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FIFTEENTH BIEJs^NIAL REPORT 73 The adoption of the model registration law by our State requiring the registration of both births and deaths, and its satisfactory enforcement, which is yet to be accomplished, will make our State the twenty-sixth State in the Union to adopt the registration of deaths, and the thirteenth or fourteenth State to adopt the registration of births. Another important piece of legislation enacted by the General Assembly was the General Amendments Bill, which amended several sections of the old health law and increased the appropriation to the State Board of Health $10,000 annually. The new work made possible through the increase in the appropriation is by far the most important feature of this last piece of legislation. Another change in the General Amendments Bill, which is important enough to deserve mention in this connection, has to do with the title of the county health official: Where counties employ physicians to give a pinch of their time to treating diseases, such a physician will be known officially as the county physician. On the other hand, where the county employs a man to give three hundred and sixty-five days a year of his time to the health work of the county, such an employee will be known as the county health officer. This official distinction between county physician and county health officer, replacing the old term ''county superintendent of health," that applied to both the man employed for part of his time and the man employed for his full time, is important. If a county employs a man for part of his time to treat its sick convicts and prisoners in the convict camp and jail, and its dependents in the county home, and to make one or two post mortem examinations a year for the coroner, and one or two commitments to the insane asylums of the State, such an employee has no more right to the title of health officer than has the sheriff or jailer of the county. His work is that of a physician treating the least important part of the population. Hereafter, by statute, he will be know^n as the county physician, and the people of such a county will not be misled by the term ''county superintendent of health" into believing that their county is doing health work. Where, on the other hand, the county employs a man to give his entire time to the health interests of the county, ninety-five per cent of his duties will have to do with the prevention of diseases. His work as a physician, that is in treating and attempting to cure disease, will be of little consequence as compared with his work as a health officer in the prevention of disease. Hence such an official will be known hereafter as the county health officer. For the important legislation outlined above the health officers and health interests of North Carolina, and the people of the State generally are indebted especially to Representatives R. R. Williams, of Buncombe County; B. T. Cox, of Pitt County; J. R. Gordon, of Guilford County, and to Senators F. P. Hobgood, of Guilford County, and I. B. Evans, of Bladen County, whose able leadership had much to do with the favorable attitude of the last General Assembly to public health work. The Society will recall that at its meeting in Hendersonville last year it passed a resolution asking Hon. John M. Faison, and our other representatives in Congress and Senate of the United States, to use their official influence in securing some favorable action from our National Government directed to the control of pellagra. As you are aware, Dr. Faison, a member of this Society and representing the Third Congressional District, has been successful in obtaining an appropriation of $45,000 for the study of pellagra. Dr.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-02: Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
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. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913-1914 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-015 |
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 | 15 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 73 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
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. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913-1914 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-015-0077 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news |
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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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
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 | 15 |
Page Number | 73 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | FIFTEENTH BIEJs^NIAL REPORT 73 The adoption of the model registration law by our State requiring the registration of both births and deaths, and its satisfactory enforcement, which is yet to be accomplished, will make our State the twenty-sixth State in the Union to adopt the registration of deaths, and the thirteenth or fourteenth State to adopt the registration of births. Another important piece of legislation enacted by the General Assembly was the General Amendments Bill, which amended several sections of the old health law and increased the appropriation to the State Board of Health $10,000 annually. The new work made possible through the increase in the appropriation is by far the most important feature of this last piece of legislation. Another change in the General Amendments Bill, which is important enough to deserve mention in this connection, has to do with the title of the county health official: Where counties employ physicians to give a pinch of their time to treating diseases, such a physician will be known officially as the county physician. On the other hand, where the county employs a man to give three hundred and sixty-five days a year of his time to the health work of the county, such an employee will be known as the county health officer. This official distinction between county physician and county health officer, replacing the old term ''county superintendent of health" that applied to both the man employed for part of his time and the man employed for his full time, is important. If a county employs a man for part of his time to treat its sick convicts and prisoners in the convict camp and jail, and its dependents in the county home, and to make one or two post mortem examinations a year for the coroner, and one or two commitments to the insane asylums of the State, such an employee has no more right to the title of health officer than has the sheriff or jailer of the county. His work is that of a physician treating the least important part of the population. Hereafter, by statute, he will be know^n as the county physician, and the people of such a county will not be misled by the term ''county superintendent of health" into believing that their county is doing health work. Where, on the other hand, the county employs a man to give his entire time to the health interests of the county, ninety-five per cent of his duties will have to do with the prevention of diseases. His work as a physician, that is in treating and attempting to cure disease, will be of little consequence as compared with his work as a health officer in the prevention of disease. Hence such an official will be known hereafter as the county health officer. For the important legislation outlined above the health officers and health interests of North Carolina, and the people of the State generally are indebted especially to Representatives R. R. Williams, of Buncombe County; B. T. Cox, of Pitt County; J. R. Gordon, of Guilford County, and to Senators F. P. Hobgood, of Guilford County, and I. B. Evans, of Bladen County, whose able leadership had much to do with the favorable attitude of the last General Assembly to public health work. The Society will recall that at its meeting in Hendersonville last year it passed a resolution asking Hon. John M. Faison, and our other representatives in Congress and Senate of the United States, to use their official influence in securing some favorable action from our National Government directed to the control of pellagra. As you are aware, Dr. Faison, a member of this Society and representing the Third Congressional District, has been successful in obtaining an appropriation of $45,000 for the study of pellagra. Dr. |
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