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FOUKTEENTII BIENNIAL REPORT 49 the child to save one-third of the years that are his natural birthright? When it comes to fundamentals, the laws of life and sanitation are fundamental to the fundamentals of education. State Medical Society, Local Medical Society, Individual Doctor—does your influence count in the school at home? Have you used it? Are the children in that school taught how to live? Why not? educatioxal work of the state board of health. This work is carried on through the Bulletin, special literature, newspaper articles, and addresses. Most of the addresses are delivered before organizations of one kind or another, and especially to teachers' assemblies. The Bulletin's mailing list continues to grow. Last year I announced that this publication went to 11,500 homes. It now reaches 20,000 homes. This includes all the doctors, preachers, lawyers, seven thousand of the ten thousand public school teachers, all of the newspapers of the State, and a large number of lay readers. We realize that there are several ways in which the Bulletin should be improved. In the first place, it should be issued on time. With the additional help supplied by the last Legislature this will be possible in the future. In the past, the large amount of work to be done by a small office force, plus the delay of State printers in supplying official publications, has made it impossible to get the Bulletin out promptly. But for an additional mailing expense of $20 a month, I should be strongly in favor of making the Bulletin a semi-monthly publication. In the form of special literature we now have on hand pamphlets on typhoid fever, flies, malaria, hookworm disease, sanitary privies, septic tanks, quarantine and disinfection, and the care of watersheds. Before a great while we hope to add pamphlets on pellagra, tuberculosis, smallpox and vaccination, and the care of infants. Last July we began supplying the newspapers of the State with weekly articles of from three hundred to five hundred words each, dealing with im^ portant public health questions. This work was continued for three months, but had to be dropped on account of the pressure of the more mandatory duties of the office. Now, in concluding these remarks on the educational phase of the public health work of the Board, allow me to say that this is by far the most important work that we are doing, but important as it is, compared with the possibilities of sanitary accomplishment through a well ordered system of sanitary instruction in our public schools, it is like the guerrilla warfare of the semi-civilized compared with the irresistible army of a Count Oyama^ Plant the prolific seed of sanitation in the fertile soil of plastic minds, and the old fellow with the scythe will get a distinct limp in his gait. recent legislation. The General Assembly of 1911 was more liberal with the cause of public health than any preceding Assembly. Their treatment of this fundamental problem should receive the hearty commendation of our profession. The public health appropriation was increased one hundred and twenty per cent, making the total appropriation now available for this cause $26,000 annually. This is exclusive of the printing. As compared with the other States of the Union, we stand fourteenth in population, twenty-third in wealth, and about nineteenth in our public health appropriation. We are not spending as much
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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 | 1911-1912 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-014 |
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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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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 | 1911-1912 |
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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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Volume Number | 14 |
Page Number | 49 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | FOUKTEENTII BIENNIAL REPORT 49 the child to save one-third of the years that are his natural birthright? When it comes to fundamentals, the laws of life and sanitation are fundamental to the fundamentals of education. State Medical Society, Local Medical Society, Individual Doctor—does your influence count in the school at home? Have you used it? Are the children in that school taught how to live? Why not? educatioxal work of the state board of health. This work is carried on through the Bulletin, special literature, newspaper articles, and addresses. Most of the addresses are delivered before organizations of one kind or another, and especially to teachers' assemblies. The Bulletin's mailing list continues to grow. Last year I announced that this publication went to 11,500 homes. It now reaches 20,000 homes. This includes all the doctors, preachers, lawyers, seven thousand of the ten thousand public school teachers, all of the newspapers of the State, and a large number of lay readers. We realize that there are several ways in which the Bulletin should be improved. In the first place, it should be issued on time. With the additional help supplied by the last Legislature this will be possible in the future. In the past, the large amount of work to be done by a small office force, plus the delay of State printers in supplying official publications, has made it impossible to get the Bulletin out promptly. But for an additional mailing expense of $20 a month, I should be strongly in favor of making the Bulletin a semi-monthly publication. In the form of special literature we now have on hand pamphlets on typhoid fever, flies, malaria, hookworm disease, sanitary privies, septic tanks, quarantine and disinfection, and the care of watersheds. Before a great while we hope to add pamphlets on pellagra, tuberculosis, smallpox and vaccination, and the care of infants. Last July we began supplying the newspapers of the State with weekly articles of from three hundred to five hundred words each, dealing with im^ portant public health questions. This work was continued for three months, but had to be dropped on account of the pressure of the more mandatory duties of the office. Now, in concluding these remarks on the educational phase of the public health work of the Board, allow me to say that this is by far the most important work that we are doing, but important as it is, compared with the possibilities of sanitary accomplishment through a well ordered system of sanitary instruction in our public schools, it is like the guerrilla warfare of the semi-civilized compared with the irresistible army of a Count Oyama^ Plant the prolific seed of sanitation in the fertile soil of plastic minds, and the old fellow with the scythe will get a distinct limp in his gait. recent legislation. The General Assembly of 1911 was more liberal with the cause of public health than any preceding Assembly. Their treatment of this fundamental problem should receive the hearty commendation of our profession. The public health appropriation was increased one hundred and twenty per cent, making the total appropriation now available for this cause $26,000 annually. This is exclusive of the printing. As compared with the other States of the Union, we stand fourteenth in population, twenty-third in wealth, and about nineteenth in our public health appropriation. We are not spending as much |
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