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Twenty-second Biennial Report . 31 requesting it. This Bulletin has been rated by competent judges as the best of its class in the United States; (b) preparing special pamphlets on particular health subjects such as cancer, catarrh, care of babies, constipation, colds, care of the eyes, care of the teeth, hookworm disease, malaria, pellagra, tuberculosis, sanitary privies, venereal diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox and the various contagious and infectious diseases. Approximately 1,250,000 pieces of this special educational literature is distributed annually; (c) the preparation of special articles on health subjects for the press of the State; (d) visual education through the means of a mobile motion picture unit in charge of an experienced operator, with showing primarily in the public schools of those counties having organized health departments, this unit being designed especially as aid to the local health officers. During the past year 13 counties were served, with 125 showings given to a total audience of 35,380. (9) The division of Life Extension was organized in January, 1928. This division was organized to meet a pressing public need, the action by the Board following resolutions by the President and Councillors of the State Medical Society urging the necessity of the work being undertaken. A study of the vital records of the State disclosed that whereas the death rate from the group of communicable diseases declined from 117.6 in 1917 to 35.4 in 1926, the death rate from degenerative diseases in the same ten-year period rose from 318.9 to 374.9. The total deaths from the degenerative group in 1926 was 8,105, a fourth of all the deaths occurring in the State. Included in this group are heart disease, Bright's disease, and cancer, all of which particularly affect the citizenship in the age group of 40-60. The only way to combat the alarming increase in the deaths from these degenerative causes is to get those citizens affected under competent medical care before the disease has reached an acute state. To detect these in their incipient and curable stage, it is necessary that thorough physical examinations be made periodically. The Life Extension division was organized and is functioning with two objectives: (1) to acquaint those physicians residing in the rural sections of the State, and practicing without the aid of hospitals and laboratories, with the technique of making physical examinations of the apparently well; (2) to assist the medical profession in impressing upon the citizenship of the State the fact that through competent physical examinations these degenerative diseases may be discovered in their incipiency and alleviated or cured. Particularly affecting the coastal counties of the east have been two important undertakings, the field studies in malaria control measures and the survey of salt marsh mosquito infestation. While primarily both of these problems are local, in that they are confined to a comparatively limited area of the State, yet they materially affect the public health of the State as a whole and are an important factor in the agricultural and industrial development of the State. In 1925 the State Board of Health was able to interest the Rockefeller Foundation in malaria control measures to the extent that this Foundation established at Edenton a station for the intensive and thorough study and investigation of malaria control measures. The station is under the direction of Dr. Mark F. Boyd who is assisted by a staff of trained assistants. The study is still in progress and probably will not be concluded for several years yet. From this North Carolina will secure accurate data upon which
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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. |
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 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 31 |
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-02-022-0035 |
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 | biennialreportof22nort_0035.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 | 22 |
Page Number | 31 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Twenty-second Biennial Report . 31 requesting it. This Bulletin has been rated by competent judges as the best of its class in the United States; (b) preparing special pamphlets on particular health subjects such as cancer, catarrh, care of babies, constipation, colds, care of the eyes, care of the teeth, hookworm disease, malaria, pellagra, tuberculosis, sanitary privies, venereal diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox and the various contagious and infectious diseases. Approximately 1,250,000 pieces of this special educational literature is distributed annually; (c) the preparation of special articles on health subjects for the press of the State; (d) visual education through the means of a mobile motion picture unit in charge of an experienced operator, with showing primarily in the public schools of those counties having organized health departments, this unit being designed especially as aid to the local health officers. During the past year 13 counties were served, with 125 showings given to a total audience of 35,380. (9) The division of Life Extension was organized in January, 1928. This division was organized to meet a pressing public need, the action by the Board following resolutions by the President and Councillors of the State Medical Society urging the necessity of the work being undertaken. A study of the vital records of the State disclosed that whereas the death rate from the group of communicable diseases declined from 117.6 in 1917 to 35.4 in 1926, the death rate from degenerative diseases in the same ten-year period rose from 318.9 to 374.9. The total deaths from the degenerative group in 1926 was 8,105, a fourth of all the deaths occurring in the State. Included in this group are heart disease, Bright's disease, and cancer, all of which particularly affect the citizenship in the age group of 40-60. The only way to combat the alarming increase in the deaths from these degenerative causes is to get those citizens affected under competent medical care before the disease has reached an acute state. To detect these in their incipient and curable stage, it is necessary that thorough physical examinations be made periodically. The Life Extension division was organized and is functioning with two objectives: (1) to acquaint those physicians residing in the rural sections of the State, and practicing without the aid of hospitals and laboratories, with the technique of making physical examinations of the apparently well; (2) to assist the medical profession in impressing upon the citizenship of the State the fact that through competent physical examinations these degenerative diseases may be discovered in their incipiency and alleviated or cured. Particularly affecting the coastal counties of the east have been two important undertakings, the field studies in malaria control measures and the survey of salt marsh mosquito infestation. While primarily both of these problems are local, in that they are confined to a comparatively limited area of the State, yet they materially affect the public health of the State as a whole and are an important factor in the agricultural and industrial development of the State. In 1925 the State Board of Health was able to interest the Rockefeller Foundation in malaria control measures to the extent that this Foundation established at Edenton a station for the intensive and thorough study and investigation of malaria control measures. The station is under the direction of Dr. Mark F. Boyd who is assisted by a staff of trained assistants. The study is still in progress and probably will not be concluded for several years yet. From this North Carolina will secure accurate data upon which |
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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