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44 bulleitn of the north Carolina board of health. position some time ago.'* In this connection, while it may not be entirely germane, we cannot refrain from giving our readers, upon the authority of one of its most prominent and substantial citizens, an account of the method pursued in Lenoir county, which, so far as we are informed, is unique in the anhals of penology. In that county the prisoners, except those guilty of the more serious crimes, are all kept upon the roads. While they are required to do an honest day's work, under the direction of an overseer, they are treated kindly, are well fed and clothed, are given a plug of tobacco, and twenty-five cents for washing, a week, and are allowed to stop work Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, go home and spend Sunday with their friends, reporting at 7 o'clock Monday morning. In several years only one attempt to escape had been made—by a white man, sentenced for two years, but he was recaptured and sent to the penitentiary. In our last conversation with the gentleman referred to, he told us of the astonishment of a deputy-sheriflf who had brought, one Saturday, from an adjoining county, several convicts that had been loaned to Lenoir, securely manacled, when the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, to whom he delivered them, said to him, **Take off their handcuffs," and then to the prisoners: ''Now boys, you go home, wash yourselves, put on clean cloths, and be back here bright and early Monday morning ready for work." And the last one of them reported for duty. Work on the public roads is the solution of the problem. It is somewhat interesting to note that, during June, malarial diseases, according to the reports, were relatively more prevalent in the middle or rolling, than in the eastern or flat section of the State, even one of the mountain counties, Cherokee, reporting a few cases. Some of the results of our crusade, two years ago, against the drinking of surface w^ater from shallow, open wells,as a cause of malarial diseases,is gratifying, as shown by the report from Co-lumbvis county. It is to this effect: The county is unusually free from fever. In the lower part of the county artesian wells are being sunk all over the county, and the health of every community using the water has materially improved." ' Since our last issue we have received the appended circular letter w^hich explains itself. While we are quite an admirer of the Ne%vs and Courier, having been most favorably impressed by its efforts to advance the cause of sanitation, and gratified by the many kind words it has had for our Board, we must confess that it did not tote fair " with our charming and beautiful city of Asheville in this instance. We do not believe that the Editor would have deliberately done injustice to anybody, man or town, and so in the spirit of charity w^e will assume that he was awfully dyspeptic that day. Ashevii^IvE, N. C., July 6, '97. Dear Doctor : You have no doubt noticed an unfavorable report on Asheville's water supply, published in the Charleston News and Courier on May 2Sth, 1897, containing a garbled report from the North Carolina Board of Health report for 1896. The water on which this report was made, by the confession of the State Board Analyst, arrived in an unfit condition for analysis owang to the melting of the surrounding ice in transit, and yet the Nexvs and Courier, knowing this fact, and with a later favorable report before it, undertook in its editorial columns to damage the reputation of our town as a sunnner resort and to warn sunnner tourists against the danger of a residence here. The Health Board of our city, being convinced of the superior quality of our
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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 | 1897-1898 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-012 |
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 | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 44 |
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 | 1897 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-012-0054 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial |
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 | 12 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 44 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 44 bulleitn of the north Carolina board of health. position some time ago.'* In this connection, while it may not be entirely germane, we cannot refrain from giving our readers, upon the authority of one of its most prominent and substantial citizens, an account of the method pursued in Lenoir county, which, so far as we are informed, is unique in the anhals of penology. In that county the prisoners, except those guilty of the more serious crimes, are all kept upon the roads. While they are required to do an honest day's work, under the direction of an overseer, they are treated kindly, are well fed and clothed, are given a plug of tobacco, and twenty-five cents for washing, a week, and are allowed to stop work Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, go home and spend Sunday with their friends, reporting at 7 o'clock Monday morning. In several years only one attempt to escape had been made—by a white man, sentenced for two years, but he was recaptured and sent to the penitentiary. In our last conversation with the gentleman referred to, he told us of the astonishment of a deputy-sheriflf who had brought, one Saturday, from an adjoining county, several convicts that had been loaned to Lenoir, securely manacled, when the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, to whom he delivered them, said to him, **Take off their handcuffs" and then to the prisoners: ''Now boys, you go home, wash yourselves, put on clean cloths, and be back here bright and early Monday morning ready for work." And the last one of them reported for duty. Work on the public roads is the solution of the problem. It is somewhat interesting to note that, during June, malarial diseases, according to the reports, were relatively more prevalent in the middle or rolling, than in the eastern or flat section of the State, even one of the mountain counties, Cherokee, reporting a few cases. Some of the results of our crusade, two years ago, against the drinking of surface w^ater from shallow, open wells,as a cause of malarial diseases,is gratifying, as shown by the report from Co-lumbvis county. It is to this effect: The county is unusually free from fever. In the lower part of the county artesian wells are being sunk all over the county, and the health of every community using the water has materially improved." ' Since our last issue we have received the appended circular letter w^hich explains itself. While we are quite an admirer of the Ne%vs and Courier, having been most favorably impressed by its efforts to advance the cause of sanitation, and gratified by the many kind words it has had for our Board, we must confess that it did not tote fair " with our charming and beautiful city of Asheville in this instance. We do not believe that the Editor would have deliberately done injustice to anybody, man or town, and so in the spirit of charity w^e will assume that he was awfully dyspeptic that day. Ashevii^IvE, N. C., July 6, '97. Dear Doctor : You have no doubt noticed an unfavorable report on Asheville's water supply, published in the Charleston News and Courier on May 2Sth, 1897, containing a garbled report from the North Carolina Board of Health report for 1896. The water on which this report was made, by the confession of the State Board Analyst, arrived in an unfit condition for analysis owang to the melting of the surrounding ice in transit, and yet the Nexvs and Courier, knowing this fact, and with a later favorable report before it, undertook in its editorial columns to damage the reputation of our town as a sunnner resort and to warn sunnner tourists against the danger of a residence here. The Health Board of our city, being convinced of the superior quality of our |
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