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The Heai^th Bulletin 13 A concrete example will make some of the possibilities of organized effort clearer. Let us take a county of 500 square miles, 25 x 20 miles. The county seat is near the center of the county, and the population is approximately 30,000. There are twenty-four active practitioners in the county. Each one of these doctors agrees to speak or to read an address or a paper which the county medical society secures through himself or through some one else, and which the society has censored, approved and adopted as its own statement. Now note that the address is not that of the doctor who gives it or reads it, but is the address of the society. The physician agrees to give this address or read the paper at twelve points in the county during the year, filling one appointment during each month. A committee of the medical society working with the local Red Cross Chapter or the county welfare officer, or both, arrange for the audience. Not less than two physicians address each audience. Two physicians and two subjects draw a larger group of people than one speaker and one subject. This is a reasonable and needed public service from the individual doctor, which is made possible with the county medical society normally sensitive to public as well as private needs. Such a program would provide twenty-four public addresses each month or 288 public addresses during the year. Such a program with an average audience of only 100 persons would reach 28,800 people or ninety-five per cent of the total population of the county during the year. Such a program would embrace such subjects as (1) Physical Condition of People Generally; (2) Importance of Periodic Physical Examinations; (3) What People Should Know About Infections; (4) Value of Vaccines and Antitoxins; (5) What People Should Know About Tuberculosis; (6) What People Should Know About Cancer; (7) Sex Hygiene (for men); (8) Venereal Diseases (for men); (9) Sex Hygiene (for women); (10) Venereal Diseases (for women); (11) Maternity; (12) Care of the Baby; (13) Surgical Conditions of the Abdomen, "Indigestion and Liver Complaint"; (14) Constipation; (15) Focal Infection; (16) Heachaches; (17) Heart and Arterial Diseases; (18) Kidney Diseases; (19) Principles of Nutrition; (20) Pellagra and Diabetes; (21) Relation of Teeth to Health; (22) Relation of Nose and Throat to Health; (23) Relation of Eyes to Health; (24) The Quacks and Sects; and (25) Patent Medicines. A list of subjects like the above would include ninety per cent of the information which the public needs. Such a program within a year or so will increase twenty to forty per cent public appreciation of medical science and the use of those who dispense it. It will improve the earning capacity of the people of the county to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and will increase the income of the profession by thousands of dollars. In short, it pays both parties, the public and the profession, in terms of the higher satisfactions of life and in cold hard cash. Such a program will be more effective in one year than all the educational work of the State and local health departments in five years. Such a program affords the only way, and a very effective way, for dealing with chiropractic. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." But the knowledge of truth which frees from disease and quacks must come through the preacher, the preacher of physical salvation in the here and the now. The question of supplying the medical services for the now increased demand on the part of the public presents itself. The greater demand for medical science having been brought about by more effective medical organization, the greater supply must be provided, likewise, through carefully planned organized effort. Now in dealing with this matter of greater demand for medical services it is well, for the sake of a clearer understanding, to consider it from two points of view.
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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 | 1922 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-037 |
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 | 37 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 13 |
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 | 1922 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-037-0131 |
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 | healthbulletinse37nort_0131.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 | 37 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 13 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | The Heai^th Bulletin 13 A concrete example will make some of the possibilities of organized effort clearer. Let us take a county of 500 square miles, 25 x 20 miles. The county seat is near the center of the county, and the population is approximately 30,000. There are twenty-four active practitioners in the county. Each one of these doctors agrees to speak or to read an address or a paper which the county medical society secures through himself or through some one else, and which the society has censored, approved and adopted as its own statement. Now note that the address is not that of the doctor who gives it or reads it, but is the address of the society. The physician agrees to give this address or read the paper at twelve points in the county during the year, filling one appointment during each month. A committee of the medical society working with the local Red Cross Chapter or the county welfare officer, or both, arrange for the audience. Not less than two physicians address each audience. Two physicians and two subjects draw a larger group of people than one speaker and one subject. This is a reasonable and needed public service from the individual doctor, which is made possible with the county medical society normally sensitive to public as well as private needs. Such a program would provide twenty-four public addresses each month or 288 public addresses during the year. Such a program with an average audience of only 100 persons would reach 28,800 people or ninety-five per cent of the total population of the county during the year. Such a program would embrace such subjects as (1) Physical Condition of People Generally; (2) Importance of Periodic Physical Examinations; (3) What People Should Know About Infections; (4) Value of Vaccines and Antitoxins; (5) What People Should Know About Tuberculosis; (6) What People Should Know About Cancer; (7) Sex Hygiene (for men); (8) Venereal Diseases (for men); (9) Sex Hygiene (for women); (10) Venereal Diseases (for women); (11) Maternity; (12) Care of the Baby; (13) Surgical Conditions of the Abdomen, "Indigestion and Liver Complaint"; (14) Constipation; (15) Focal Infection; (16) Heachaches; (17) Heart and Arterial Diseases; (18) Kidney Diseases; (19) Principles of Nutrition; (20) Pellagra and Diabetes; (21) Relation of Teeth to Health; (22) Relation of Nose and Throat to Health; (23) Relation of Eyes to Health; (24) The Quacks and Sects; and (25) Patent Medicines. A list of subjects like the above would include ninety per cent of the information which the public needs. Such a program within a year or so will increase twenty to forty per cent public appreciation of medical science and the use of those who dispense it. It will improve the earning capacity of the people of the county to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and will increase the income of the profession by thousands of dollars. In short, it pays both parties, the public and the profession, in terms of the higher satisfactions of life and in cold hard cash. Such a program will be more effective in one year than all the educational work of the State and local health departments in five years. Such a program affords the only way, and a very effective way, for dealing with chiropractic. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." But the knowledge of truth which frees from disease and quacks must come through the preacher, the preacher of physical salvation in the here and the now. The question of supplying the medical services for the now increased demand on the part of the public presents itself. The greater demand for medical science having been brought about by more effective medical organization, the greater supply must be provided, likewise, through carefully planned organized effort. Now in dealing with this matter of greater demand for medical services it is well, for the sake of a clearer understanding, to consider it from two points of view. |
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Article Title | Annual Report of the Secretary of the North Carolina Board of Health |
Article Author | Rankin, W. S. |
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