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u The Health Bulletin promoting your physical vigor is as constantly with you as the air and as near you as your clothing. This opportunity gets out of hod with you in the morning, directs your bath, selects your clothing, brushes your teeth, orders a wholesome meal, cleanses your system, modifies the air that you breathe, regulates your work and play, influences your reading, and leaves you only at the end of the day safely and soundly to the recreating power of sleep. Your opportunity for health improvement appeals to you with strength that is in exact proportion to your understanding of the meaning of health. The average man conceives health to be a condition that permits a person to be out of bed and about his business, or, we might say, makes the distinction between health and disease by the difference between the perpendicular and horizontal positions of the body. This common impression is altogether wrong. There is no sharp distinction or abrupt break between health and disease. The one fades by almost imperceptible gradation into the other. There is a real life-line that serves well to bring out the fine difference between health and disease. The real life-line exists, not in fake, but in fact, not running through the palm of the hand, but running through the various vitality levels of the average composite group of society. By composite group of society is meant a group that includes the races, sexes, ages, and physical conditions as they exist among the people generally. In order to include all the physical levels within the group, our composite group must be large enough to include one person who dies during the year. As one person of approximately eighty-four persons dies during the year, the group will consist of eighty-four. Tliese eighty-four are indicated by the eighty-four equidistant spaces in the diagram. Each space represents one of the individuals of the group. The heavy dark line, passing from the lower left-hand corner of the diagram to the upper right-hand corner, is the social life-line on which are suspended, at the various levels of vitality, the eighty-four members of the group, their vitality level being indicated by the segment of this line lying immediately above the space of the base line. This social life-line spanning the distance between the quick and the dead begins with the first inch on the base line at zero vitality, indicating the one person who dies during the year. The next section of the line,, ranging from the moribund at almost zero to the 30 per cent level of vitality and lying above two of the spaces on the base line, indicates the two members of the group who are sick abed to the point of incapacitation. The next thirty-three inches of the social life-line, passing through the zone of impairment from the 30 to the 70 per cent level of vitality, represents the thirty-three persons of the group, some of whom are "just able to be up and about," and others of whom are "not quite up to the scratch," and others intermediate between these two states of being. Next we come to the thirty inches of the line spanning the zone of health between the 70 and 90 per cent levels of vitality and representing thirty persons who may be classified as healthy—neither impaired nor vigorous—but healthy. Then, finally,, we come to the last section of the line,, lying between the 90 and 97 per cent levels of life and representing twenty-members of the group who are vigorous in mind and body, who live on the heights of being, who are inspired with lofty views and high ideals, and who pursue their tasks with enthusiasm. You are suspended somewhere on such a life-line. You determine, very largely, your place on the life-line. There are few of us whose positions on the life-line are rigidly fixed by circumstance, who cannot by the alteration of some habit, by cutting out too-much tobacco, by regulating the diet, by properly apportioning work, rest,, and sleep, by better regulating waste elimination, few of us who cannot move up the social life-line to a higher level—10, 20, or 30 per cent higher. If there were some short-cut to moving into a lofty realm of being, some patent medicine that you might buy, what a price you would pay gladly! But there are no short-cuts by which to attain the physical ideal. We reach the heights of physical life by right
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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 |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-038 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 9 |
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-04-038-0199 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; 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_0199.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 | 11 |
Page Number | 9 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | u The Health Bulletin promoting your physical vigor is as constantly with you as the air and as near you as your clothing. This opportunity gets out of hod with you in the morning, directs your bath, selects your clothing, brushes your teeth, orders a wholesome meal, cleanses your system, modifies the air that you breathe, regulates your work and play, influences your reading, and leaves you only at the end of the day safely and soundly to the recreating power of sleep. Your opportunity for health improvement appeals to you with strength that is in exact proportion to your understanding of the meaning of health. The average man conceives health to be a condition that permits a person to be out of bed and about his business, or, we might say, makes the distinction between health and disease by the difference between the perpendicular and horizontal positions of the body. This common impression is altogether wrong. There is no sharp distinction or abrupt break between health and disease. The one fades by almost imperceptible gradation into the other. There is a real life-line that serves well to bring out the fine difference between health and disease. The real life-line exists, not in fake, but in fact, not running through the palm of the hand, but running through the various vitality levels of the average composite group of society. By composite group of society is meant a group that includes the races, sexes, ages, and physical conditions as they exist among the people generally. In order to include all the physical levels within the group, our composite group must be large enough to include one person who dies during the year. As one person of approximately eighty-four persons dies during the year, the group will consist of eighty-four. Tliese eighty-four are indicated by the eighty-four equidistant spaces in the diagram. Each space represents one of the individuals of the group. The heavy dark line, passing from the lower left-hand corner of the diagram to the upper right-hand corner, is the social life-line on which are suspended, at the various levels of vitality, the eighty-four members of the group, their vitality level being indicated by the segment of this line lying immediately above the space of the base line. This social life-line spanning the distance between the quick and the dead begins with the first inch on the base line at zero vitality, indicating the one person who dies during the year. The next section of the line,, ranging from the moribund at almost zero to the 30 per cent level of vitality and lying above two of the spaces on the base line, indicates the two members of the group who are sick abed to the point of incapacitation. The next thirty-three inches of the social life-line, passing through the zone of impairment from the 30 to the 70 per cent level of vitality, represents the thirty-three persons of the group, some of whom are "just able to be up and about" and others of whom are "not quite up to the scratch" and others intermediate between these two states of being. Next we come to the thirty inches of the line spanning the zone of health between the 70 and 90 per cent levels of vitality and representing thirty persons who may be classified as healthy—neither impaired nor vigorous—but healthy. Then, finally,, we come to the last section of the line,, lying between the 90 and 97 per cent levels of life and representing twenty-members of the group who are vigorous in mind and body, who live on the heights of being, who are inspired with lofty views and high ideals, and who pursue their tasks with enthusiasm. You are suspended somewhere on such a life-line. You determine, very largely, your place on the life-line. There are few of us whose positions on the life-line are rigidly fixed by circumstance, who cannot by the alteration of some habit, by cutting out too-much tobacco, by regulating the diet, by properly apportioning work, rest,, and sleep, by better regulating waste elimination, few of us who cannot move up the social life-line to a higher level—10, 20, or 30 per cent higher. If there were some short-cut to moving into a lofty realm of being, some patent medicine that you might buy, what a price you would pay gladly! But there are no short-cuts by which to attain the physical ideal. We reach the heights of physical life by right |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-038.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | Your Opportunity for Health |
Article Author | Rankin, W. S. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-038 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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