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159 The Health Bulletin September, 1951 include health administrators, epidemiologists, public health laboratory experts, public health nurses, health educators, biostatisticians, nutritionists, and industrial and sanitary engineers. For the key administrative and professional positions, there is urgent need for physicians who have the additional postgraduate training and experience required by the recently established American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. The training required is now available only in the 10 accredited schools of public health. At present these schools are graduating only about one-fifth of the specialists needed to fill key positions in the peacetime civilian health program of the country. This makes it clear that the national emergency will call for the recruitment of many additional health specialists and for expansion of the fac- ilities for their postgraduate training. Although my subject has been military preventive medicine, I have dealth at some length with civilian public health because experience in both fields has taught me that the two are fundamentally similar and interrelated. They differ only in certain details of administration and application. The expert in military preventive medicine and the civilian public health specialist both operate by applying fundamental knowledge for the prevention of disease in their respective populations. They both need research aimed at the solution of unsolved problems. Civilian health has always influenced military health, and the reverse is also true. Today's emergency, which demands the mobilization of the entire nation, brings the military preventive medicine specialist and the civilian public health specialist more closely together than ever before. POLIOMYELITIS By W. Howard Wilson, M.D. Raleigh, N. C. In spite of the fact that it cripples less than one-fiftieth as many people as rheumatic fever, and in spite of the fact that only one child in a million contracts it, poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is one of the most feared of all diseases. While the medical profession has much knowledge of the way in which it is spread, there is still much more to be learned. There is no cure in the strict sense of the word, but there is much that can be done by proper treatment. Our first line of defense against an invasion of infantile paralysis is knowledge, from an immediate and practical point of view, of what can be done to anticipate and prepare for an epidemic and of the precautions that should be taken at such a time. We also need further knowledge of the cause of infantile paralysis, its means of spread, and improved methods of treatment. New facts have been learned and new methods have been developed, but much still remains to be done before infantile paralysis can be removed finally and completely from the list of great crippling diseases. The hot summer months are generally regarded as the polio season, because the disease usually picks up momentum during that season. Scientists cannot explain why, but there are theories that the virus which causes polio spreads more rapidly when the weather is hot. So far there have been very few cases of poliomyelitis in Raleigh and Wake County this year. The modern term used by physicians and other professional people is poliomyelitis, and this is often called polio for the sake of brevity. Poliomyelitis is aptly named, for polio means gray, myelos means spinal cord or marrow, and itis means inflammation. Inflammation of the gray matter of the central nervous system is the characteristic nervous system abnormality of this disease. Infantile paralysis is the term
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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 | 1951 |
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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 | 66 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 12 |
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 | 1951 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-066-0158 |
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 | 66 |
Issue Number | 8 |
Page Number | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 159 The Health Bulletin September, 1951 include health administrators, epidemiologists, public health laboratory experts, public health nurses, health educators, biostatisticians, nutritionists, and industrial and sanitary engineers. For the key administrative and professional positions, there is urgent need for physicians who have the additional postgraduate training and experience required by the recently established American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. The training required is now available only in the 10 accredited schools of public health. At present these schools are graduating only about one-fifth of the specialists needed to fill key positions in the peacetime civilian health program of the country. This makes it clear that the national emergency will call for the recruitment of many additional health specialists and for expansion of the fac- ilities for their postgraduate training. Although my subject has been military preventive medicine, I have dealth at some length with civilian public health because experience in both fields has taught me that the two are fundamentally similar and interrelated. They differ only in certain details of administration and application. The expert in military preventive medicine and the civilian public health specialist both operate by applying fundamental knowledge for the prevention of disease in their respective populations. They both need research aimed at the solution of unsolved problems. Civilian health has always influenced military health, and the reverse is also true. Today's emergency, which demands the mobilization of the entire nation, brings the military preventive medicine specialist and the civilian public health specialist more closely together than ever before. POLIOMYELITIS By W. Howard Wilson, M.D. Raleigh, N. C. In spite of the fact that it cripples less than one-fiftieth as many people as rheumatic fever, and in spite of the fact that only one child in a million contracts it, poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is one of the most feared of all diseases. While the medical profession has much knowledge of the way in which it is spread, there is still much more to be learned. There is no cure in the strict sense of the word, but there is much that can be done by proper treatment. Our first line of defense against an invasion of infantile paralysis is knowledge, from an immediate and practical point of view, of what can be done to anticipate and prepare for an epidemic and of the precautions that should be taken at such a time. We also need further knowledge of the cause of infantile paralysis, its means of spread, and improved methods of treatment. New facts have been learned and new methods have been developed, but much still remains to be done before infantile paralysis can be removed finally and completely from the list of great crippling diseases. The hot summer months are generally regarded as the polio season, because the disease usually picks up momentum during that season. Scientists cannot explain why, but there are theories that the virus which causes polio spreads more rapidly when the weather is hot. So far there have been very few cases of poliomyelitis in Raleigh and Wake County this year. The modern term used by physicians and other professional people is poliomyelitis, and this is often called polio for the sake of brevity. Poliomyelitis is aptly named, for polio means gray, myelos means spinal cord or marrow, and itis means inflammation. Inflammation of the gray matter of the central nervous system is the characteristic nervous system abnormality of this disease. Infantile paralysis is the term |
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Article Title | Poliomyelitis |
Article Author | Wilson, W. Howard |
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