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31 Twenty-Fiftii Biennial R'eport slightly lower than 1931. The cases and deaths from diphtheria this year were also the lowest of any previous year, although progress in the elimination of these diseases has not been so satisfactory as it should have been. Deaths from pellagra continue to show a marked decline. This year is the third year of the so-called financial depression, and it is too early to record any opinion as to what effect unemployment and decreased income and rather widespread suffering may have on the health of the people of the State. It is not too much to say, how^ever, that the effect will be felt more severely by the children than by any other class of the population. The infan-t mortality this year was 66.4 per 1,000 live births. This is so far the best record the State has ever made. The maternal mortality remains high, and indications are that with decreased expenditures for maternal and infant hygiene the rates, particularly for infant deaths, will rise again, pushing the State back among those having an excessive infant death rate. Expenditures for this year for all purposes by the Board were $315,276, of which amount $262,438 represented appropriations. Tliis amount was just a little more than half of the total expenditures made by the Board of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930. 1933. The event of outstanding importance to the Board of Health this year w^as the death of Dr. C. A. Shore, which occurred on February 10. For twenty-five years Doctor Shore had been- director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene. He had built the work of the laboratory during these years up to a point where its prestige and usefulness was equal to that of any other public health laboratory in America. Doctor Shore served longer as a member of the executive staff than any other man who has ever been connected with the State Board of Health. He held the confidence and esteem of the medical profession as well as the general public to a marked degree. He was a man of extraordinary ability, and much of the success of the public health work in North Carolina may be attributed to his fine and wholesome service. Suitable tribute has been paid to Doctor Shore and recorded in other publications of the Board and of the State Medical Society. One event in this connection, however, should be recorded here, and that is that by legislative action all buildings of the State Laboratory of Hygiene are hei'einafter to be kitown as The Clarence A. Shore Laboratory, in memory of his distinctive service. A few weeks after the death of Doctor Shore, Dr. John H. Hamilton, director of County Health Work, of Vital Statistics, and of Epidemiology, was made director of the laboratory work. Doctor Hamilton, on assuming his duties as director of the Laboratory, resigned the duties of director of County Health Work and of Epidemiology, but retained, however, with the assistance of Dr. R. T. Stimpson as statistician and field director, the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Dr. D. F. Milam, a consultant assigned to the State
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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 Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1932-1934 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-025 |
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. |
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 | 25 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 26 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1932-1934 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-025-0030 |
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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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 | 25 |
Page Number | 26 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 31 Twenty-Fiftii Biennial R'eport slightly lower than 1931. The cases and deaths from diphtheria this year were also the lowest of any previous year, although progress in the elimination of these diseases has not been so satisfactory as it should have been. Deaths from pellagra continue to show a marked decline. This year is the third year of the so-called financial depression, and it is too early to record any opinion as to what effect unemployment and decreased income and rather widespread suffering may have on the health of the people of the State. It is not too much to say, how^ever, that the effect will be felt more severely by the children than by any other class of the population. The infan-t mortality this year was 66.4 per 1,000 live births. This is so far the best record the State has ever made. The maternal mortality remains high, and indications are that with decreased expenditures for maternal and infant hygiene the rates, particularly for infant deaths, will rise again, pushing the State back among those having an excessive infant death rate. Expenditures for this year for all purposes by the Board were $315,276, of which amount $262,438 represented appropriations. Tliis amount was just a little more than half of the total expenditures made by the Board of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930. 1933. The event of outstanding importance to the Board of Health this year w^as the death of Dr. C. A. Shore, which occurred on February 10. For twenty-five years Doctor Shore had been- director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene. He had built the work of the laboratory during these years up to a point where its prestige and usefulness was equal to that of any other public health laboratory in America. Doctor Shore served longer as a member of the executive staff than any other man who has ever been connected with the State Board of Health. He held the confidence and esteem of the medical profession as well as the general public to a marked degree. He was a man of extraordinary ability, and much of the success of the public health work in North Carolina may be attributed to his fine and wholesome service. Suitable tribute has been paid to Doctor Shore and recorded in other publications of the Board and of the State Medical Society. One event in this connection, however, should be recorded here, and that is that by legislative action all buildings of the State Laboratory of Hygiene are hei'einafter to be kitown as The Clarence A. Shore Laboratory, in memory of his distinctive service. A few weeks after the death of Doctor Shore, Dr. John H. Hamilton, director of County Health Work, of Vital Statistics, and of Epidemiology, was made director of the laboratory work. Doctor Hamilton, on assuming his duties as director of the Laboratory, resigned the duties of director of County Health Work and of Epidemiology, but retained, however, with the assistance of Dr. R. T. Stimpson as statistician and field director, the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Dr. D. F. Milam, a consultant assigned to the State |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-025.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-025 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-02 |
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