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North Cakolina Board of Hioalth 109 the present State Board of Health building. Considerably more than $300,000 is represented in this and the laboratory farm, west of the city. It is estimated that this Division of the Health Department saves the taxpayers of North Carolina more than $2,000,000 a year, in the services it renders. Without any one of the various divisions and bureaus comprising it, the State Board of Health would not be rendering the service to the people of the State it is rendering today; and without any one of the local health units, the Public Health picture in North Carolina would be incomplete. It is, therefore, necessary that North Carolinians be kept informed about what this governmental agency is undertaking and accomplishing in their behalf. No branch of government affects all the people more vitally than their Department of Public Health, in which there now appears to be an increasing interest on the part of the citizenry. This was demonstrated, to a degree, during the polio epidemic of last year. Although daily reports were issued from the office of the Director of the Division of Epidemiology, on the number of cases diagnosed, Radio Station WPTF requested that the staff member who makes the weekly broadcasts known as ''Your Health and You" appear on the 6:45 P.M. newscast daily, and, in his own words, give the public a verbal report. The radio station director insisted that this procedure, with a daily warning against hysteria, would have a tendency to keep the people calm, in the midst of a serious situation. In looking over the record of our State Health Department, not only for last year, but for the years that have come and gone since its establishment, we find many things to inspire justifiable pride. We have, in the main, made progress; we have also missed many opportunities, perhaps. But whatever may have been the experiences of the past, we undoubtedly, are entering into a period that will be filled with greater responsibilities, which we should be prepared to meet, if we are to achieve the objectives for which the Board of Health was created. The decline in preventable diseases and consequent deaths has been synonymous with the activities of Public Health, but to that force alone we cannot and will not undertake to give all the credit. This credit must be shared with those who have been and are now engaged in private practice. After all, the State Board of Health is a child of organized medicine, and whatever credit we have earned must be shared with the Board's creators; namely, the physicians of North Carolina. There are hardly any, living now who were active when the Board was established, but the private practitioners of today are the successors of those pioneers of yesterday, who not only laid the ground work for and actually founded the State Board of Health, but who, also, pioneered in many other projects and movements which later came to full fruition. The value of the investment made toward better health in North Carolina by private practitioners and pubUc health workers cannot be over-estimated. While we have accomplished much, in both curative and preventive medicine, we are still faced with a gigantic challenge, in combatting what we know as the degenerative diseases of middle and late life. We have
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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) and 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 | 1948-1950 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-033 |
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 | 33 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 109 |
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) and 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 | 1948-1950 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-033-0113 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review; organizational news |
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. |
Filename | biennialreportof33nort_0113.jp2 |
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 | 33 |
Page Number | 109 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | North Cakolina Board of Hioalth 109 the present State Board of Health building. Considerably more than $300,000 is represented in this and the laboratory farm, west of the city. It is estimated that this Division of the Health Department saves the taxpayers of North Carolina more than $2,000,000 a year, in the services it renders. Without any one of the various divisions and bureaus comprising it, the State Board of Health would not be rendering the service to the people of the State it is rendering today; and without any one of the local health units, the Public Health picture in North Carolina would be incomplete. It is, therefore, necessary that North Carolinians be kept informed about what this governmental agency is undertaking and accomplishing in their behalf. No branch of government affects all the people more vitally than their Department of Public Health, in which there now appears to be an increasing interest on the part of the citizenry. This was demonstrated, to a degree, during the polio epidemic of last year. Although daily reports were issued from the office of the Director of the Division of Epidemiology, on the number of cases diagnosed, Radio Station WPTF requested that the staff member who makes the weekly broadcasts known as ''Your Health and You" appear on the 6:45 P.M. newscast daily, and, in his own words, give the public a verbal report. The radio station director insisted that this procedure, with a daily warning against hysteria, would have a tendency to keep the people calm, in the midst of a serious situation. In looking over the record of our State Health Department, not only for last year, but for the years that have come and gone since its establishment, we find many things to inspire justifiable pride. We have, in the main, made progress; we have also missed many opportunities, perhaps. But whatever may have been the experiences of the past, we undoubtedly, are entering into a period that will be filled with greater responsibilities, which we should be prepared to meet, if we are to achieve the objectives for which the Board of Health was created. The decline in preventable diseases and consequent deaths has been synonymous with the activities of Public Health, but to that force alone we cannot and will not undertake to give all the credit. This credit must be shared with those who have been and are now engaged in private practice. After all, the State Board of Health is a child of organized medicine, and whatever credit we have earned must be shared with the Board's creators; namely, the physicians of North Carolina. There are hardly any, living now who were active when the Board was established, but the private practitioners of today are the successors of those pioneers of yesterday, who not only laid the ground work for and actually founded the State Board of Health, but who, also, pioneered in many other projects and movements which later came to full fruition. The value of the investment made toward better health in North Carolina by private practitioners and pubUc health workers cannot be over-estimated. While we have accomplished much, in both curative and preventive medicine, we are still faced with a gigantic challenge, in combatting what we know as the degenerative diseases of middle and late life. We have |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-033.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-033 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-02 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2375275 |
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