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BULLETIn c. state BOARD OF HEALTH. 196 it is not an impossible task to provide against racial decadence and toward a higher standard of racial development. While it may be impossible to force a numerical increase in births of the superior and fit individuals, it is within the easy range of public-health accomplishments to protect such and develop to adult life with health and vigor thousands of fit specimens of -infants and youths that are being sacrificed to the ignorance of hygienic laws and to the lack of public-health activities. And it is neither impossible, impracticable, nor unreasonable to force a numerical decrease in births of the palpably unfit. The progress of man is the product of two very different, though closely correlated, agencies. The one is the hereditary imprint of generation to generation, a biological process of evolution, which marks the intrinsic character of man. The other is largely independent of ilnmediate parentage or the individual himself; it embraces the change in knowledge, possessions, and acts of man, wdiich is termed Social Progress, and determines the environment of individual and collective man. With the development of the human brain, its capacity to think and to accumulate knowledge, and to hand down from generation to generation the results of every advance by means of oral and written tradition, and to translate ideas into science, social progress has been comparatively rapid, and the importance of providing mankind with a proper environment through sanitation, education, and good government has become a fixed policy of most civilized people. But whereas the unit periods of such social progress may be written in centuries, the biologicakfactors in human evolution are measured by ages; hence the greatest human development that is witnessed by a single generation result? from the environmental conditions which mark social progress rather than through biological factors. The students of the science of Eugenics see a fruitful field of action toward promoting a higher standard of physical efficiency and resistance to disease in the human race, by some system of regulating marriages and untoward hereditary tendencies in the initial conception of human life. The advocates of the science of Sanitation and of Public-health Activities, sometimes referred to in its comprehensive conception as Euthenics, in contrast with Eugenics, would counteract the physical deficiencies of the human race by providing such conditions of living environment, and promoting such living habits, as to build up the individual and racial resisting powers of the human body to the attacks of its natural enemies, so prevalent in the form of microscopic life, and at the same time promoting conditions that Avill tend to reduce the prevalence and activity of the germs of disease. While the theories of the Eugenics school may be essential to the ultimate betterment of the human race, and indeed may be its one great hope of saving the human race from imbecility, poverty, disease, and immorality, yet, for securing immediate relief from the excessive ravages of such diseases as scarlet fever and diphtheria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and kindred types so fatal to mankind, little hope is offered therein, except in so far as a higher average of intelligence begets a more universal respect for public-health activities and a greater communitv regard for hygienic living habits and conditions.
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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 | 1912-1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-027 |
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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 | 27 |
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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 | 1912-1913 |
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Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article; 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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Volume Number | 27 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 187 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | BULLETIn c. state BOARD OF HEALTH. 196 it is not an impossible task to provide against racial decadence and toward a higher standard of racial development. While it may be impossible to force a numerical increase in births of the superior and fit individuals, it is within the easy range of public-health accomplishments to protect such and develop to adult life with health and vigor thousands of fit specimens of -infants and youths that are being sacrificed to the ignorance of hygienic laws and to the lack of public-health activities. And it is neither impossible, impracticable, nor unreasonable to force a numerical decrease in births of the palpably unfit. The progress of man is the product of two very different, though closely correlated, agencies. The one is the hereditary imprint of generation to generation, a biological process of evolution, which marks the intrinsic character of man. The other is largely independent of ilnmediate parentage or the individual himself; it embraces the change in knowledge, possessions, and acts of man, wdiich is termed Social Progress, and determines the environment of individual and collective man. With the development of the human brain, its capacity to think and to accumulate knowledge, and to hand down from generation to generation the results of every advance by means of oral and written tradition, and to translate ideas into science, social progress has been comparatively rapid, and the importance of providing mankind with a proper environment through sanitation, education, and good government has become a fixed policy of most civilized people. But whereas the unit periods of such social progress may be written in centuries, the biologicakfactors in human evolution are measured by ages; hence the greatest human development that is witnessed by a single generation result? from the environmental conditions which mark social progress rather than through biological factors. The students of the science of Eugenics see a fruitful field of action toward promoting a higher standard of physical efficiency and resistance to disease in the human race, by some system of regulating marriages and untoward hereditary tendencies in the initial conception of human life. The advocates of the science of Sanitation and of Public-health Activities, sometimes referred to in its comprehensive conception as Euthenics, in contrast with Eugenics, would counteract the physical deficiencies of the human race by providing such conditions of living environment, and promoting such living habits, as to build up the individual and racial resisting powers of the human body to the attacks of its natural enemies, so prevalent in the form of microscopic life, and at the same time promoting conditions that Avill tend to reduce the prevalence and activity of the germs of disease. While the theories of the Eugenics school may be essential to the ultimate betterment of the human race, and indeed may be its one great hope of saving the human race from imbecility, poverty, disease, and immorality, yet, for securing immediate relief from the excessive ravages of such diseases as scarlet fever and diphtheria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and kindred types so fatal to mankind, little hope is offered therein, except in so far as a higher average of intelligence begets a more universal respect for public-health activities and a greater communitv regard for hygienic living habits and conditions. |
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Article Title | National Deterioration by Neglect of Public Health |
Article Author | Ludlow, J. L. |
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