7.5  Nurse and Dental Reports, 1935- 1955

  • Nurse Report for August, 1935
    • Plans to establish loan closets, where sickroom supplies were to be stored and loaned in case of illness.  
    • Note that Board of Supervisors denied a Dental Clinic, due to lack of funds.
    • Discussion about providing milk and hot lunches, as well as cod liver oil to underweight children.
  • Nurse Report for December, 1936
    • Discussion of diphtheria and smallpox vaccinations.
  • Nurse Report for May, 1937
    • About health lectures to white and colored students.
  • Undated weight range charts
  • Nurse Report for August 1, 1936 – June 20, 1937
    • Covers visits to white and colored schools.
  • Annual Report – Public Health Nurse, July 1, 1937-June 30, 1938.  There were 29 white and 20 colored schools.  Report on Visits and health findings.  Nurse visited 13 colored schools as often as could be done and 27 white schools.
  • Dental Clinic Reports -- July 1938 – June 1939
  • Dental care for students was often controversial in Loudoun.   As early as 1926, 785 petitioners, including Oscar Emerick, asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a Dental Clinic for the school system but the petition was defeated on April 30, 1926 by a vote of four to two, based on the stated objection of one Supervisor who apparently did not wish to raise a levy of one cent for $100 of property valuation.   We don’t have this petition in the archives; but it was reported in Loudoun Times Mirror and according to the petitioners, “it is very much to be regretted the Board gave the impression of antagonism and indifference.  We certainly felt that we had been treated like a bunch of suspects – if not criminals – rather than as a group of decent citizens making a courteous petition for the supervisors to do something for a group of people who look to us for help – our little children (Mayers 1926).” 
  • It’s worth noting that David Campbell Myers, who wrote the article about this issue, was an important figure in Loudoun.   He was the 17th Rector of the Emanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, and would become the longest serving in their history.  In addition, from 1929 - 1940: Rector Myers served as president of the local Parent Teacher Association and rallied influential newcomer parishioners such as General Billy Mitchell and his wife Elizabeth to help sustain the financially strapped public schools during the Great Depression (Emmanuel Episcopal Church 2011).
  • In 1935 a dental clinic was also denied for lack of funds, though one appeared in 1938 that supported both white and black students.  See Catalog 7.3 Nurses’ Folder 1935-41.
  • In 1955, the Black Teachers noticed that only white students were benefiting from dental appointments from the School Dentist; so they complained to Oscar Emerick who promised to remedy the situation, this fell under the purview of the Health Department.  See Catalog 4.2.   White Principals Meeting of Dec 6, 1955 Colored Principal’s Meeting of Nov 14, 1955.
  • Nurse Report for 1943  Contains Report of County Health Officer and Nurse.