William P. Richardson

Life and Orange County connections

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1. February 1936 Dr. W. P. Richardson becomes health officer of the district serving Orange Richardson followed Dr. M. H. Rourk, who left in February 1936, and served until Dr. O. D. Garvin replaced him in 1944. People: William P. RichardsonLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 216
2. February 1936 Grace Beatty appointed supervising nurse of the district health unit Acting district health officer Dr. William P. Richardson appointed Grace Beatty, who held a master's degree in public health nursing from Columbia, as supervising nurse under an enlarged program funded by Social Security money. By July 1936 the Orange-Person staff of 11 included staff nurses Agnes Tolbert in Chapel Hill and Ruth O'Briant and Lieotta Hall in Roxboro. People: William P. RichardsonDigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1936, p. 3 (Nurse Engaged)
3. May 1936 Health officer reports on the preschool clinics in Chapel Hill and Carrboro The health department finished its round of preschool clinics, with 25 children at the Chapel Hill clinic and 34 at Carrboro. Health officer W. P. Richardson credited a committee of women with much of the success and reported that 56 correctible defects were found among 38 of the 59 children examined.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1936, page 1 (The Pre-School Clinics)
4. June–July 1936 First field training course for North Carolina public health workers held in the Orange-Person District A month-long field training course for 29 new public health workers (14 nurses, 6 sanitary officers, 4 sanitary engineers and 5 health officers), described as the first in North Carolina, ended in Chapel Hill in early July 1936 under Dr. William P. Richardson. The Orange-Person and Durham health departments then ran as a joint field training center, and by July 1937 it had trained 109 workers. People: William P. RichardsonDigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 10, 1936, p. 6 (Training Course Ends)
5. August 1936 District health department holds midwife classes across Orange County Classes for midwives were held at Efland and Hillsboro and began for those in and near Chapel Hill at the health department offices, with attendance required before a permit to practice would be issued. Health officer W. P. Richardson said 17 percent of births in the county were attended by midwives, against 31 percent statewide.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1936, page 5 (classes for midwives)
6. October 1937 Chatham County joins the Orange-Person Health District District health officer Dr. William P. Richardson announced that Chatham County had joined the Orange-Person Health District, which would provide a physician, a nurse and a sanitary officer for the new county. The State Board of Health had kept a nurse in Chatham for the past year with U.S. Children's Bureau funds. People: William P. RichardsonDigitalNC: Person County Times, October 28, 1937, p. 8 (Health Service Improved)
7. February 1940 District health officer reports one of the district's best years for diphtheria Although diphtheria was widespread in North Carolina in 1939, the Orange-Person-Chatham district recorded only 18 cases. Health officer W. P. Richardson credited immunization of children under six, warned that immunizations had fallen off over the past twelve months, and urged parents to have young children immunized.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 9, 1940, page 1 (Less Diphtheria Here)
8. June 15, 1944 District health officer reports the season's typhoid cases Dr. William P. Richardson, district health officer, reported two confirmed cases of typhoid fever in the district in the past two months, one in Chatham County and one in Person County, with a suspected case in Person County and indirect reports of two cases in Orange County that health officials had not been able to confirm.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, June 15, 1944, page 1 (Dr. Richardson)