Milam County Health Department
SPECIAL CLINIC FOR BACK-TO-SCHOOL SHOTS THROUGH AUGUST
CAMERON OFFICE:
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY 8AM-5PM(NORMAL HOURS)
TUESDAY & THURSDAY 8AM-NOON & 1PM-5PM(SPECIAL CLINIC HOURS)
ROCKDALE OFFICE:
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY 9AM-NOON & 1PM-4PM(SPECIAL CLINIC HOURS)
TUESDAY & THURSDAY 9AM-NOON & 1PM-4PM(NORMAL HOURS)
These special clinic hours are specifically for the children needing immunizations for school. (Pre-K, Kindergarten, 7th Grade and college)
We will only have these special days and hours for the month of August.
On these days, we will not be administering any vaccines to children under 4 years old or adults over 18 years old.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT HISTORY
Everyone knows that a health department exists for the good of the people, and not the people for the health department.
This theory can best be explained when we go back in time to a little over 67 years ago. Here we find Rev. J. P. Love, Rector of the small Episcopal church in Cameron, Texas, setting aside a little room in his church to be used as the headquarters for a new project he was instigating----- this project being Milam County’s blessing in disguise—plans for a nurse to stay with the Loves, work from her office in the church, and to introduce health education to the City of Cameron and the out-lying neighborhoods. This idea of health education proved to be so popular the Milam County begin paying the nurse’s salary as well as mileage for her car….and as all good stories go, approximately two years later plans were completed to organize a county-wide health department The responsibility for this decision came from the County Commissioners’ Court consisting of Judge Jeff T. Kemp, and Commissioners E. G. Stiles, E. L. McGuyer, B. M. McMillion and Grady Stidham; and from the Cameron City Council whose members at that time were Mayor Charles C. Smith, Sr., and Councilmen E. O. Schiller, Roy Griffith, Bob Terry, August Horstmann, Sam McDermott, and City Secretary Dan Tyson. Thus it came about that in July of 1940 the Milam County Health Department came into existence with Dr. Roy G. Reed as Director.
On October 1, 1940, the Milam Unit was joined by the neighboring Robertson County to form a Bi-County Unit. These two units worked together, without respect to boundary lines, until June 1st, 1945, when Robertson County withdrew leaving the Milam County Health Department as it is known today.
The Milam County Health Department was first housed in the basement at 116 Gillis Street. It remained at this location until 1961 and was moved to its present location which is 209 South Houston St. (It was numbered 113 Houston St. in 1961).
Since its origination, there have been many directors:
Dr. Roy G. Reed – July 1, 1940 – September 30, 1942
Dr. T. E. Crump – October 1, 1942 to May 31, 1946
Dr. Roy G. Reed – for the month of June 1946
Dr. M. L. Fuller – July 1, 1946 to January 31, 1947
Dr. E. S. Freeman – February 1, 1947 to July 1, 1953
Dr. John B. Bryson – September 4, 1953 to December 31, 1957
Dr. T. E. Crump – January 1958 to July, 1965
Dr. Clifford G. Swift – August 1, 1965 to December, 1973
Dr. E. Douglas Perrin – January 24, 1974 to August, 1996
Dr. Phillip Young - September 1, 1996 to July 31, 1997
Rod Holcombe – November 11, 1997 to August 31, 2006
Patsy Gaines – September 1, 2006 to Present
For telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses, please visit our Contacts page!
MISSION STATEMENT
OUR MISSION IS TO INCREASE IMMUNIZATION LEVELS AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE CITIZENS BY PROVIDING SERVICES, VACCINES, EDUCATION, DISEASE INTERVENTION, AND ASSISTANCE IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTEERISM AND TEAMWORK BETWEEN THE PUBLIC, PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE SECTORS. WE ACCOMPLISH THIS WHILE BEING ACCOUNTABLE TO FEDERAL AND STATE GUIDELINES AND THE TAXPAYERS OF THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.
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