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41 TRANSACTIONS MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHJJCAROLINa. Conjoint Session. The President announced that the hour had arrived for the Conjoint Session with the Board of Health. The President of the Board of Health, Dr. H. T. Bahnson, took the Chair and stated that after quiet was resumed the Conjoint Session would come to order. He said it was his duty to announce' the lamentable fact that the Board of Health of North Carolina is still occupying the anomalous position which it occupied at its incipiency—a regularly organized Board without executive authority, appointed by the Legislature as an advisory Board on all matters pertaining to hygiene and the preservation of health. The services of such a Board are infrequently, one may say almost never, called upon, and we therefore have very little, if any, progress to report. To the few faithful wTho remain to hear the discussions and deliberations of this Board, I would like to make one or two suggestions : In the first place, the anomalous position of our Board as a simply advisory Board, without executive functions, has exposed us, and with us the medical profession of North Carolina, to what might properly be called a slight by the action of the last Legisl ture in determining the character of books on medical and hygienic subjects which should be used in our public schools, and I hope the matter will have a limited discussion, at any rate. I refer to the adoption, under the influence of the so-called " Woman's Christian Temperance Union," of a book on the influence of alcohol on the human system. The teaching of this book must be forced upon the youngest children. He regretted the ignorance of the State Legislature in entrusting the mental hygiene of our children to the Secretary of a body like that. It should have been referred to the State Board of Health, certainly to the conjoint action of that Board and this Society. Another thing he wished to speak of was the want of interest which pervades the State on the important subject of health preservation and hygiene. It has been suggested to inaugurate a system of "missionary" sanitary conventions to be held in different parts of the State. Unfortunately, a movement of this sort must be entirely a labor of love, owing to the smallness of the fund at the command of the Board. The third and last point to which your attention is asked is to
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1891 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-038 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 38 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1891 |
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Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 38 |
Page Number | 41 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 41 TRANSACTIONS MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHJJCAROLINa. Conjoint Session. The President announced that the hour had arrived for the Conjoint Session with the Board of Health. The President of the Board of Health, Dr. H. T. Bahnson, took the Chair and stated that after quiet was resumed the Conjoint Session would come to order. He said it was his duty to announce' the lamentable fact that the Board of Health of North Carolina is still occupying the anomalous position which it occupied at its incipiency—a regularly organized Board without executive authority, appointed by the Legislature as an advisory Board on all matters pertaining to hygiene and the preservation of health. The services of such a Board are infrequently, one may say almost never, called upon, and we therefore have very little, if any, progress to report. To the few faithful wTho remain to hear the discussions and deliberations of this Board, I would like to make one or two suggestions : In the first place, the anomalous position of our Board as a simply advisory Board, without executive functions, has exposed us, and with us the medical profession of North Carolina, to what might properly be called a slight by the action of the last Legisl ture in determining the character of books on medical and hygienic subjects which should be used in our public schools, and I hope the matter will have a limited discussion, at any rate. I refer to the adoption, under the influence of the so-called " Woman's Christian Temperance Union" of a book on the influence of alcohol on the human system. The teaching of this book must be forced upon the youngest children. He regretted the ignorance of the State Legislature in entrusting the mental hygiene of our children to the Secretary of a body like that. It should have been referred to the State Board of Health, certainly to the conjoint action of that Board and this Society. Another thing he wished to speak of was the want of interest which pervades the State on the important subject of health preservation and hygiene. It has been suggested to inaugurate a system of "missionary" sanitary conventions to be held in different parts of the State. Unfortunately, a movement of this sort must be entirely a labor of love, owing to the smallness of the fund at the command of the Board. The third and last point to which your attention is asked is to |
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