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180 ^ North Carolina Board of Health. decajj and for a thousand years and more books and learning, and in a certain sense, deeds of practical cliarity, were confined to the monks. It was lon^ a forgotten lesson O among general teachings that "cleanliness was next to godliness," and therefore a very close neighbor to all kinds of practical piety. Hence, and clear up to and far into this nineteenth century, came agues, malaria, smalhpox, cholera, scurvy, plagues and pestilences, and all the inherited ills of life to which, from negligence and ignorance, flesh and tblood are exposed. Happily for the world public opinion .is now aroused in the interest of the public health, and the subject reaches us to day in the three-fold form of economy;, . thrift and morals. If, as alleged by way of criticism, the health service is costly, it can be proved to be the best possible investment •to meet the cost. We begin in the New York State Board i;this year with an appropriation of $15,000, and it may be •more or less hereafter. The City Board of New York asks for the year 1881 the sum of ^253,363, and it is money so well invested thatin buildings, institutions, in savinghealth and lives, it will save more money to the city, in income and • taxes, than any investment of the most skillful financier in Wall street. If to this result the money value of life is count-■ ed, the five or six thousand lives yearly saved will run into some millions of dollars. In Great Britain they place this . kind of value upon human existence, just as we say in the United States that the cash value of every able-bodied im-.migrant from the Old World is §1,000 There Dr. Farr— perhaps the highest authority in the Old World—placed, in his reports as the registrar-general of the government, the money value of each man, woman and child in the United Kingdom at §795. The neglected preventable deaths in England and Wales during the school period, apart from ■infant mortality, makes a loss to the state of $95,000,000 ! The British life insurance companies and friendly societies .also give the money value of work lost by sickness. For
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1879-1880 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-001 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | This collection is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program (North Carolina History of Health Digital Library). |
Volume Number | 1 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 180 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1879-1880 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-001-0188 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Filename | biennialreportof01nort_0188.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | This collection is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program (North Carolina History of Health Digital Library). |
Volume Number | 1 |
Page Number | 180 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 180 ^ North Carolina Board of Health. decajj and for a thousand years and more books and learning, and in a certain sense, deeds of practical cliarity, were confined to the monks. It was lon^ a forgotten lesson O among general teachings that "cleanliness was next to godliness" and therefore a very close neighbor to all kinds of practical piety. Hence, and clear up to and far into this nineteenth century, came agues, malaria, smalhpox, cholera, scurvy, plagues and pestilences, and all the inherited ills of life to which, from negligence and ignorance, flesh and tblood are exposed. Happily for the world public opinion .is now aroused in the interest of the public health, and the subject reaches us to day in the three-fold form of economy;, . thrift and morals. If, as alleged by way of criticism, the health service is costly, it can be proved to be the best possible investment •to meet the cost. We begin in the New York State Board i;this year with an appropriation of $15,000, and it may be •more or less hereafter. The City Board of New York asks for the year 1881 the sum of ^253,363, and it is money so well invested thatin buildings, institutions, in savinghealth and lives, it will save more money to the city, in income and • taxes, than any investment of the most skillful financier in Wall street. If to this result the money value of life is count-■ ed, the five or six thousand lives yearly saved will run into some millions of dollars. In Great Britain they place this . kind of value upon human existence, just as we say in the United States that the cash value of every able-bodied im-.migrant from the Old World is §1,000 There Dr. Farr— perhaps the highest authority in the Old World—placed, in his reports as the registrar-general of the government, the money value of each man, woman and child in the United Kingdom at §795. The neglected preventable deaths in England and Wales during the school period, apart from ■infant mortality, makes a loss to the state of $95,000,000 ! The British life insurance companies and friendly societies .also give the money value of work lost by sickness. For |
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Article Title | What the State Owes the People - Public Health is Public Wealth |
Article Author | Brooks, Erastus |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-01-001 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-01 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2375274 |
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