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12 The Health BtlIvEtin the radio, telephone, and other spectacular scientific developments. The problem confronting public officials today, therefore, is an entirely different problem than that of ten or twenty years ago, and it ranks in magnitude of public health and economic importance second to no other public problem facing the city official. SERVICE IS OFFPmED TO ALL The State Board of Health is fully aware of the magnitude of the problem and is making every possible effort to discharge the obligation placed upon it by the statutes, and to assist the city officials in meeting their obligations in this respect. The community will profit most only when the local government and the State agency co-operate to the utmost. The State Board of Health, therefore, offers its co-operation to any and all communities, and cordially invites the co-operation of the city officials. A very satisfactory spirit of co-oporation on the part of the city officials has been met in the last two years, in most instances. Accordingly, the public water-supply improvement which has been effected is even greater than was anticipated. In many instanced, however, there remains much to be done in the way of water-supply improvement before the greatest possible public-health protection is afforded by all of the water supplies in North Carolina. New city officials are therefore invited to communicate with the State Board of Health relative to their public water supplies. All of the supplies of the State have been investigated, and the department is in position to give recommendations setting forth the principal defects and most urgently needed improvements for every water supply in the State. This department stands ready to serve at any time. It is hoped that the next two years will witness even greater progress than the last two years. MEDICAL HISTORY (Each month, under the above heading, for the purpose of funiishinf? information to physicians as well as to the people generally, will be published something of the wonderful record of the history of medicine,) PELLAGRA According to Garrison, the first written description of pellagra was by Gasper Casal, a Spanish physician, in 1735. His book, however, was not published until 1762. The disease was called by him ''rose sickness." In 1771, Frapolli, an Italian physician, published a carefully written description of the disease, in which he designated it by the name ''pellagra/' by which it has ever since been known. Although first noted in Italy in 1771, within a period of thirteen years the disease had become so widespread and serious in that country that a hospital under royal authority was founded for the study of its nature. Medical opinion then, as since, was divided concerning many phases of the malady, A new era in the study of the disease followed the publication of an exhaustive paper about 1810 by Marzari, in which he claimed that the cause was due to eating Indian corn. That theory was later ably championed by the great Lombroso. For at least a century following, the medical profession in Europe was divided into ''Maize" and "Anti-Maize" groups; many of the latter maintaining that the disease was not a definite one, but, like indigestion, was a manifestation of other diseases. Since 1780, Italy and Roumania, in both of which countries it is endemic, have been considered the disease centers. Previous to the advent of the present century the disease was unknown in North Carolina, and if it had ever
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1923 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-038 |
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 | 38 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 12 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1923 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-038-0058 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review; article |
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 | healthbulletinse38nort_0058.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 | 38 |
Issue Number | 6 |
Page Number | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 12 The Health BtlIvEtin the radio, telephone, and other spectacular scientific developments. The problem confronting public officials today, therefore, is an entirely different problem than that of ten or twenty years ago, and it ranks in magnitude of public health and economic importance second to no other public problem facing the city official. SERVICE IS OFFPmED TO ALL The State Board of Health is fully aware of the magnitude of the problem and is making every possible effort to discharge the obligation placed upon it by the statutes, and to assist the city officials in meeting their obligations in this respect. The community will profit most only when the local government and the State agency co-operate to the utmost. The State Board of Health, therefore, offers its co-operation to any and all communities, and cordially invites the co-operation of the city officials. A very satisfactory spirit of co-oporation on the part of the city officials has been met in the last two years, in most instances. Accordingly, the public water-supply improvement which has been effected is even greater than was anticipated. In many instanced, however, there remains much to be done in the way of water-supply improvement before the greatest possible public-health protection is afforded by all of the water supplies in North Carolina. New city officials are therefore invited to communicate with the State Board of Health relative to their public water supplies. All of the supplies of the State have been investigated, and the department is in position to give recommendations setting forth the principal defects and most urgently needed improvements for every water supply in the State. This department stands ready to serve at any time. It is hoped that the next two years will witness even greater progress than the last two years. MEDICAL HISTORY (Each month, under the above heading, for the purpose of funiishinf? information to physicians as well as to the people generally, will be published something of the wonderful record of the history of medicine,) PELLAGRA According to Garrison, the first written description of pellagra was by Gasper Casal, a Spanish physician, in 1735. His book, however, was not published until 1762. The disease was called by him ''rose sickness." In 1771, Frapolli, an Italian physician, published a carefully written description of the disease, in which he designated it by the name ''pellagra/' by which it has ever since been known. Although first noted in Italy in 1771, within a period of thirteen years the disease had become so widespread and serious in that country that a hospital under royal authority was founded for the study of its nature. Medical opinion then, as since, was divided concerning many phases of the malady, A new era in the study of the disease followed the publication of an exhaustive paper about 1810 by Marzari, in which he claimed that the cause was due to eating Indian corn. That theory was later ably championed by the great Lombroso. For at least a century following, the medical profession in Europe was divided into ''Maize" and "Anti-Maize" groups; many of the latter maintaining that the disease was not a definite one, but, like indigestion, was a manifestation of other diseases. Since 1780, Italy and Roumania, in both of which countries it is endemic, have been considered the disease centers. Previous to the advent of the present century the disease was unknown in North Carolina, and if it had ever |
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Article Title | Public Water Supply - The Mutal Responsibility of Municipality and State |
Article Author | Miller, H. E. |
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