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Twenty-second Biennial Report . 25 HEALTH—THE STATE'S GREATEST ASSET North Carolina rejoices today in the lowest death rate since the pioneer days of its first settlement. For the past year of 1927 a new low record was achieved, 11.3 per thousand of the population. This was under the rate for the United States' registration area which now includes approximately 85 per cent of the population of the country. Again, it is demonstrated that North Carolina is not only a healthful State in which to live, but that it is in fact one of the most healthful of all the States in the Union. This has not always been true. Not so many years ago the State was hampered and its material progress checked by the prevalence of hookworm disease and malaria. Smallpox was an ever-present menace, scarring and killing. The "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis each year claimed its thousands of victims. Typhoid fever was a constant summer scourge, killing and maiming. One out of every five of the babies born in the State died before reaching a first birthday. This condition was due to a number of causes. On account of its geographical location, the State was especially susceptible to semi-tropical diseases, hookworm and malaria. Because of its predominant rural population, typhoid fever and other fecal-borne diseases, particularly the diarrheal diseases of infants, largely affected the public health. Unprotected public water supplies and general insanitary conditions throughout the State contributed to the high death rate. Today the picture is entirely changed. North Carolinians are a well and happy people, vigorous and able whether at work or play. Co-incident with the tremendous development during the years of the present century in agriculture and industries has been an improvement in general health conditions even more remarkable. Today it is true that no great number of our people are anaemic and weak from the effects of hookworm disease. That affliction is becoming rare in the State. Chills and fever and the sallow complexion of those chronically malarious now is so uncommon as to evoke comment, for malaria has been practically eradicated except from certain coastal sections as yet undrained or only partially developed agriculturally. Smallpox now kills less in a year than that comparatively new hazard to life, the automobile, kills in a week. The annual death toll from tuberculosis has been cut more than half. Through sanitation and vaccination typhoid fever has been removed as a major factor affecting the public health. Simultaneously the infant death rate, following increased knowledge of sanitary living and the protection of public water and milk supplies, has been reduced more than one-half so that now instead of one out of each five of the babies born in the State dying during the first twelve months of life the ratio is one out of each thirteen. The vital statistics records for the State as compared with those of the Nation shows that North Carolina has made a markedly greater degree of improvement in the health of its people since 1900 than has its neighboring states, or the country as a whole. In 1900 the death rate for the entire registration area of the United States was 17.6 per thousand of the population. At that time North Carolina had no accurate records, but from
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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 | 1926-1928 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-022 |
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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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 | 22 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 25 |
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 | 1926-1928 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-022-0029 |
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 | 22 |
Page Number | 25 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Twenty-second Biennial Report . 25 HEALTH—THE STATE'S GREATEST ASSET North Carolina rejoices today in the lowest death rate since the pioneer days of its first settlement. For the past year of 1927 a new low record was achieved, 11.3 per thousand of the population. This was under the rate for the United States' registration area which now includes approximately 85 per cent of the population of the country. Again, it is demonstrated that North Carolina is not only a healthful State in which to live, but that it is in fact one of the most healthful of all the States in the Union. This has not always been true. Not so many years ago the State was hampered and its material progress checked by the prevalence of hookworm disease and malaria. Smallpox was an ever-present menace, scarring and killing. The "Great White Plague" of tuberculosis each year claimed its thousands of victims. Typhoid fever was a constant summer scourge, killing and maiming. One out of every five of the babies born in the State died before reaching a first birthday. This condition was due to a number of causes. On account of its geographical location, the State was especially susceptible to semi-tropical diseases, hookworm and malaria. Because of its predominant rural population, typhoid fever and other fecal-borne diseases, particularly the diarrheal diseases of infants, largely affected the public health. Unprotected public water supplies and general insanitary conditions throughout the State contributed to the high death rate. Today the picture is entirely changed. North Carolinians are a well and happy people, vigorous and able whether at work or play. Co-incident with the tremendous development during the years of the present century in agriculture and industries has been an improvement in general health conditions even more remarkable. Today it is true that no great number of our people are anaemic and weak from the effects of hookworm disease. That affliction is becoming rare in the State. Chills and fever and the sallow complexion of those chronically malarious now is so uncommon as to evoke comment, for malaria has been practically eradicated except from certain coastal sections as yet undrained or only partially developed agriculturally. Smallpox now kills less in a year than that comparatively new hazard to life, the automobile, kills in a week. The annual death toll from tuberculosis has been cut more than half. Through sanitation and vaccination typhoid fever has been removed as a major factor affecting the public health. Simultaneously the infant death rate, following increased knowledge of sanitary living and the protection of public water and milk supplies, has been reduced more than one-half so that now instead of one out of each five of the babies born in the State dying during the first twelve months of life the ratio is one out of each thirteen. The vital statistics records for the State as compared with those of the Nation shows that North Carolina has made a markedly greater degree of improvement in the health of its people since 1900 than has its neighboring states, or the country as a whole. In 1900 the death rate for the entire registration area of the United States was 17.6 per thousand of the population. At that time North Carolina had no accurate records, but from |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-022.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-022 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-02 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2375275 |
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