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Welcome to What's In My Back Yard
WIMBY is a interactive mapping application with tools that allow users to identify potential health risk and quality of life features that might affect their quality of life, based on proximity to your home or other locations.
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Download the 2009 Annual Report. Check the archives for previous reports.
HEALTH ALERT: What's In My Back Yard
WIMBY is a interactive mapping application with tools that allow users to identify potential health risk and quality of life features that might affect their quality of life, based on proximity to your home or other locations.
http://maps.elkhartcountyindiana.com/wimbyhelp/index.htm
HEALTH ALERT: METH HOUSES UNFIT TO LIVE IN
Once police find a meth lab in a home, it can no longer be lived in until it has been properly cleaned and inspected. Please see the article below for the listing of dwellings unfit to live in located in Elkhart County.
There is more information located in the left margin under Environmental Health Services page.
HEALTH ALERT: EASTERN EQUINE ENCHEPHALITIS
INDIANAPOLIS – State officials warn residents of the state’s most northern counties Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) is a concern in their area. Health officials report EEE has been identified in mosquitoes in Elkhart County.
Dr. House is urging people to protect themselves by:
• Avoiding being outdoors from dusk to dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.
• Applying insect repellent containing DEET, picaradin, or oil of lemon eucalyptus to clothes and exposed skin when outdoors.
• Wearing shoes, socks, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt when outdoors from dusk to dawn.
• Making sure all windows and doors have screens, and that all screens are in good repair.
• Using mosquito netting when sleeping outdoors or in an unscreened structure.
"Dedicated to a Healthful Life and Environment"
Elkhart County Health Department began in 1949. The first staff included a part time Health Commissioner, Public Health Nurses who visited in schools and homes, Sanitarians who inspected restaurants and dairy farms, plus Vital Record Clerks who kept birth and death records. Today the department consists of approximately 100 employees working in five divisions.
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