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38 THE HEALTH BULLETIN 289^ THE NEWSPAPER AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH Extracts from an Address by Mr. Wade H. Harris before the North Carolina Medical Society at Durhaniy April 19, 1916 c HE banishment of liquor from the medicine chest accelerates the approach not only to a new and better standard in public health, but in the morals of the country. In recent days the world has stood in shocked and sorrowful contemplation of the god of war charioteering through a continent and leaving an overwhelming river of blood in his trail, but the weeping of the widows and the wailing of the orphans assailing his ears is only a faint echo against the tumultuous wave of anguish that has swept over the civilized nations for ages past in the wake of King Alcohol. Liquor has drenched the world in a volume of tears that would cleanse the battlefields of all peoples from every crimson stain. The changing condition is not being wrought because the doctor of today is possessed of more courage than the doctor of yesterday, but because he lives in the light of a better knowledge and has the assistance of the newspapers in spreading this light. The doctor is not making a fight on whiskey in the prohibition sense of the word. He is waging a campaign for temperance and health. It is a fight for health without alcohol. It is probable that the most conspicuous local service rendered the medical profession and the State by the newspapers has been in the typhoid fever campaign. At the outset there was encountered a prejudice that bid fair to balk the efforts of the doctors, but the papers inaugurated a campaign of education which was attended with excellent results. The State Board of Health, through the Laboratory of Hygiene, manufactured and furnished vaccine free of charge to the people of the State, and 12 entire counties were covered. In these 12 counties 51,824 people were given complete immunization from typhoid. The typhoid cases were brought down in those 12 counties from 175 in 1914 to 132 in 1915. In addition to the people treated in the counties named, fully 50,000 have had treatment by whole-time health officers and various organizations. A more striking illustration of the benefits of vaccination may be obtained by the experience of counties that conducted vaccination campaigns and counties that did not. Rutherford County was one of the latter. The typhoid death rate in that county increased 300 per cent during the time that the typhoid death rate in the adjoining county of Henderson, that had conducted a typhoid campaign, decreased 25 per cent. In consequence of a campaign conducted in Wayne County, its typhoid death rate was reduced 65 per cent. The adjoining county of Lenoir did nothing, and its death rate increased 25 per cent. Statistics for the vaccination campaign in the State as a whole are not yet available, but there is little doubt that the instances cited are fairly representative of results in other counties. Enough is known to make sure of the fact that in the assistance rendered the State Board of Health in so materially abating the typhoid fever menace and in so short a time the newspapers have proved themselves a boon to humanity. One of the proudest successes to the credit of the doctors of North Carolina is found in the establishment of
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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 | 1916-1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-031 |
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 | 31 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 38 |
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 | 1916-1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-031-0044 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article; article title |
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 | 31 |
Issue Number | 3 |
Page Number | 38 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 38 THE HEALTH BULLETIN 289^ THE NEWSPAPER AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH Extracts from an Address by Mr. Wade H. Harris before the North Carolina Medical Society at Durhaniy April 19, 1916 c HE banishment of liquor from the medicine chest accelerates the approach not only to a new and better standard in public health, but in the morals of the country. In recent days the world has stood in shocked and sorrowful contemplation of the god of war charioteering through a continent and leaving an overwhelming river of blood in his trail, but the weeping of the widows and the wailing of the orphans assailing his ears is only a faint echo against the tumultuous wave of anguish that has swept over the civilized nations for ages past in the wake of King Alcohol. Liquor has drenched the world in a volume of tears that would cleanse the battlefields of all peoples from every crimson stain. The changing condition is not being wrought because the doctor of today is possessed of more courage than the doctor of yesterday, but because he lives in the light of a better knowledge and has the assistance of the newspapers in spreading this light. The doctor is not making a fight on whiskey in the prohibition sense of the word. He is waging a campaign for temperance and health. It is a fight for health without alcohol. It is probable that the most conspicuous local service rendered the medical profession and the State by the newspapers has been in the typhoid fever campaign. At the outset there was encountered a prejudice that bid fair to balk the efforts of the doctors, but the papers inaugurated a campaign of education which was attended with excellent results. The State Board of Health, through the Laboratory of Hygiene, manufactured and furnished vaccine free of charge to the people of the State, and 12 entire counties were covered. In these 12 counties 51,824 people were given complete immunization from typhoid. The typhoid cases were brought down in those 12 counties from 175 in 1914 to 132 in 1915. In addition to the people treated in the counties named, fully 50,000 have had treatment by whole-time health officers and various organizations. A more striking illustration of the benefits of vaccination may be obtained by the experience of counties that conducted vaccination campaigns and counties that did not. Rutherford County was one of the latter. The typhoid death rate in that county increased 300 per cent during the time that the typhoid death rate in the adjoining county of Henderson, that had conducted a typhoid campaign, decreased 25 per cent. In consequence of a campaign conducted in Wayne County, its typhoid death rate was reduced 65 per cent. The adjoining county of Lenoir did nothing, and its death rate increased 25 per cent. Statistics for the vaccination campaign in the State as a whole are not yet available, but there is little doubt that the instances cited are fairly representative of results in other counties. Enough is known to make sure of the fact that in the assistance rendered the State Board of Health in so materially abating the typhoid fever menace and in so short a time the newspapers have proved themselves a boon to humanity. One of the proudest successes to the credit of the doctors of North Carolina is found in the establishment of |
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Article Title | The Newspaper and the Public Health |
Article Author | Harris, Wade H. |
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