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February, 1959 The Health Bulletin 11 example, how much is it worth to you and your children: to avoid being the victim of a food poisoning outbreak because the restaurant was inspected properly; to be assured that your child will not likely contract polio or some other communicable disease because immunization and other control measures wrere adequate; to avoid the necessity of a painful series of antirabic treatments because the biting dog was properly vaccinated against rabies and the stray dog eliminated by the dog warden; to be assured that your family physician has available adequate State Laboratory diagnostic service for cancer and the newly discovered virus diseases; to know that the occupational hazards (perhaps in your job) in use of new and complex chemicals in industries are being constantly studied, evaluated and eliminated where possible; to know that facilities are available in the community to find the tuberculosis cases early; to have the advantages of an extended dental health program in the schools; to provide for nutritionally better diets in our schools and institutions; to prevent accidental poisoning, drowning or burning (possibly your child); to have at your finger tips accurate recorded vital public health statistical data needed so often in our modern living.,, Our people know that more illnesses and injuries are becoming preventable and expect the provision of these newly available preventive health services. It takes more skilled workers to improve school health such as control of disease spread, correct defects, and assure better heating, lighting, ventilation and sanitation of more school lunch rooms. Among other services that require more time, skill and expense are: more immunizations against more diseases; more septic tanks instead of privies; more nurse follow-up under supervision of private physicians as hospital stay is shortened for general, tuberculosis, and mental patients; supervision of larger water and milk sheds and a wider sale area for shellfish, meat and poultry products; better laboratory aids through virol- ogy, cytology and radiation tests. Better health and higher income flourish together. Your State and local health boards and staffs have a responsibility to see and foresee and interpret health needs for you. What you decide to do with your share of responsibility for preventive health services will have a bearing on happiness and progress in our State. Summary of budget request. The sums of $3,022,141 for the fiscal year 1959-60, and $3,042,236 for the fiscal year 1960-61 were recommended, which is $15,001 less for the biennium than the requested appropriations which were contained in our original "A" Budget request. We were dismayed to find that none of our "B" Budget request was recommended, which was to provide for improvements in State health services and for aid to local health departments. We have renewed our request that the $15,001 decrease be restored and that the additional sums for the expansion of public health services be approved which represent a total request of $1,163,352 for 1959-60 and $1,192,193 for 1960-61, or a total of $2,355,545 for the biennium. These requested increases, which are exclusive of medical care and tuberculosis and mental hospitals, are needed now to remove some of the unfavorable comparison with neighbor states as shown by a Public Health Survey for fiscal 1958 to be as follows: Georgia $1.73, Florida $1.49, Virginia $1.27, Kentucky $0.98, Tennessee $0.89, South Carolina $0.85, Mississippi $0.81 and North Carolina $0,70. We feel that the requests are modest and that they represent one of the soundest investments that the State could make. It is so much more economical to pre-^ vent illness or injury and postpone death. Major requests. This request of $2,-355,545 for the biennium can be briefly summarized. The bulk of the request is for local health services in the amount of $870,915 per year, which is divided as follows: payments to counties (for additional personnel) $663,000 (14.7 cents per capita per year to total
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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 | 1959 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-074 |
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 | 74 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 3 |
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 | 1959 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-074-0045 |
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 | healthbulletinse74nort_0045.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 | 74 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 3 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | February, 1959 The Health Bulletin 11 example, how much is it worth to you and your children: to avoid being the victim of a food poisoning outbreak because the restaurant was inspected properly; to be assured that your child will not likely contract polio or some other communicable disease because immunization and other control measures wrere adequate; to avoid the necessity of a painful series of antirabic treatments because the biting dog was properly vaccinated against rabies and the stray dog eliminated by the dog warden; to be assured that your family physician has available adequate State Laboratory diagnostic service for cancer and the newly discovered virus diseases; to know that the occupational hazards (perhaps in your job) in use of new and complex chemicals in industries are being constantly studied, evaluated and eliminated where possible; to know that facilities are available in the community to find the tuberculosis cases early; to have the advantages of an extended dental health program in the schools; to provide for nutritionally better diets in our schools and institutions; to prevent accidental poisoning, drowning or burning (possibly your child); to have at your finger tips accurate recorded vital public health statistical data needed so often in our modern living.,, Our people know that more illnesses and injuries are becoming preventable and expect the provision of these newly available preventive health services. It takes more skilled workers to improve school health such as control of disease spread, correct defects, and assure better heating, lighting, ventilation and sanitation of more school lunch rooms. Among other services that require more time, skill and expense are: more immunizations against more diseases; more septic tanks instead of privies; more nurse follow-up under supervision of private physicians as hospital stay is shortened for general, tuberculosis, and mental patients; supervision of larger water and milk sheds and a wider sale area for shellfish, meat and poultry products; better laboratory aids through virol- ogy, cytology and radiation tests. Better health and higher income flourish together. Your State and local health boards and staffs have a responsibility to see and foresee and interpret health needs for you. What you decide to do with your share of responsibility for preventive health services will have a bearing on happiness and progress in our State. Summary of budget request. The sums of $3,022,141 for the fiscal year 1959-60, and $3,042,236 for the fiscal year 1960-61 were recommended, which is $15,001 less for the biennium than the requested appropriations which were contained in our original "A" Budget request. We were dismayed to find that none of our "B" Budget request was recommended, which was to provide for improvements in State health services and for aid to local health departments. We have renewed our request that the $15,001 decrease be restored and that the additional sums for the expansion of public health services be approved which represent a total request of $1,163,352 for 1959-60 and $1,192,193 for 1960-61, or a total of $2,355,545 for the biennium. These requested increases, which are exclusive of medical care and tuberculosis and mental hospitals, are needed now to remove some of the unfavorable comparison with neighbor states as shown by a Public Health Survey for fiscal 1958 to be as follows: Georgia $1.73, Florida $1.49, Virginia $1.27, Kentucky $0.98, Tennessee $0.89, South Carolina $0.85, Mississippi $0.81 and North Carolina $0,70. We feel that the requests are modest and that they represent one of the soundest investments that the State could make. It is so much more economical to pre-^ vent illness or injury and postpone death. Major requests. This request of $2,-355,545 for the biennium can be briefly summarized. The bulk of the request is for local health services in the amount of $870,915 per year, which is divided as follows: payments to counties (for additional personnel) $663,000 (14.7 cents per capita per year to total |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-074.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | Public Health - A State Responsibility |
Article Author | Norton, J. W. R. |
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Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
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