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First Bimnial Report 183 wasted every year there by sickness, and New York is no worse off than other States of the Union. These lives fall short ten years each of what they should be. So in England, also, we read the important truth, that in the healthy districts of the kingdom persons who reach the age of twenty years pass on to the good old age of three score and three years and nearly a half; while in the general districts death comes within forty five j'^ears. The annual money loss of this single death record, coming from ignorance, neglect, and crime, is stated at nearly $50,000,000, besides the loss from impairment of health and from poverty among those not positively dead. When it is known that in small-pox, isolation and vaccination provide a certain cure for a loathsome disease, the existence of which is concealed where it notoriously is, the law or its officers are at fault. When it is also known that bad air produces bodily and mental disease, and that proper ventilation, heating and water supply are remedial measures, it is the duty of the law put in practice to point out and remove the evil. The law, in some of our cities at least, prescribes where houses shall be built, of brick or stone only, and if it is a wise law may not the construction and drainage of dwellings and work-shops also be regulated by law? Mr. Edwin Chadwick says that by following out a correct principle three houses may be well drained at the present cost of one, and Mr. Edward Atkinson, also good authority, declares that unsafe buildings cost more to construct than fire-proof buildings. It is proposed in England to guarantee dwellings as safe to live in on the score of health, and simply by evidences of proper construction and drainage. When sewer gas poisons the blood and produces dysentery and malaria in other forms, who shall condemn any proper law intended to prevent poison and self-inflicted murder? So in regard to adulterations of food. Take, for example, the simple article of candy, much of which is reported to be made from grape sugar, glucose and terra alba; the latter
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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 |
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Language | English |
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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 |
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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). |
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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 | 183 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | First Bimnial Report 183 wasted every year there by sickness, and New York is no worse off than other States of the Union. These lives fall short ten years each of what they should be. So in England, also, we read the important truth, that in the healthy districts of the kingdom persons who reach the age of twenty years pass on to the good old age of three score and three years and nearly a half; while in the general districts death comes within forty five j'^ears. The annual money loss of this single death record, coming from ignorance, neglect, and crime, is stated at nearly $50,000,000, besides the loss from impairment of health and from poverty among those not positively dead. When it is known that in small-pox, isolation and vaccination provide a certain cure for a loathsome disease, the existence of which is concealed where it notoriously is, the law or its officers are at fault. When it is also known that bad air produces bodily and mental disease, and that proper ventilation, heating and water supply are remedial measures, it is the duty of the law put in practice to point out and remove the evil. The law, in some of our cities at least, prescribes where houses shall be built, of brick or stone only, and if it is a wise law may not the construction and drainage of dwellings and work-shops also be regulated by law? Mr. Edwin Chadwick says that by following out a correct principle three houses may be well drained at the present cost of one, and Mr. Edward Atkinson, also good authority, declares that unsafe buildings cost more to construct than fire-proof buildings. It is proposed in England to guarantee dwellings as safe to live in on the score of health, and simply by evidences of proper construction and drainage. When sewer gas poisons the blood and produces dysentery and malaria in other forms, who shall condemn any proper law intended to prevent poison and self-inflicted murder? So in regard to adulterations of food. Take, for example, the simple article of candy, much of which is reported to be made from grape sugar, glucose and terra alba; the latter |
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Article Title | What the State Owes the People - Public Health is Public Wealth |
Article Author | Brooks, Erastus |
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