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North Carolina Board of Health 79 Chief of the Communicable Disease Control Section. This epidemiologist was employed in April 1953. In August 1953, he assumed duties as Chief of the Accident Prevention Section. This assumption of additional duties was facilitated by the assignment, by the U. S. Public Health Service, of a field epidemiologist for the period July 1953 through June 1954 to assist in disease control programs. This increase in personnel enabled the Section to carry out a number of special studies relative to contagious disease problems. Two steps seem of highest priority to insure the future of disease control. First, the salary of the Section Chief should be assimilated into the state budget since additional Federal aid reduction could result in the loss of this physician, and second, the U. S. Public Health Service should be encouraged to continue the assignment of a field epidemiologist to this state. The availability of a trained field staff of public health specialists to offer epidemic assistance to local health departments is essential to the forceful control of infectious diseases. Foremost among preventable diseases which still remain as health problems in the state is diphtheria. Traditionally, North Carolina has presented one of the worst diphtheria records in the United States. In 1948, a comprehensive review of cases of diphtheria occurring in the state was made by the Division of Epidemiology. This survey revealed that children were not receiving the basic immunization which is highly efficient in protecting against diphtheria. In 1953, diphtheria incidence was restudied. It was found that while North Carolina's diphtheria case rate was still above that of all neighboring southern states and the United States, the 1953 record was the best ever achieved in the state. It was further determined that more than half of the 150 cases in 1953 occurred in about ten high-incidence counties. Steps are being taken to reinforce basic immunization programs in these counties. Poliomyelitis has continued largely as a health problem magnified totally out of proportion to its actual significance as a menace to the health and well-being of children. Reliable statistics have shown that poliomyelitis deaths average less than twenty-five a year in North Carolina and that only a small proportion of infected children suffer major residual paralysis. Figures obtained from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have shown that during the past five-year period, North Carolina has experienced less poliomyelitis in relation to total state population than forty-four other states in the county. In the face of these encouraging statistics, however. North Carolina has been labeled the "polio state" of the South, and time and time again the Communicable Disease Control Section has been called upon to assist distraught individuals, families, communities, and counties nervously confronted with an increased incidence of poliomyelitis. The year 1953 was unique in that a mass inoculation program, utilizing gamma globulin, a blood product, was advocated by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as a temporary community poliomyelitis control measure. At the request of local medical societies and health departments, mass gamma globulin inoculation programs were staged in Caldwell, Catawba, and Avery counties in June, July and August 1953. More than 30,000 children in these three counties received injections of the
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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) and 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 | 1952-1954 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-035 |
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 | 35 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 79 |
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) and 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 | 1952-1954 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-035-0083 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; 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 | 35 |
Page Number | 79 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | North Carolina Board of Health 79 Chief of the Communicable Disease Control Section. This epidemiologist was employed in April 1953. In August 1953, he assumed duties as Chief of the Accident Prevention Section. This assumption of additional duties was facilitated by the assignment, by the U. S. Public Health Service, of a field epidemiologist for the period July 1953 through June 1954 to assist in disease control programs. This increase in personnel enabled the Section to carry out a number of special studies relative to contagious disease problems. Two steps seem of highest priority to insure the future of disease control. First, the salary of the Section Chief should be assimilated into the state budget since additional Federal aid reduction could result in the loss of this physician, and second, the U. S. Public Health Service should be encouraged to continue the assignment of a field epidemiologist to this state. The availability of a trained field staff of public health specialists to offer epidemic assistance to local health departments is essential to the forceful control of infectious diseases. Foremost among preventable diseases which still remain as health problems in the state is diphtheria. Traditionally, North Carolina has presented one of the worst diphtheria records in the United States. In 1948, a comprehensive review of cases of diphtheria occurring in the state was made by the Division of Epidemiology. This survey revealed that children were not receiving the basic immunization which is highly efficient in protecting against diphtheria. In 1953, diphtheria incidence was restudied. It was found that while North Carolina's diphtheria case rate was still above that of all neighboring southern states and the United States, the 1953 record was the best ever achieved in the state. It was further determined that more than half of the 150 cases in 1953 occurred in about ten high-incidence counties. Steps are being taken to reinforce basic immunization programs in these counties. Poliomyelitis has continued largely as a health problem magnified totally out of proportion to its actual significance as a menace to the health and well-being of children. Reliable statistics have shown that poliomyelitis deaths average less than twenty-five a year in North Carolina and that only a small proportion of infected children suffer major residual paralysis. Figures obtained from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have shown that during the past five-year period, North Carolina has experienced less poliomyelitis in relation to total state population than forty-four other states in the county. In the face of these encouraging statistics, however. North Carolina has been labeled the "polio state" of the South, and time and time again the Communicable Disease Control Section has been called upon to assist distraught individuals, families, communities, and counties nervously confronted with an increased incidence of poliomyelitis. The year 1953 was unique in that a mass inoculation program, utilizing gamma globulin, a blood product, was advocated by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as a temporary community poliomyelitis control measure. At the request of local medical societies and health departments, mass gamma globulin inoculation programs were staged in Caldwell, Catawba, and Avery counties in June, July and August 1953. More than 30,000 children in these three counties received injections of the |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-035 |
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