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North Carolina Board of IIelvlth 137 The Division of Epidemiology expects to add to its staff a competent physician to direct the venereal disease control program, Avhich is to be developed through Social Security funds. The details of the plans for this program are to be worked out later. Suitable motion picture equipment, projector and films, have been purchased to augment this work. The North Carolina State Board of Health, in cooperation with the Eocke-feller Foundation and Vanderbilt University, is conducting an intestinal parasite survey, especially for the purpose of determining the number infested with hookworm. Seventy of the 100 counties in North Carolina are to participate in the survey. The encouragement of better reporting of the various notifiable diseases is an aim of the central office. If control measures are definitely known, delay in reporting would cause a loss of valuable time in the application of these measures during the time of an increased prevalence of any one of these diseases. For example, during our poliomyelitis epidemic, had we had definite known measures to control the disease, this office Avould have been greatly handicapped in applying such measures due to the fact that the average delay in reporting cases was between three and four weeks. The services of the Director of the Division are available for consultation relative to any unusual disease situation. THE MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAM Approximately $600,000 of the Federal Eelief funds in North Carolina was spent between May, 1935, and May, 1936, for labor, supervision, engineering, material, supplies and equipment used on projects involving the control of malaria in this State. This program was a continuation of the work which was started in 1933. It has progressed consistently throughout the entire relief program in North Carolina. At present it is financed by the WPA. The work has been calculated to remove the breeding areas of anopheles mosquitoes (malaria-carrying) from over 300,000 North Carolina citizens. It should prove to be of immense value from both the public health and economic standpoints since in recent studies, scientists have evolved the fact that the earning capacity of a territory ridden with endemic malarial fever is only two-thirds that of a similar territory free from the disease. Reports from practicing physicians and also the results of several slide surveys taken under the supervision of State Epidemiologist Knox indicate that malaria has for the past three years been definitely on the increase in North Carolina, However, a study of last year's vital statistics of malaria reveal that in the counties which participated in the malaria control program a I6V2 per cent decrease in proportion of deaths from malaria since the work was initiated in 1933, was experienced. It is well to mention several of the larger jobs. In Eowan and Iredell counties, one project involves the use of five dredging machines in addition to the labor of a large number of relief clients. The ponds and swamps which have afforded breeding places for malaria vectors will be removed from the proximity of over 40,000 people. A blood slide survey taken in mid-winter gave a positive reaction of over 13%. Similar projects have
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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 | 1934-1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-026 |
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 | 26 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 137 |
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 | 1934-1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-026-0143 |
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. |
Filename | biennialreportof26nort_0143.jp2 |
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 | 26 |
Page Number | 137 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | North Carolina Board of IIelvlth 137 The Division of Epidemiology expects to add to its staff a competent physician to direct the venereal disease control program, Avhich is to be developed through Social Security funds. The details of the plans for this program are to be worked out later. Suitable motion picture equipment, projector and films, have been purchased to augment this work. The North Carolina State Board of Health, in cooperation with the Eocke-feller Foundation and Vanderbilt University, is conducting an intestinal parasite survey, especially for the purpose of determining the number infested with hookworm. Seventy of the 100 counties in North Carolina are to participate in the survey. The encouragement of better reporting of the various notifiable diseases is an aim of the central office. If control measures are definitely known, delay in reporting would cause a loss of valuable time in the application of these measures during the time of an increased prevalence of any one of these diseases. For example, during our poliomyelitis epidemic, had we had definite known measures to control the disease, this office Avould have been greatly handicapped in applying such measures due to the fact that the average delay in reporting cases was between three and four weeks. The services of the Director of the Division are available for consultation relative to any unusual disease situation. THE MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAM Approximately $600,000 of the Federal Eelief funds in North Carolina was spent between May, 1935, and May, 1936, for labor, supervision, engineering, material, supplies and equipment used on projects involving the control of malaria in this State. This program was a continuation of the work which was started in 1933. It has progressed consistently throughout the entire relief program in North Carolina. At present it is financed by the WPA. The work has been calculated to remove the breeding areas of anopheles mosquitoes (malaria-carrying) from over 300,000 North Carolina citizens. It should prove to be of immense value from both the public health and economic standpoints since in recent studies, scientists have evolved the fact that the earning capacity of a territory ridden with endemic malarial fever is only two-thirds that of a similar territory free from the disease. Reports from practicing physicians and also the results of several slide surveys taken under the supervision of State Epidemiologist Knox indicate that malaria has for the past three years been definitely on the increase in North Carolina, However, a study of last year's vital statistics of malaria reveal that in the counties which participated in the malaria control program a I6V2 per cent decrease in proportion of deaths from malaria since the work was initiated in 1933, was experienced. It is well to mention several of the larger jobs. In Eowan and Iredell counties, one project involves the use of five dredging machines in addition to the labor of a large number of relief clients. The ponds and swamps which have afforded breeding places for malaria vectors will be removed from the proximity of over 40,000 people. A blood slide survey taken in mid-winter gave a positive reaction of over 13%. Similar projects have |
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