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4 The Health Bulletin September, 1958 situation as intolerable. They, along with women leaders and business and industrial leaders, proceeded to do something about it. Research and its prompt and wide application were supported. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, the filth-borne intestinal diseases and insect spread diseases along with maternal and infant-childhood cripplers and killers were brought under relative control. Today an equally intolerable situation exists in our deaths, our crippling and staggering economic burden from diseases of the heart and blood vessels, cancer, arthritis, obesity, diabetes, nephritis, accidents and mental disorders. Most viral infections are unresponsive to present miracle drugs and staphylococcal infections and other serious disorders may follow the use of some. Coordinated, intelligent, and unselfish teamwork was effective against the common infections. Progress was slower than it need be now since we can avoid some of our earlier mistakes. It should not be considered heresy to consider teamwork desirable against our present intolerable situation with degenerative diseases, accidents and mental disorders. Fee-for-service private practice will retain its relative freedom far more effectively through again welcoming intelligent teamwork than by striking blindly at friend and foe alike as third party encroachers. Three major overall public health adjustments have occurred during the decade: 1. Administrative reorganization in 1950 reducing the divisions from fourteen to seven with Water Pollution Control, the eighth, added in 1957; 2. Recodification revision of public health laws by the 1957 General Assembly; and 3. Combined budget—federal, state, local—increased from $2,684,277 for fiscal 1948 to $10,960,027 for fiscal 1958. During this time the State staff has increased 246 to 380 and local em- ployees from 878 to 1186. Funds to private physicians with assisting personnel and hospitals have increased from $371,177.00 to $1,057,447.00 or 184.9%. Federal funds have increased $2,421,-209.00 to $3,007,784.00 or 24.2% State funds have increased $862,264.00 to $2,993,810.00 or 247.2%, and local funds have increased $2,125,385.00 to $5,334,-965.00 or 151.0%. It is also noteworthy , that the Cooper Memorial Health . Building was completed and occupied in 1954 and will be fully air conditioned next month. Our most severe polio epidemic of 1948, the series of hurricanes in 1954 and 1955 and the Asian influenza outbreak of 1957 have presented emergency challeges that have put North Carolina's State Board of Health and local health departments to acid tests. We serve many agencies to avoid costly duplication. In our State Board of Health Administration there are eight major divisions comprising about thirty sections. These divisions are: Central Administration, Epidemiology, Laboratory, Local Health Administration, Oral Hygiene, Personal Health, Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control. I. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION Central Administration has been directly under the State Health Director until a week ago when a Director of Administrative Services was employed. One of the earliest changes made almost ten years ago was to streamline and centralize budget operations, mailing, shipping and receiving and also central files, multilithing and the film library and personnel. The Publicity Officer added in 1953 the Asheville Station WWNC to his regular weekly broadcasts over WPTF.1 He has been increasingly helpful in Medical Society as well as Health publicity particularly for meetings and feature articles. The Medical-Public Health Library. was established in 1954 by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Visits to the Library, loans of material
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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 | 1958 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-073 |
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 | 73 |
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 4 |
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 | 1958 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-073-0070 |
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 | healthbulletinse73nort_0070.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 | 73 |
Issue Number | 6 |
Page Number | 4 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 4 The Health Bulletin September, 1958 situation as intolerable. They, along with women leaders and business and industrial leaders, proceeded to do something about it. Research and its prompt and wide application were supported. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, the filth-borne intestinal diseases and insect spread diseases along with maternal and infant-childhood cripplers and killers were brought under relative control. Today an equally intolerable situation exists in our deaths, our crippling and staggering economic burden from diseases of the heart and blood vessels, cancer, arthritis, obesity, diabetes, nephritis, accidents and mental disorders. Most viral infections are unresponsive to present miracle drugs and staphylococcal infections and other serious disorders may follow the use of some. Coordinated, intelligent, and unselfish teamwork was effective against the common infections. Progress was slower than it need be now since we can avoid some of our earlier mistakes. It should not be considered heresy to consider teamwork desirable against our present intolerable situation with degenerative diseases, accidents and mental disorders. Fee-for-service private practice will retain its relative freedom far more effectively through again welcoming intelligent teamwork than by striking blindly at friend and foe alike as third party encroachers. Three major overall public health adjustments have occurred during the decade: 1. Administrative reorganization in 1950 reducing the divisions from fourteen to seven with Water Pollution Control, the eighth, added in 1957; 2. Recodification revision of public health laws by the 1957 General Assembly; and 3. Combined budget—federal, state, local—increased from $2,684,277 for fiscal 1948 to $10,960,027 for fiscal 1958. During this time the State staff has increased 246 to 380 and local em- ployees from 878 to 1186. Funds to private physicians with assisting personnel and hospitals have increased from $371,177.00 to $1,057,447.00 or 184.9%. Federal funds have increased $2,421,-209.00 to $3,007,784.00 or 24.2% State funds have increased $862,264.00 to $2,993,810.00 or 247.2%, and local funds have increased $2,125,385.00 to $5,334,-965.00 or 151.0%. It is also noteworthy , that the Cooper Memorial Health . Building was completed and occupied in 1954 and will be fully air conditioned next month. Our most severe polio epidemic of 1948, the series of hurricanes in 1954 and 1955 and the Asian influenza outbreak of 1957 have presented emergency challeges that have put North Carolina's State Board of Health and local health departments to acid tests. We serve many agencies to avoid costly duplication. In our State Board of Health Administration there are eight major divisions comprising about thirty sections. These divisions are: Central Administration, Epidemiology, Laboratory, Local Health Administration, Oral Hygiene, Personal Health, Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control. I. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION Central Administration has been directly under the State Health Director until a week ago when a Director of Administrative Services was employed. One of the earliest changes made almost ten years ago was to streamline and centralize budget operations, mailing, shipping and receiving and also central files, multilithing and the film library and personnel. The Publicity Officer added in 1953 the Asheville Station WWNC to his regular weekly broadcasts over WPTF.1 He has been increasingly helpful in Medical Society as well as Health publicity particularly for meetings and feature articles. The Medical-Public Health Library. was established in 1954 by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Visits to the Library, loans of material |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-073.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | A Decade of Public Health Adjustment in North Carolina |
Article Author | Norton, J. W. R. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-073 |
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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