Health Check-In (color)

From Frank Bush: Here is one more picture about Health check-in. This one is in color. Looking at this I got to wondering how many people know the story behind this practice.

For the first 5 years that I was associated with BCSC, there was no health check-in. Over a couple of those years, we had to take a sizable number of campers to doctors in Greenville for treatment of a number of ills. At the end of 1959, I got word that one of the doctors (who will go unnamed, but he was the chairman of Bond County Health Dept.), was talking about the camp being shut down for health reasons. That fall, when the camp committee (made up mainly of ministers involved in camp) met, I told them of this doctor's comment. We discussed many options– more frequent checks on our water supply, a study of the meal-preparations, etc. Finally, we discussed the possibility that some of these illnesses were being "brought in" by the campers themselves. So, as a result, we started the health check-in practice. To my knowledge only a couple of campers were refused registration during these check-ins, but a couple of years later I was in a conversation with the unnamed doctor and he congratulated us on curbing the camp's health problem. I told him what we had done and he confirmed that he had considered closing the camp down that year. So now you know the rest of the story.