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the past few years with the advent of cattle guards, jokingly described by Mrs. Thornton as the biggest improvement in her 36 years as public health nurse. With cattle guards, she no longer had to stop her car every few feet to get out and open and shut gates when she paid home visits, Mrs. Thornton explained.
In a more serious vein, she pointed to the reduction in poverty and the increase in living standards as the most important improvements during her service. “Most everyone has electricity and running water now. When I started, very few of the low income families had either.”
In the 1950s, Rappahannock people suffered from tuberculosis, polio and typhoid fever, Mrs. Thornton continued. “They’ve disappeared now. I haven’t had a case of tuberculois in six or eight years,” she noted. Their disappearance leaves time for “preventive medicine, which is what public health is all about,” Mrs. Thornton added.
That preventive medicine includes well-baby visits, immunization for children against diseases which once were killers, and nutrition programs for mothers-to-be and
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