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88 BULLETIN jST. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. DIFFERENTIATING EFFECT AND CAUSE. In liis little book on "Latter-Day Saints and Sinners/' Edward Eoss says that "there will always be room for the goodness Avhich helps the lame dog over the stile, lifts up the stumbling child, and gives a cup of cold water to the thirsty wayfarer; these personal ministrations we must not lose/' But he adds: "If the keynote of far-reaching service is prevention, there is perhaps nowadays no high and noble endeavor more holy and precious than this smiting of iniquity. If we ever get our eyes open," he says, "no matter how gentle and shrinking we are, our service is sure to become in time less of a ministration and more of a crusade. . . . One starts out just to clothe the naked, but presently he is grappling with vice caterers and exploiters who, he realizes, turn out more nakedness in a day than he can cover in a year. Another sets forth simply to bear light to those who sit in darkness, but ere long she is astonished to find herself withstanding the exploiters of child labor, rebuking the public school politicians or exposing the text-book grafters. A third fares abroad in the morning with no thought but to minister to the sick, but ere it is noon you find that one hammering away at quacks and bogus medical schools and patent medicine frauds and food adulterers. It is this contact with real life, and nothing else, that is turning ministering angels into armed champions. For the philosophy of goodness, as you find it in the book, the pulpit, or the classroom, has not advanced, and your true saint is still supposed to carry with him nothing but honey and balm." "The latter-day saint carries a sword at his thigh; because as society develops from the simple to the complex, more and more of woe and misery is chargeable on some one else than the sufferer of it." "Little is to be done for mill children, or factory girls, or shop women, or the Avorkers in the unwholesome trades and the dangerous occupations, or the victims of industrial accidents, save by means of legislation; but such legislation must be fought for, and it is not to be had by those who are afraid to give blows or to take them."—Adelaide Nutting, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. QUARANTINE—ITS INEFFECTIVENESS IN THE PAST. (Abstract from pxp3r read bsfore the North Carolina Health Officers* Association at Morehead City by Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary.) When the problem of preventive medicine first began to absorb the attention of public health workers, thirty or forty years ago, the diseases that appeared to afford the biggest opportunities along lines of preventive medicine were the fonr common contagions diseases—measles, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. A quarter of a century ago -we were going to "stamp out" these diseases. As the following table will show, they have not been "stamped out''; in fact, their mortality rates have been so slightly affected by a quarter of a century of tremendous progress in the field of preventive medicine that to call public attention to the very slight depression in the mortality rates of these diseases is to beg for scant praise. The interesting table, furthermore.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-03: Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-028 |
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 | 28 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 88 |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-028-0094 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial; report/review |
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 | 28 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 88 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 88 BULLETIN jST. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. DIFFERENTIATING EFFECT AND CAUSE. In liis little book on "Latter-Day Saints and Sinners/' Edward Eoss says that "there will always be room for the goodness Avhich helps the lame dog over the stile, lifts up the stumbling child, and gives a cup of cold water to the thirsty wayfarer; these personal ministrations we must not lose/' But he adds: "If the keynote of far-reaching service is prevention, there is perhaps nowadays no high and noble endeavor more holy and precious than this smiting of iniquity. If we ever get our eyes open" he says, "no matter how gentle and shrinking we are, our service is sure to become in time less of a ministration and more of a crusade. . . . One starts out just to clothe the naked, but presently he is grappling with vice caterers and exploiters who, he realizes, turn out more nakedness in a day than he can cover in a year. Another sets forth simply to bear light to those who sit in darkness, but ere long she is astonished to find herself withstanding the exploiters of child labor, rebuking the public school politicians or exposing the text-book grafters. A third fares abroad in the morning with no thought but to minister to the sick, but ere it is noon you find that one hammering away at quacks and bogus medical schools and patent medicine frauds and food adulterers. It is this contact with real life, and nothing else, that is turning ministering angels into armed champions. For the philosophy of goodness, as you find it in the book, the pulpit, or the classroom, has not advanced, and your true saint is still supposed to carry with him nothing but honey and balm." "The latter-day saint carries a sword at his thigh; because as society develops from the simple to the complex, more and more of woe and misery is chargeable on some one else than the sufferer of it." "Little is to be done for mill children, or factory girls, or shop women, or the Avorkers in the unwholesome trades and the dangerous occupations, or the victims of industrial accidents, save by means of legislation; but such legislation must be fought for, and it is not to be had by those who are afraid to give blows or to take them."—Adelaide Nutting, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. QUARANTINE—ITS INEFFECTIVENESS IN THE PAST. (Abstract from pxp3r read bsfore the North Carolina Health Officers* Association at Morehead City by Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary.) When the problem of preventive medicine first began to absorb the attention of public health workers, thirty or forty years ago, the diseases that appeared to afford the biggest opportunities along lines of preventive medicine were the fonr common contagions diseases—measles, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. A quarter of a century ago -we were going to "stamp out" these diseases. As the following table will show, they have not been "stamped out''; in fact, their mortality rates have been so slightly affected by a quarter of a century of tremendous progress in the field of preventive medicine that to call public attention to the very slight depression in the mortality rates of these diseases is to beg for scant praise. The interesting table, furthermore. |
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