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Twenty-third Biennial Report 33 Lastly, we come to the salvage to society through the practice of preventive medicine and the promulgation of public health. We have conquered epidemics of serious import with the exception of influenza. In 1875 the death rate was 28.3 per thousand; in 1925 it was 11.5; and in 1880 the average life span was about 40 years; it is now nearer 56 years. In 1901 a baby born in the United States registration area might expect to live 49.24 years: this expectation of life has been extended to 57.74 years. The diseases which have been most reduced are those which affect infants and young children. Infant mortality has been cut 60 per cent in the past twenty years. In the past, nearly 25 per cent of the babies did not survive the first year, only about 7 per cent die today, and two-thirds of this 7 percent will be prevented in the near future. ,0 the death rate from typhoid fever was thirty-six per 100,000 -tration area. This disease is now not far from extinction. . is on the point of being wiped out. In 1900 it had a death 43.3 per 100,000. In 1926 this death rate was reduced to 7.5. The most striking demonstration of the effectiveness of public health work is the experience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: 17 years ago, it instituted a program of health education and nursing service for its working class policy holders. It has expended over $20,000,000 in this line of work, and in 17 years it has decreased its mortality rate more than 30 per cent. The accumulative saving to this one company in mortality between 1911 and 1925 has totaled the amazing sum of $43,000,000. During this period of their demonstration the death rate from tuberculosis among the industrial policy holders has been reduced to 56 per cent; the typhoid fever reduction is 80 per cent; the communicable disease of childhood reduction is 55.5 per cent; the reduction from diphtheria alone being 62 per cent. In every important condition the death rate has declined among the industrial policy holders twice as fast as it has declined in the general population. The expectation of life has among these industrial policy holders increased by nine years, since 1911. Whereas the corresponding increase in the general population has been about five years. Health work when properly undertaken and adequately financed pays by every test of this business organization. The efforts of preventive medicine directed to the prevention of typhoid fever in North Carolina has saved the State $215,000,000 since 1914. In 1914 North Carolina had 3,260 deaths from tuberculosis; in 1928 it had 2,244 deaths from tuberculosis. If the same death rate from tuberculosis in 1914 had continued through 1928 we would have had 14,224 deaths from tuberculosis which we did not have, which means a saving in the net earnings of males and females at the age of 18 of $309,401,000. North Carolina is spending today less than forty cents per capita in preventive medicine and more than $15.00 per capita on cost of sickness alone, one-third of which sickness is preventable. In 1920 there were 603,683 males twenty-one years and over in this State; 607,044 females twenty-one years and over. According to the estimates above mentioned we would have $20.00 earning capacity apiece for the males and $10.00 earning capacity apiece for the females; and according to this, the total worth of man power in North Carolina ten year ago, our last census was taken. Would reach the gigantic figure of $18,144,300,000; while the material wealth in 1920 was only $4,543,-
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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 | 1928-1930 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-023 |
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 | 23 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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); 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 | 1928-1930 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-023-0037 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
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 | 23 |
Page Number | 33 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Twenty-third Biennial Report 33 Lastly, we come to the salvage to society through the practice of preventive medicine and the promulgation of public health. We have conquered epidemics of serious import with the exception of influenza. In 1875 the death rate was 28.3 per thousand; in 1925 it was 11.5; and in 1880 the average life span was about 40 years; it is now nearer 56 years. In 1901 a baby born in the United States registration area might expect to live 49.24 years: this expectation of life has been extended to 57.74 years. The diseases which have been most reduced are those which affect infants and young children. Infant mortality has been cut 60 per cent in the past twenty years. In the past, nearly 25 per cent of the babies did not survive the first year, only about 7 per cent die today, and two-thirds of this 7 percent will be prevented in the near future. ,0 the death rate from typhoid fever was thirty-six per 100,000 -tration area. This disease is now not far from extinction. . is on the point of being wiped out. In 1900 it had a death 43.3 per 100,000. In 1926 this death rate was reduced to 7.5. The most striking demonstration of the effectiveness of public health work is the experience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: 17 years ago, it instituted a program of health education and nursing service for its working class policy holders. It has expended over $20,000,000 in this line of work, and in 17 years it has decreased its mortality rate more than 30 per cent. The accumulative saving to this one company in mortality between 1911 and 1925 has totaled the amazing sum of $43,000,000. During this period of their demonstration the death rate from tuberculosis among the industrial policy holders has been reduced to 56 per cent; the typhoid fever reduction is 80 per cent; the communicable disease of childhood reduction is 55.5 per cent; the reduction from diphtheria alone being 62 per cent. In every important condition the death rate has declined among the industrial policy holders twice as fast as it has declined in the general population. The expectation of life has among these industrial policy holders increased by nine years, since 1911. Whereas the corresponding increase in the general population has been about five years. Health work when properly undertaken and adequately financed pays by every test of this business organization. The efforts of preventive medicine directed to the prevention of typhoid fever in North Carolina has saved the State $215,000,000 since 1914. In 1914 North Carolina had 3,260 deaths from tuberculosis; in 1928 it had 2,244 deaths from tuberculosis. If the same death rate from tuberculosis in 1914 had continued through 1928 we would have had 14,224 deaths from tuberculosis which we did not have, which means a saving in the net earnings of males and females at the age of 18 of $309,401,000. North Carolina is spending today less than forty cents per capita in preventive medicine and more than $15.00 per capita on cost of sickness alone, one-third of which sickness is preventable. In 1920 there were 603,683 males twenty-one years and over in this State; 607,044 females twenty-one years and over. According to the estimates above mentioned we would have $20.00 earning capacity apiece for the males and $10.00 earning capacity apiece for the females; and according to this, the total worth of man power in North Carolina ten year ago, our last census was taken. Would reach the gigantic figure of $18,144,300,000; while the material wealth in 1920 was only $4,543,- |
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Article Title | The Social And Economic Aspects Of Human Ailments And Public Health |
Article Author | Chas. O'Hagan Laughinghouse |
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