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POINTER-PLUS: A COUNTY OFFICE; ITS TOWNSHIP FOOTPRINT IS ORDERS AND RECORDS
The county's health governance begins as an incident of its seat's incorporation, and reaches this township as orders and as paper. At South Bend's organisation as a city in 1865, its council elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy as the city's first Board of Health (Chapman); Chapman prints no township or county health officer for the era. The state regime's machinery is what touches this ground in the proven record: the 1918 closure telegram ran to the secretaries of the county boards of health (a St. Joseph County board existed and was the order's local arm), and the state board's tables feed the 1920s county disease-rate series (above). The modern county department's course, from its own annual reports (in.gov/localhealth): Health Officer Thomas A. Felger, M.D. (to 26 September 2014); Dale D. Deardorff, M.D., interim then Health Officer (27 September 2014 – 19 October 2015); Luis Galup, M.D. (from 19 October 2015); Robert M. Einterz, M.D., who held the office through the COVID orders of 2020 (next-but-one article); and Dr. Michelle Migliore, welcomed as the new Health Officer in the board's minutes of 26 June 2024. The department's vital-records division holds the county's birth and death books — its June 2024 minutes note the restoration of 128 books of vital records dating back to 1882 — which is precisely the settler archive for this section's uncounted tolls. The township footprint, stated whole: (a) the 1918 closure order's local execution, (b) the 2020 public-health orders, which by their terms ran "throughout St. Joseph County," and (c) vital records. The first county health officer's name and date, and any township-level health officer for Liberty Township, are unreached (settler in the note).
Chapman (1880), city-organisation chapter; St. Joseph County Health Department annual reports and board minutes (in.gov/localhealth), June 2024 minutes for the vital-records restoration.