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FOURTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 17 son in a small town was fined'for coming on the streets before he was entirely well of the influenza. It must be admitted that, as much information as we have accumulated upon the subject, there seems to be no practicable means of preventing or arresting it. The epidemics in towns have been traced to the arrival of one person from an infected town, but its spread is so rapid and mysterious, and the sickness may be of such an unnoteworthy nature as not to require the attention of a physician, or not to be distinguished from usual non-epidemic catarrh. As malaria formerly entered into nearly all of our diseases on the sea-coast and in the alluvial valleys of the interior, all likely to partake of the malarial type, even surgical cases of a serious nature being almost uniformly dominated by this malarial poison, influenza seems to have asserted the same predominance, either communicating its type to all sickness, or attacking the patient at the most vulnerable point, lighting up rheumatism and gout, precipitating the consumptive in his downward course. While it has had no such destructive influence as the shorter ravages of cholera and small-pox, it has caused losses to towns, and especially to insurance companies and societies, in excess of that of any sickness-Avhich has visited the world.* The domesticated animals have suffered but little from the epidemic in our State, even estimating that the uncertain word distemper," as used hy most reporters, may or may not mean influenza, few counties have reported its presence. CONSUMPTION. This disease still continues to be the most important one that afflicts the human race, because of its fatality and universality. In North Carolina we have nothing like the prevalence of the disease that is found in the States north, east and west of us, which may be accounted for in one way by the sparseness of our population and the mildness of our climate. We are speaking, though, as if we had valuable statistics to prove our death-rate, whereas we have only the records of from thirteen to fifteen towns with a population of from 80,000 to 100,000 to estimate upon. The increased ratio of tlie death-rate among th'e negroes is still a striking feature. The causes of this disproportion lie deep in the social conditions of the negro, and the remedy is so far in the future as to seem now all but hopeless. If contagion be admitted as a potent cause, none are more subjected to it than the negroes huddled in the suburbs of every Southern town in unwholesome shanties. If syphilis, hereditary and acquired, can lay the foundation fur it, the cause is abounding. ♦This immense loss of money is less burdensome now than it appeared j'ears ago, because it is now borne by insurance companies, and in the daj-s of the plague, small-pox, by individuals, these great epidemics occurring before capital and brotherhood associations had ventured for profit and for philanthropy to provide for the widow and orphan. 2
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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 | 1891-1892 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-004 |
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 | 4 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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 | 1891-1892 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-004-0023 |
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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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 | 4 |
Page Number | 17 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | FOURTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 17 son in a small town was fined'for coming on the streets before he was entirely well of the influenza. It must be admitted that, as much information as we have accumulated upon the subject, there seems to be no practicable means of preventing or arresting it. The epidemics in towns have been traced to the arrival of one person from an infected town, but its spread is so rapid and mysterious, and the sickness may be of such an unnoteworthy nature as not to require the attention of a physician, or not to be distinguished from usual non-epidemic catarrh. As malaria formerly entered into nearly all of our diseases on the sea-coast and in the alluvial valleys of the interior, all likely to partake of the malarial type, even surgical cases of a serious nature being almost uniformly dominated by this malarial poison, influenza seems to have asserted the same predominance, either communicating its type to all sickness, or attacking the patient at the most vulnerable point, lighting up rheumatism and gout, precipitating the consumptive in his downward course. While it has had no such destructive influence as the shorter ravages of cholera and small-pox, it has caused losses to towns, and especially to insurance companies and societies, in excess of that of any sickness-Avhich has visited the world.* The domesticated animals have suffered but little from the epidemic in our State, even estimating that the uncertain word distemper" as used hy most reporters, may or may not mean influenza, few counties have reported its presence. CONSUMPTION. This disease still continues to be the most important one that afflicts the human race, because of its fatality and universality. In North Carolina we have nothing like the prevalence of the disease that is found in the States north, east and west of us, which may be accounted for in one way by the sparseness of our population and the mildness of our climate. We are speaking, though, as if we had valuable statistics to prove our death-rate, whereas we have only the records of from thirteen to fifteen towns with a population of from 80,000 to 100,000 to estimate upon. The increased ratio of tlie death-rate among th'e negroes is still a striking feature. The causes of this disproportion lie deep in the social conditions of the negro, and the remedy is so far in the future as to seem now all but hopeless. If contagion be admitted as a potent cause, none are more subjected to it than the negroes huddled in the suburbs of every Southern town in unwholesome shanties. If syphilis, hereditary and acquired, can lay the foundation fur it, the cause is abounding. ♦This immense loss of money is less burdensome now than it appeared j'ears ago, because it is now borne by insurance companies, and in the daj-s of the plague, small-pox, by individuals, these great epidemics occurring before capital and brotherhood associations had ventured for profit and for philanthropy to provide for the widow and orphan. 2 |
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