Health - Historical Notes

The following summary is included herein for reference purposes.

1. Private Acts of 1921, Chapter 591, stated that hereafter in Cannon County the Commissioners or authorities under whom the poor houses, poor farms, and workhouse were operated, were directed to employ jail physician, or a County Health Officer, to perform and render all medical services and attention required for the inmates of any and all of the institutions named above.  The physician would be paid a reasonable amount for his services which would be passed on and appropriated by the Quarterly County Court.