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April, 193-i The Health Bulletin 13 Says Doctors Must Study Alcoholic Problem AS doctors we must begin to think of promoting the cause of temperance, How often do we hear, when we are speaking of a certain man, ''A very bright man, but he drinks." Of my classmates in college, so far as I know, none of those who drank steadily is now living, and of those who were addicts to even a very mild degree, from the time the addiction became manifest none progressed or maintained his position. One of the greatest surgeons in the world, talking to me, said he had never known a surgeon of the first rank who was in the habit of using alcoholic drink. The medical men are many whose memories go back to the time not only of the corner saloon, but of several saloons in the middle of the block as well, where the American citizen who so desired could stop to spend his money and drink the shoes and stockings off his children's feet, and then go home to beat his wife. This was called an expression of personal liberty. Now that the prohibition act has been repealed, both wets and drys have agreed that the old-time saloon must not return, and this agreement of itself is worth what the prohibition experiment has cost us. It has been stated that during the period of prohibition more alcohol was consumed, peddled about as bootleg liquor, than before the Volstead Act was passed. For those of us who remember the old saloon days when a town of 10,000 had from fifteen to twenty saloons open for business from 5 o'clock in the morning to midnight, each wjih two or three bartenders, it is a little hard to believe that peddling bootleggers could turn loose the same amount of iiquor in a community, at least as far as the common man is concerned, as did the saloons, if this were the fact, certainly the liquor-cure institutions which fattened off the man who was trying to overcome his infirmity would not have disappeared so completely from the scene of action. My idea in bringing this matter to younger minds, because the future rests with you, is to see whether you cannot get at some answer to the alcohol problem, w^hich has seemed up to the present time to have aroused only sound and fury and controversy.—Dr. W. J. Mayo, in the Bulletin of the Mayo Clinic, Unenviable Position For Two Counties of Area TN a recent tabulation of census reports two counties of the Roanoke-Chowan area are but little removed from the bottom place among the counties of the State in their infant death rates for the year 1932. Hertford County is third from the bottom, only Lenoir and Perquimans having a higher infant death rate, and Bertie just ahead of Hertford; while Northampton gets a favorable position and Gates is listed as better than the average in the State. There is a wide margin between Hertford and Bertie death rates and that of its sister county, Northampton. Hertford, with 110.3 deaths out of every one thousand born, and Bertie with 109.1 of the one thousand dying before they reach the age of one year, are holding unenviable positions among the one hundred counties of the State. Northampton, on the other hand, with only 49 deaths out of every one thousand infants, gives proof of better health conditions than its neighbors; while Gates, with 60.1 deaths out of each one thousand born, ranks better than the average of 67.2. Without attempting to make explanation of the wide margin of separation, we are led to wonder if Northampton County cannot point to its whole-time health program as a leading factor in its showing in re-
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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 | 1934 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-049 |
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 | 49 |
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 | 1934 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-049-0067 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; 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 | 49 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 13 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | April, 193-i The Health Bulletin 13 Says Doctors Must Study Alcoholic Problem AS doctors we must begin to think of promoting the cause of temperance, How often do we hear, when we are speaking of a certain man, ''A very bright man, but he drinks." Of my classmates in college, so far as I know, none of those who drank steadily is now living, and of those who were addicts to even a very mild degree, from the time the addiction became manifest none progressed or maintained his position. One of the greatest surgeons in the world, talking to me, said he had never known a surgeon of the first rank who was in the habit of using alcoholic drink. The medical men are many whose memories go back to the time not only of the corner saloon, but of several saloons in the middle of the block as well, where the American citizen who so desired could stop to spend his money and drink the shoes and stockings off his children's feet, and then go home to beat his wife. This was called an expression of personal liberty. Now that the prohibition act has been repealed, both wets and drys have agreed that the old-time saloon must not return, and this agreement of itself is worth what the prohibition experiment has cost us. It has been stated that during the period of prohibition more alcohol was consumed, peddled about as bootleg liquor, than before the Volstead Act was passed. For those of us who remember the old saloon days when a town of 10,000 had from fifteen to twenty saloons open for business from 5 o'clock in the morning to midnight, each wjih two or three bartenders, it is a little hard to believe that peddling bootleggers could turn loose the same amount of iiquor in a community, at least as far as the common man is concerned, as did the saloons, if this were the fact, certainly the liquor-cure institutions which fattened off the man who was trying to overcome his infirmity would not have disappeared so completely from the scene of action. My idea in bringing this matter to younger minds, because the future rests with you, is to see whether you cannot get at some answer to the alcohol problem, w^hich has seemed up to the present time to have aroused only sound and fury and controversy.—Dr. W. J. Mayo, in the Bulletin of the Mayo Clinic, Unenviable Position For Two Counties of Area TN a recent tabulation of census reports two counties of the Roanoke-Chowan area are but little removed from the bottom place among the counties of the State in their infant death rates for the year 1932. Hertford County is third from the bottom, only Lenoir and Perquimans having a higher infant death rate, and Bertie just ahead of Hertford; while Northampton gets a favorable position and Gates is listed as better than the average in the State. There is a wide margin between Hertford and Bertie death rates and that of its sister county, Northampton. Hertford, with 110.3 deaths out of every one thousand born, and Bertie with 109.1 of the one thousand dying before they reach the age of one year, are holding unenviable positions among the one hundred counties of the State. Northampton, on the other hand, with only 49 deaths out of every one thousand infants, gives proof of better health conditions than its neighbors; while Gates, with 60.1 deaths out of each one thousand born, ranks better than the average of 67.2. Without attempting to make explanation of the wide margin of separation, we are led to wonder if Northampton County cannot point to its whole-time health program as a leading factor in its showing in re- |
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