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60 xokth Cahoijna Board of Health of about 30,000 children each year. The special appropriation requested in the bill is $50,000 annually. For that sum the following things could be accomplished: First, the reexamination of all defective children first reported by the teachers; second, the operation by the best specialists working through the club plan of about 6,000 children, the fitting of eyeglasses by competent oculists of about 2,000 children, and third, the dental treatment through public clinics of about 22,000 children. This work if left to private arrangement would never be done for 90 per cent of these children; but if done for all would cost at least $300,000. These figures are based upon most conservative estimates. Thus, after totaling all the possible cost to the State and the counties, 30,000 children will receive treatment, a majority of whom would not otherwise, at a saving of at least 75 cents out of each dollar. The Third Recommendation THAT RURAL HEALTH WORK BE PROVIDED FOR BY AN APPROPRIATION CONDITIONED UPON SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS FROM OTHER SOURCES, MORE ESPECIALLY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IN THE PROPORTION OF NOT LESS THAN $2 FOR EVERY $1 EXPENDED BY THE STATE. This recommendation rests upon the following considerations: considekations Beaking Upox the relative importance of Ritral Health The first consideration is that in North Carolina 90 per cent or 2.100,000 of a 2,400,000 population is rural. The country, therefore, in this State affords by far the larger opportunity and imposes a heavier obligation for health work. The second consideration is that the rural people, as compared with the urban people, are less able, both in knowledge and in per capita wealth to safeguard their health and lives and are, therefore, most in need of assistance. The third consideration is based upon the condition of rural health. While the Federal Government by its own methods of examination applied to something like 10,000,000 men drawn from all walks of American life and from the healthiest age group—from 21 to 31 years of age—has pronounced 38 per cent of those examined unfit for military service, it has found through the records of the office of the Surgeon General that rural people are more susceptible to infections and succumb more readily to infections than urban people. The explanation of the lower ebb of vitality of rural people as compared with urban people probably lies in the greater prevalence of the subacute, devitalizing, crippling diseases in the country. As such diseases may be mentioned malaria, almost entirely rural and affecting 25 per cent of our people; hookworm disease, also almost entirely rural and affecting about 30 per cent of the people; chronic constipation, affecting 20 per cent of the people; suppurating gums, affecting 30 or 40 per cent of the population; lacerated female genital canals, affecting the larger part of the population and more rural than urban; the common physical defects of childhood, adenoids, tonsils, defective vision and bad teeth, all astoundingly prevalent and more frequently encountered among rural people than in the towns and cities. The relative importance of these crippling diseases is not properly appreciated. They are prevalent because they do not impose pain or discomfort of such intensity as to cause their victims to react against them, to apply for and carry out effective treatment. Like small taxes gradually increased
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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 | 1917-1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-017 |
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 | 17 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 60 |
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 | 1917-1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-017-0064 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news |
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 | 17 |
Page Number | 60 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 60 xokth Cahoijna Board of Health of about 30,000 children each year. The special appropriation requested in the bill is $50,000 annually. For that sum the following things could be accomplished: First, the reexamination of all defective children first reported by the teachers; second, the operation by the best specialists working through the club plan of about 6,000 children, the fitting of eyeglasses by competent oculists of about 2,000 children, and third, the dental treatment through public clinics of about 22,000 children. This work if left to private arrangement would never be done for 90 per cent of these children; but if done for all would cost at least $300,000. These figures are based upon most conservative estimates. Thus, after totaling all the possible cost to the State and the counties, 30,000 children will receive treatment, a majority of whom would not otherwise, at a saving of at least 75 cents out of each dollar. The Third Recommendation THAT RURAL HEALTH WORK BE PROVIDED FOR BY AN APPROPRIATION CONDITIONED UPON SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS FROM OTHER SOURCES, MORE ESPECIALLY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IN THE PROPORTION OF NOT LESS THAN $2 FOR EVERY $1 EXPENDED BY THE STATE. This recommendation rests upon the following considerations: considekations Beaking Upox the relative importance of Ritral Health The first consideration is that in North Carolina 90 per cent or 2.100,000 of a 2,400,000 population is rural. The country, therefore, in this State affords by far the larger opportunity and imposes a heavier obligation for health work. The second consideration is that the rural people, as compared with the urban people, are less able, both in knowledge and in per capita wealth to safeguard their health and lives and are, therefore, most in need of assistance. The third consideration is based upon the condition of rural health. While the Federal Government by its own methods of examination applied to something like 10,000,000 men drawn from all walks of American life and from the healthiest age group—from 21 to 31 years of age—has pronounced 38 per cent of those examined unfit for military service, it has found through the records of the office of the Surgeon General that rural people are more susceptible to infections and succumb more readily to infections than urban people. The explanation of the lower ebb of vitality of rural people as compared with urban people probably lies in the greater prevalence of the subacute, devitalizing, crippling diseases in the country. As such diseases may be mentioned malaria, almost entirely rural and affecting 25 per cent of our people; hookworm disease, also almost entirely rural and affecting about 30 per cent of the people; chronic constipation, affecting 20 per cent of the people; suppurating gums, affecting 30 or 40 per cent of the population; lacerated female genital canals, affecting the larger part of the population and more rural than urban; the common physical defects of childhood, adenoids, tonsils, defective vision and bad teeth, all astoundingly prevalent and more frequently encountered among rural people than in the towns and cities. The relative importance of these crippling diseases is not properly appreciated. They are prevalent because they do not impose pain or discomfort of such intensity as to cause their victims to react against them, to apply for and carry out effective treatment. Like small taxes gradually increased |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-017.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-017 |
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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