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6 The Health Bulletin Maij, 192' Xeics Letter is ri^lit. Our high rate is disgraceful. The State Board of Health, the different city and countj- boards of health, and numerous organizations independent of either of these have been hammering on the question for a number of years; but, like the editor of the Xetcs Letter says, ignorance of the care of infants remains as the chief cause of this high mortality. One of the chief troubles is in reaching the mothers of infants and imparting to them in language that they can understand a knowledge of the care that infants should have. If any dairyman or hog raiser or trucker or cotton planter or poultryman or lumberman were co go about their business each summer with as little accurate information and as little system and care as some of the families undertake to bring children into the world and to rear them, the whole business fabric of the State would go bankrupt in one year. It used to be said that a farmer or a farm laborer was generally a man who did not have sense enough to do anything else, in short, a clodhopper, piddling around just outside the insane asylum walls. Of course, this was a travesty on an occupation that requires more brains and more hard work to make a living at than any other occupation or profession in the world. People are finding that out now. But such a designation would certainly seem to apply to a lot of people who undertake to raise children. A llaby is the only animal in the world that is absolutely Helpless from birth. For the first few years of life it is completely dependent on the care of somebody else for every act required to maintain its existence. Even a little chick, before it is twenty-four hours old, can dart around and dodge danger and pick up items of food, but a baby is completely helpless. If the mother is ignorant of the fact that polluted water contains germs dangerous to the baby's life, or that contaminated milk also contains bacilli that mean death to the infant, no power in the world can save that particular child when given such water or such milk from the consequences which follow. We like to think of this problem as largely an economical one, which, of course, it is to a certain extent, but not altogether by a great deal. There are many babies succumbing each year, due to sheer ignorance and carelessness on the part of their parents. To attribute all of this mortality to poverty, people in easy circumstances, who boast of plenty of this world's goods, always like to mention the fact that we have the poor with us all the time, just as if the mere fact that poor people exist was an excuse for failure to extend to such people the necessary care and helpful interest which they must have. Our interest is equally acute toward both classes—the very ix)or and ignorant and the better-off though ignorant parent—this for the fact that mortality JUST BACK FROM SAND MAX LAND ''Life, what is it but a dream?" is mortality, and that a baby is just as bad off if it belongs in a home of well-to-do parents who are ignorant of its care, even though they love it better than life itself, as the baby in a home of poverty-stricken parents who love it just as strongly and who are ignorant of its care, and do not have the means to improve its condition. Either baby is equally helpless. Naturally there is a great deal less excuse for the well-to-do parent being ignorant than there is for the very poor parent. In the first place, the very poor mother is obliged to work to help make a living. This fact becomes all the more solemn to contemplate when we realize that a big majority of people have to be concerned very seriously for their daily bread each day. The problem of unemployment, of poor crops, of sickness
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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 | 1927 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-042 |
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 | 42 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 6 (image) |
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 | 1927 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-042-0140 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; photo; report/review |
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 | 42 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 6 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 6 The Health Bulletin Maij, 192' Xeics Letter is ri^lit. Our high rate is disgraceful. The State Board of Health, the different city and countj- boards of health, and numerous organizations independent of either of these have been hammering on the question for a number of years; but, like the editor of the Xetcs Letter says, ignorance of the care of infants remains as the chief cause of this high mortality. One of the chief troubles is in reaching the mothers of infants and imparting to them in language that they can understand a knowledge of the care that infants should have. If any dairyman or hog raiser or trucker or cotton planter or poultryman or lumberman were co go about their business each summer with as little accurate information and as little system and care as some of the families undertake to bring children into the world and to rear them, the whole business fabric of the State would go bankrupt in one year. It used to be said that a farmer or a farm laborer was generally a man who did not have sense enough to do anything else, in short, a clodhopper, piddling around just outside the insane asylum walls. Of course, this was a travesty on an occupation that requires more brains and more hard work to make a living at than any other occupation or profession in the world. People are finding that out now. But such a designation would certainly seem to apply to a lot of people who undertake to raise children. A llaby is the only animal in the world that is absolutely Helpless from birth. For the first few years of life it is completely dependent on the care of somebody else for every act required to maintain its existence. Even a little chick, before it is twenty-four hours old, can dart around and dodge danger and pick up items of food, but a baby is completely helpless. If the mother is ignorant of the fact that polluted water contains germs dangerous to the baby's life, or that contaminated milk also contains bacilli that mean death to the infant, no power in the world can save that particular child when given such water or such milk from the consequences which follow. We like to think of this problem as largely an economical one, which, of course, it is to a certain extent, but not altogether by a great deal. There are many babies succumbing each year, due to sheer ignorance and carelessness on the part of their parents. To attribute all of this mortality to poverty, people in easy circumstances, who boast of plenty of this world's goods, always like to mention the fact that we have the poor with us all the time, just as if the mere fact that poor people exist was an excuse for failure to extend to such people the necessary care and helpful interest which they must have. Our interest is equally acute toward both classes—the very ix)or and ignorant and the better-off though ignorant parent—this for the fact that mortality JUST BACK FROM SAND MAX LAND ''Life, what is it but a dream?" is mortality, and that a baby is just as bad off if it belongs in a home of well-to-do parents who are ignorant of its care, even though they love it better than life itself, as the baby in a home of poverty-stricken parents who love it just as strongly and who are ignorant of its care, and do not have the means to improve its condition. Either baby is equally helpless. Naturally there is a great deal less excuse for the well-to-do parent being ignorant than there is for the very poor parent. In the first place, the very poor mother is obliged to work to help make a living. This fact becomes all the more solemn to contemplate when we realize that a big majority of people have to be concerned very seriously for their daily bread each day. The problem of unemployment, of poor crops, of sickness |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-042.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-042 |
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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