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120 APVE'SDIX. » one family neglects its hygienic duties, the errors do not fall alone upon the transgressors, but just as likely upon their unoffending neighbors. It is proper, therefore, that efforts should be made to teach the principles of hygienics in our schools—not so much by text-books as orally, by the teachers who have studied and digested thox'ough systems of hygienics. Tliere is no time in our short public-school terms to take up a thoroughly good book, such as that by Dr. Ezra M. Hunt on '^The Elements of Hygienics,'' so that the duty devolves upon the conscientious teacher to make his or her preparations to intersperse a lecture on hygienics into the monotonous curriculum. If these lectures do not degenerate into ill-judged temperance lectures, to the exclusion of sound doctrines on other points, it will be fruitful for good with some, at least, of the rising generation. In conclusion, I would say that the future of preventive medicine or hygienics depends upon the education of the masses. If our mayors^ for instance, happen to have no standard of cleanliness, and having only the example of their own town to measure their degree of sanitary duty by, and the masses of the people have no idea of hygienics, and have no good standard of cleanliness, there will be repeated, from century to century, the average condition of insanitariness so often seen in our towns—public places carefully policed, but the neighborhood of petty tax-payers on the suburbs made a dumping-ground for the garbage removed from these public places. How are these reforms to be complete ? I think we can foresee, in the not very distant future, the adoption of garbage furnaces. The people are going out in the world more and bringing back home ideas and impressions which they have gained by seeing the condition of other cities, and it will not be many years before they will demand more orderly streets, the destiaiction of garbage by burning, and the proper construction of sewerage, and the public functionary who is willing to go along repeating the errors of these hundred years past will be supplanted by more intelligent and progressive officers. We must insist that public hygienics belongs to the people, and those of us who know the principles must make it our duty to impart them, and I can assure any^one, be he citizen or citizen doctor, that the State Board of Health stands ready to aid any effort, however humble, to improve the sanitary condition of the people.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1887-1888 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-002 |
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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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1887-1888 |
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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 | 2 |
Page Number | 120 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 120 APVE'SDIX. » one family neglects its hygienic duties, the errors do not fall alone upon the transgressors, but just as likely upon their unoffending neighbors. It is proper, therefore, that efforts should be made to teach the principles of hygienics in our schools—not so much by text-books as orally, by the teachers who have studied and digested thox'ough systems of hygienics. Tliere is no time in our short public-school terms to take up a thoroughly good book, such as that by Dr. Ezra M. Hunt on '^The Elements of Hygienics,'' so that the duty devolves upon the conscientious teacher to make his or her preparations to intersperse a lecture on hygienics into the monotonous curriculum. If these lectures do not degenerate into ill-judged temperance lectures, to the exclusion of sound doctrines on other points, it will be fruitful for good with some, at least, of the rising generation. In conclusion, I would say that the future of preventive medicine or hygienics depends upon the education of the masses. If our mayors^ for instance, happen to have no standard of cleanliness, and having only the example of their own town to measure their degree of sanitary duty by, and the masses of the people have no idea of hygienics, and have no good standard of cleanliness, there will be repeated, from century to century, the average condition of insanitariness so often seen in our towns—public places carefully policed, but the neighborhood of petty tax-payers on the suburbs made a dumping-ground for the garbage removed from these public places. How are these reforms to be complete ? I think we can foresee, in the not very distant future, the adoption of garbage furnaces. The people are going out in the world more and bringing back home ideas and impressions which they have gained by seeing the condition of other cities, and it will not be many years before they will demand more orderly streets, the destiaiction of garbage by burning, and the proper construction of sewerage, and the public functionary who is willing to go along repeating the errors of these hundred years past will be supplanted by more intelligent and progressive officers. We must insist that public hygienics belongs to the people, and those of us who know the principles must make it our duty to impart them, and I can assure any^one, be he citizen or citizen doctor, that the State Board of Health stands ready to aid any effort, however humble, to improve the sanitary condition of the people. |
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Article Title | Preliminary Enquiry Into the Casues of Death in North Carolina, and Some Suggestions about the Future of Prevention |
Article Author | Wood, Thomas F. |
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