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204 ap1>endix. I could quote one family. Mr. Stephen Thrower's suffered greatly, his bill averaging liigh up, with narrow escape of his sick from death. I had to interdict the use of well water or to have the same boiled before marked improvement became noticeable. I pleaded with :\Ir. Thrower to get a driven well, and assured him of perfect immunity from future trouble and expense. He did so, and now, instead of monthly visits and ])ig bills, I am never called save occasionally in trivial troubles. Again, Hon. D. P. McEachin's family experienced the same benefit, also the families of Hon. Ed. Purcell, Mr. T. I. McXeill, ^Ir. Xatt McPhauls, Mr. Lige Gibson, :\Ir. J. B. Weatherby, and many others. One noticeable case few months back : Wife and children and father suffering from malarial ills near the Cumberland county line, medicines affording but temporary relief—cases chronic and othce patients. Upon my first visit I visited his well, and found his water polluted by the nastiness of his yard, foul in smell, of bitter taste, and milky in color. I called Mr. Graham's attention to the source of his troubles. He had a driven well put in use at once, and to-day t he sallow, dejected, woe-begone patients are bright, with buoyant spirits, good appetites, clear, healthy skin, under pure water and precious little physic. I venture the assertion that the driven wells in Robeson county have saved thousands of dollars and many lives since their introduction. One case near Fremont, Wayne county: Mr. M. T. Johnson before the driven wells had much malaria; since the use of water from his driven well no malarial troubles. I could give you much personal experience as practising physician of eighteen years in Eastern Xorth Carolina and this section as to the marked benefit to health from change to drinking water from driven wells. Facts sustain your reasoning. '*One more case sustaining your reasoning: At the John Gilchrist place, in the county of Robeson, occupied in 1889 and 1890 by Mr. Archie .McQueen, wife and seven children, malarial fever of malignant type prevailed; four of family sick; duration of attacks six to eight weeks; visits every day; every sanitary measure exercised; water from well boiled; patients recovered, to be taken again every fall; father not disposed to have a driven well, and the place finally abandoned. From the great amount of sickness of this family and the death of a Mr. McLeod, who moved in after the McQueens left, the place was looked upon as a grave-yard, and a party from South Carolina—one Mr. Quick—bein^ offered the place at a low price, declined to purchase before consulting me as to the health surroundings. Quick, wife and one child now occupy the place, and enjoy freedom from malarial troubles by virtue of the driven well used at my suggestion. So it is all over this section. Where the driven well is used there is no sickness from malaria.'*
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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 | 1893-1894 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005 |
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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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Fixed Title * | Page 204 |
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 | 1893-1894 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005-0210 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
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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Sponsor | 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). |
Volume Number | 5 |
Page Number | 204 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 204 ap1>endix. I could quote one family. Mr. Stephen Thrower's suffered greatly, his bill averaging liigh up, with narrow escape of his sick from death. I had to interdict the use of well water or to have the same boiled before marked improvement became noticeable. I pleaded with :\Ir. Thrower to get a driven well, and assured him of perfect immunity from future trouble and expense. He did so, and now, instead of monthly visits and ])ig bills, I am never called save occasionally in trivial troubles. Again, Hon. D. P. McEachin's family experienced the same benefit, also the families of Hon. Ed. Purcell, Mr. T. I. McXeill, ^Ir. Xatt McPhauls, Mr. Lige Gibson, :\Ir. J. B. Weatherby, and many others. One noticeable case few months back : Wife and children and father suffering from malarial ills near the Cumberland county line, medicines affording but temporary relief—cases chronic and othce patients. Upon my first visit I visited his well, and found his water polluted by the nastiness of his yard, foul in smell, of bitter taste, and milky in color. I called Mr. Graham's attention to the source of his troubles. He had a driven well put in use at once, and to-day t he sallow, dejected, woe-begone patients are bright, with buoyant spirits, good appetites, clear, healthy skin, under pure water and precious little physic. I venture the assertion that the driven wells in Robeson county have saved thousands of dollars and many lives since their introduction. One case near Fremont, Wayne county: Mr. M. T. Johnson before the driven wells had much malaria; since the use of water from his driven well no malarial troubles. I could give you much personal experience as practising physician of eighteen years in Eastern Xorth Carolina and this section as to the marked benefit to health from change to drinking water from driven wells. Facts sustain your reasoning. '*One more case sustaining your reasoning: At the John Gilchrist place, in the county of Robeson, occupied in 1889 and 1890 by Mr. Archie .McQueen, wife and seven children, malarial fever of malignant type prevailed; four of family sick; duration of attacks six to eight weeks; visits every day; every sanitary measure exercised; water from well boiled; patients recovered, to be taken again every fall; father not disposed to have a driven well, and the place finally abandoned. From the great amount of sickness of this family and the death of a Mr. McLeod, who moved in after the McQueens left, the place was looked upon as a grave-yard, and a party from South Carolina—one Mr. Quick—bein^ offered the place at a low price, declined to purchase before consulting me as to the health surroundings. Quick, wife and one child now occupy the place, and enjoy freedom from malarial troubles by virtue of the driven well used at my suggestion. So it is all over this section. Where the driven well is used there is no sickness from malaria.'* |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
Article Author | Lewis, Richard H. |
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