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bulletin n. c. state board of health. 289 Statement, \vritten by a statistician, is a book by Mr. Edward Bunnell Phelps, editor of the American Underwriter, which is entitled "The Mortality From Alcohol," published by Thrift Publishing Company, New York City, and can be obtained for the price of $2.00. The article in this Bulletin on "Liquor and the Death Kate" is nothing more than a revieAv of Mr. Phelps' book, which is, to the writer's mind, one of the most authoritative and unbiased discussions of the liquor problem that we have seen. This book is the first to present the problem from its relation to our national death rate in a way that will appeal to the scientific and statistical mind of the country. Another work that I should probably mention in this connection is that of Sir Victor Horsely, entitled "Alcohol and The Human Body." For a general study of the subject the writer would place this last book next to "The Liquor Problem,'^ by the Committee of Fifty. A publication that is well deserving of the attention of students of this great problem is the Scientific Temperance Journal, 23 Trull street, Boston, price 60 cents a year. The character of the contributors to this journal recommends it as authoritative and fairly unbiased. On looking through the files of this journal we are well impressed with the names, among the list of contributors, of such men as Alexander Lambert, Richard C. Cabbott, and professors of physiological chemistry, pathology and medicine in some of the very best universities of the world. From a study of unbiased literature like that above mentioned, based upon painstaking and careful scientific experiments and sociological research by those of open minds, one is forced to conclude that the liquor problem is not only a big moral problem and a big economic problem, but also a big public health problem, This will appear from the relative importance of liquor as a contributor to our death rates; it can be shown that the health and life destroying influence from liquor results in 66,000 deaths a year in the United States; that one out of every twenty deaths is due to liquor; that one out of every twelve deaths of the adult population is due to liquor; that one out of every ten male deaths is due to liquor; and, that one out of every seven and a half adult males is the result of the use of liquor. The relative importance of the liquor problem as a public health problem will appear from an examination of the following table, which gives the more important preventable causes of death with their approximate number of deaths per year in this country: Tuberculosis................................................................................150,000 Infantile diarrhoeas......................................................................80,000 Liquor............................................................................................66,000 Typhoid fever ................................................................................35,000 Diptheria......................................................................................30,000 Malaria........................................................................................15,000 Whooping-cough ........................................................................12,000 Measles..........................................................................................11,000 Scarlet fever ..................................................................................11,000 Before taking up the liquor question as a henlth problem tlie editor wrote to all of the State boards of health of the United States inquiring as to whether or not they had published any literature on the liquor
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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 |
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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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Language | English |
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Volume Number | 27 |
Issue Number | 9 |
Page Number | 289 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | bulletin n. c. state board of health. 289 Statement, \vritten by a statistician, is a book by Mr. Edward Bunnell Phelps, editor of the American Underwriter, which is entitled "The Mortality From Alcohol" published by Thrift Publishing Company, New York City, and can be obtained for the price of $2.00. The article in this Bulletin on "Liquor and the Death Kate" is nothing more than a revieAv of Mr. Phelps' book, which is, to the writer's mind, one of the most authoritative and unbiased discussions of the liquor problem that we have seen. This book is the first to present the problem from its relation to our national death rate in a way that will appeal to the scientific and statistical mind of the country. Another work that I should probably mention in this connection is that of Sir Victor Horsely, entitled "Alcohol and The Human Body." For a general study of the subject the writer would place this last book next to "The Liquor Problem,'^ by the Committee of Fifty. A publication that is well deserving of the attention of students of this great problem is the Scientific Temperance Journal, 23 Trull street, Boston, price 60 cents a year. The character of the contributors to this journal recommends it as authoritative and fairly unbiased. On looking through the files of this journal we are well impressed with the names, among the list of contributors, of such men as Alexander Lambert, Richard C. Cabbott, and professors of physiological chemistry, pathology and medicine in some of the very best universities of the world. From a study of unbiased literature like that above mentioned, based upon painstaking and careful scientific experiments and sociological research by those of open minds, one is forced to conclude that the liquor problem is not only a big moral problem and a big economic problem, but also a big public health problem, This will appear from the relative importance of liquor as a contributor to our death rates; it can be shown that the health and life destroying influence from liquor results in 66,000 deaths a year in the United States; that one out of every twenty deaths is due to liquor; that one out of every twelve deaths of the adult population is due to liquor; that one out of every ten male deaths is due to liquor; and, that one out of every seven and a half adult males is the result of the use of liquor. The relative importance of the liquor problem as a public health problem will appear from an examination of the following table, which gives the more important preventable causes of death with their approximate number of deaths per year in this country: Tuberculosis................................................................................150,000 Infantile diarrhoeas......................................................................80,000 Liquor............................................................................................66,000 Typhoid fever ................................................................................35,000 Diptheria......................................................................................30,000 Malaria........................................................................................15,000 Whooping-cough ........................................................................12,000 Measles..........................................................................................11,000 Scarlet fever ..................................................................................11,000 Before taking up the liquor question as a henlth problem tlie editor wrote to all of the State boards of health of the United States inquiring as to whether or not they had published any literature on the liquor |
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