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145 The Health Bulletin November, 1955 gram over conquered problems, for, with the tremendous technilogical developments of our age, have come new areas of environmental health hazards, any of which rank as equally serious problems as any approached to date. We hear much of the significance of housing to one phase of the health of a community, and additional activities with radiological health hazards, air and water pollution, the effect of noise on health, industrial sanitation, and home and farm accident prevention must be initiated if sanitation programs are to keep pace with the changing patterns of community health and sickness. It is significant to note that many of these new problems can be approached only after considerable specialized training; however, public health safety specialists have been encouraged over the high degree of correlation between sound sanitation practices and forceful home safety activities. This would suggest that with a minimum of in-service training, existing sanitation staffs can initiate safety activities, the importance of which has been cited by numerous public health authorities. Accident prevention, then, one of the newest of public health programs, offers a most fertile tool by which to further sanitation. Sanitarians are not as much concerned with why people choose to make improvements in sanitation as they are that they make them. If a person changes some hazardous environmental condition in order to eliminate an accident hazard and it favorably alters some condition affecting the surrounding sanitation, then the ultimate end is the same as if the correction had been made solely to improve sanitation. The importance of this observation is that most of the time people will be motivated to make necessary changes if they can be shown that it might eliminate hazards to them personally. Everyone is more concerned wth things that touch him directly rather than how his end product, for example, may effect other people. To illustrate how accident preven- tion can play an important role in the improvement of sanitation, let's consider some accident-producing environmental conditions on the dairy farm. First of all, one is likely to find uncovered holes or slick surfaces on graded levels around the barn that may result in cows' slipping and injuring their udders. The concrete slab leading into the milking barn is a good example and is notorious for getting worn down and slick. These falls may result in mastitis. They not only mean an economic loss to the farmer but may also mean illness for persons drinking the milk. However, the farmer or employee himself may fall and break a leg in these same holes or ditches or on the same slick surfaces. Therefore, if some accident prevention work is done with an eye toward protecting the farmer, it could indirectly improve his milk product. How closely one can measure this type of thing as preventing sickness and disability remains to be seen; however, it seems logical to believe that accident prevention and sanitation show a marked correlation. The similarity is obvious when thinking of things like discarded pit privies. If these are properly filled in, that lessens the possibility of spreading disease; however, it also keeps people from accidentally falling into them. When thinking of insect and rodent control on the dairy farm, the State Board of Health in North Carolina is furthering one project which, although designed to prevent mosquito breeding, also prevents many home accidents. This is the inspection of every home and farm pond and stressing that all tree stumps and other obstructions be completely cleared from the pond bed. The regulation only requires these stumps to be a certain number of inches below the fluctuating water level so as to prevent vegetation from accumulating around them, with resultant mosquito breeding. However, emphasis is being plaoed on complete clearing of the pond bed. This is using a double-barrel gun, inasmuch as it does accomplish the primary purpose
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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 | 1955 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-070 |
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 | 70 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 6 |
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 | 1955 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-070-0144 |
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 | healthbulletinse70nort_0144.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 | 70 |
Issue Number | 8 |
Page Number | 6 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 145 The Health Bulletin November, 1955 gram over conquered problems, for, with the tremendous technilogical developments of our age, have come new areas of environmental health hazards, any of which rank as equally serious problems as any approached to date. We hear much of the significance of housing to one phase of the health of a community, and additional activities with radiological health hazards, air and water pollution, the effect of noise on health, industrial sanitation, and home and farm accident prevention must be initiated if sanitation programs are to keep pace with the changing patterns of community health and sickness. It is significant to note that many of these new problems can be approached only after considerable specialized training; however, public health safety specialists have been encouraged over the high degree of correlation between sound sanitation practices and forceful home safety activities. This would suggest that with a minimum of in-service training, existing sanitation staffs can initiate safety activities, the importance of which has been cited by numerous public health authorities. Accident prevention, then, one of the newest of public health programs, offers a most fertile tool by which to further sanitation. Sanitarians are not as much concerned with why people choose to make improvements in sanitation as they are that they make them. If a person changes some hazardous environmental condition in order to eliminate an accident hazard and it favorably alters some condition affecting the surrounding sanitation, then the ultimate end is the same as if the correction had been made solely to improve sanitation. The importance of this observation is that most of the time people will be motivated to make necessary changes if they can be shown that it might eliminate hazards to them personally. Everyone is more concerned wth things that touch him directly rather than how his end product, for example, may effect other people. To illustrate how accident preven- tion can play an important role in the improvement of sanitation, let's consider some accident-producing environmental conditions on the dairy farm. First of all, one is likely to find uncovered holes or slick surfaces on graded levels around the barn that may result in cows' slipping and injuring their udders. The concrete slab leading into the milking barn is a good example and is notorious for getting worn down and slick. These falls may result in mastitis. They not only mean an economic loss to the farmer but may also mean illness for persons drinking the milk. However, the farmer or employee himself may fall and break a leg in these same holes or ditches or on the same slick surfaces. Therefore, if some accident prevention work is done with an eye toward protecting the farmer, it could indirectly improve his milk product. How closely one can measure this type of thing as preventing sickness and disability remains to be seen; however, it seems logical to believe that accident prevention and sanitation show a marked correlation. The similarity is obvious when thinking of things like discarded pit privies. If these are properly filled in, that lessens the possibility of spreading disease; however, it also keeps people from accidentally falling into them. When thinking of insect and rodent control on the dairy farm, the State Board of Health in North Carolina is furthering one project which, although designed to prevent mosquito breeding, also prevents many home accidents. This is the inspection of every home and farm pond and stressing that all tree stumps and other obstructions be completely cleared from the pond bed. The regulation only requires these stumps to be a certain number of inches below the fluctuating water level so as to prevent vegetation from accumulating around them, with resultant mosquito breeding. However, emphasis is being plaoed on complete clearing of the pond bed. This is using a double-barrel gun, inasmuch as it does accomplish the primary purpose |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-070.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | Accident Hazards Found on Dairy Farms |
Article Author | Seagle, Edgar F. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-070 |
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