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North Carolina Board of IIelvlth 139 The average person would probably believe that 70,089 privies is sufficient to completely sanitate North Carolina's rural homes. Unfortunately, this is not true, and the surface has just been scratched in community sanitation work in this State. A survey of 12 representative counties in North Carolina made by the Extension Division of the Home Demonstration Work of State College, before the work relief privy construction program Avas started, resulted in the following summation: Rural homes with no toilet facilities .................... 33% Kural homes mth insanitary toilets ...................... 53% Eural homes with santary toilets ........................ 14% The 70,089 privies built since December 1, 1933, is 19% of the 375,000 estimated homes. You cannot assume that one-third of the rural homes in the State have sanitary means of excreta disposal. This assumption would not be true since the community sanitation work, in many cases, was confined to small villages and population centers not classified as rural districts. At the present time we have WPA Community Sanitation projects operating in 75 counties and NYA Community Sanitation projects wliich supplement the WPA projects, operating in 19 counties. These projects are employing about 1,000 men and are constructing approximately 3,000 privies per month. Assuming that only 20% of the rural homes are sanitated we now have approximately 300,000 homes without a sanitary toilet. At the ])resent rate of 3,000 privies per month being constructed it will require 8 1-3 years to provide all of North Carolina's rural homes with a sanitary privy. DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS The Division of Vital Statistics recorded 33,205 deaths for 1935. This represented 10.1 deaths for every 1000 estimated population, a rate slightly lower than the 10.(5 for 1934. In round numbers there were 1,400 fewer deaths from all causes than for 1934. There were fewer deaths from typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, Avhooping cough, diphtheria and tuberculosis among the infectious diseases. Influenza and pneumonia accounted for approximately the same number in 1935 as for 1934. Pellagra and diarrhea and enteritis under two years of age showed a decline. There were (37 deaths from poliomyelitis. This was three times as many as was caused by this condition in 1934. However, in comparison with many other infectious diseases it Avas a minor cause of death. There were 800 fewer puerperal deaths. On the other hand such conditions as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus show no such improvement, but in some instances actual increases were shown. Accidental deaths as a group increased, automobile accidents alone accounting for 100 more deaths than for 1934. In 1935 there were 79,746 live births, approximately 200 more than for 1934. This represents over twice as many births as deaths and would indicate in general a healthy growing population. The Division of Vital Statistics has been equipped with the most modern indexing and record keeping systems. The 10,000 certificates received
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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 |
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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 |
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Form General | Periodicals |
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Language | English |
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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 | 26 |
Page Number | 139 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | North Carolina Board of IIelvlth 139 The average person would probably believe that 70,089 privies is sufficient to completely sanitate North Carolina's rural homes. Unfortunately, this is not true, and the surface has just been scratched in community sanitation work in this State. A survey of 12 representative counties in North Carolina made by the Extension Division of the Home Demonstration Work of State College, before the work relief privy construction program Avas started, resulted in the following summation: Rural homes with no toilet facilities .................... 33% Kural homes mth insanitary toilets ...................... 53% Eural homes with santary toilets ........................ 14% The 70,089 privies built since December 1, 1933, is 19% of the 375,000 estimated homes. You cannot assume that one-third of the rural homes in the State have sanitary means of excreta disposal. This assumption would not be true since the community sanitation work, in many cases, was confined to small villages and population centers not classified as rural districts. At the present time we have WPA Community Sanitation projects operating in 75 counties and NYA Community Sanitation projects wliich supplement the WPA projects, operating in 19 counties. These projects are employing about 1,000 men and are constructing approximately 3,000 privies per month. Assuming that only 20% of the rural homes are sanitated we now have approximately 300,000 homes without a sanitary toilet. At the ])resent rate of 3,000 privies per month being constructed it will require 8 1-3 years to provide all of North Carolina's rural homes with a sanitary privy. DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS The Division of Vital Statistics recorded 33,205 deaths for 1935. This represented 10.1 deaths for every 1000 estimated population, a rate slightly lower than the 10.(5 for 1934. In round numbers there were 1,400 fewer deaths from all causes than for 1934. There were fewer deaths from typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, Avhooping cough, diphtheria and tuberculosis among the infectious diseases. Influenza and pneumonia accounted for approximately the same number in 1935 as for 1934. Pellagra and diarrhea and enteritis under two years of age showed a decline. There were (37 deaths from poliomyelitis. This was three times as many as was caused by this condition in 1934. However, in comparison with many other infectious diseases it Avas a minor cause of death. There were 800 fewer puerperal deaths. On the other hand such conditions as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus show no such improvement, but in some instances actual increases were shown. Accidental deaths as a group increased, automobile accidents alone accounting for 100 more deaths than for 1934. In 1935 there were 79,746 live births, approximately 200 more than for 1934. This represents over twice as many births as deaths and would indicate in general a healthy growing population. The Division of Vital Statistics has been equipped with the most modern indexing and record keeping systems. The 10,000 certificates received |
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