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ITEM 3 · MIXED — THE NEGATIVE HALF SETTLED; THE COUNTY SUCCESSION NAMED AS THE RESIDUE
The checklist wants the office's own course — first officer to county department, the regime at work in its own tables; for the town half the record is a settled negative, and for the county half this run fixes the present and names what it could not carry. The town half stands as Health & Care proved it: no Walkerton board of health exists in the portions of the town code searched, and no town health officer ever sat here — public health on this ground has always been the county's and the state's, administered from South Bend. Joseph County Department of Health seats at 227 West Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend, and its health officer as of November 2026 is Michelle Migliore, DO (Health & Care, dug to the holder under the depth standard). What this run could not carry is the succession between the county's first health organization in the nineteenth century and that present seat — the first county health officer's name and date, the office's passage from part-time physician-officer to a full department, and its own published tables at work across the twentieth century stand in the department's own reports and the county's records, not in any source this seat reached. That residue is a named gap with its settler, printed in this run's note (GAP candidate: the Department of Health's own annual reports and officer succession, St. Joseph County records). The office's regime as this town experiences it — restaurant and septic inspection, vital records held at the county, the orders of 2020–22 below — is the county regime, and the branch prints it as such rather than inventing a town office the record refuses to supply.
Principal sources: Health & Care (the town-board negative and the county department's present seat and officer, as of November 2026); the county department's own reports — named as the residue's settler, not reached in this run.