A Health Survey of Hancock County West Virginia...

...Directed by Francina McMahon, Field Secretary, West Virginia Tuberculosis Association, and Financed by The Hancock County Tuberculosis League (cover title)

New Cumberland, WV: Hancock County Tuberculosis League, (1923).

Wraps, 8vo; 29, (1)pp. About Very Good with light overall soil and edgewear to wraps including a small chip at the rear upper edge, faint stain to rear wrap, pencil smudging to front. Contents are bright and clean. Illustrated with halftone photographs and a bold graphic inside the rear cover linking good citizenship with not spitting, opposite an evocative depiction of "The Spirit of the Tuberculosis Cross."

Content focuses on student health in Hancock County, West Virginia, described on the inner wrap as "The most northern and the smallest county in West Virginia," home to the Weirton Steel Mill, then the largest between Pittsburgh and Wheeling. Many of which were in the early stages of development as WV industry boomed in places like Weirton, where schools are pictured still under construction.

Statistics are reported at each grade level for each school for deficient teeth, vision, tonsils and thyroids, and underweight students. The introduction notes privacy concerns for more detailed reporting given the small size of many schools: "Were we to say there are two mentally deficient children, two with scabies, three with tuberculosis and four normal... we might just as well give the names of the children." They do give numbers for the county at large ("There are seven children who are noticeably mentally deficient. A few show symptoms of inherited syphilis, less than a dozen with scabies, an unusually small number with pediculosis, but many cases of impetigo"), and make recommendations to address widespread issues.

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