A Pictorial History of Public Health in South Carolina


	Hookworm was being identified as a contributor to poor health in the rural South.
	The Rockefeller sanitary commission conducted a study of school children: of the 4,695 rural schoolchildren examined, 47% gave clinical evidence of hookworm
	Funds were requested for tuberculosis control and for enforcement of pure food & drug laws.
	Financial statement: Expenditures: State Board funds $2302.25;
	Contagious disease fund $15,362.21 (only $10,000 was appropriated);
	Travel $1,000; Health Officer’s Salary $2,500; Clerk fund; $600;
	Pure Food & drug appropriation $1,000; Rockefeller commission fund $3,817.41.
	The Board’s staff included FA Coward, the Laboratory director, a chemist, and three sanitarians with the Rockefeller Commission who were all medical doctors. Prevalent diseases in 1910 included smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid and poliomyelitis.
	State Board of Health. 1911. Thirty-first Annual Report of the State Board of Health of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year 1910 to the Legislature of South Carolina. Gonzales & Bryant, state printers, Columbia, SC.