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6 The Health Bulletin August, 194* the crude death rate, which was 9.6 in 1938, as compared with 8 in 1947, although the estimated population of the State during this period rose from 3,-492,000 to 3,718,000. Stating it in numerical terms, 33,599 North Carolinians died in 1938, as compared with only 29,925 last year, despite the population increase indicated above. During the period under consideration, there were, as previously stated, 62,531 deaths from heart disease alone, the rate having risen from 177.1 per one hundred thousand population to 201,.7, while the number of heart deaths last year was 7,501, compared with 6,184 a decade ago. There may be various explanations, but none of these will be discussed here. The increase in deaths from intracranial vascular lesions — called apoplexy, for the understanding of the lay public—has not been as great, the rate last year having been 90 per 100,000 population, as compared with the same rate in 1938. The nephritis death rate has actually decreased, having fallen from 86 ten years ago to 69.5 last year. Yet, this one of the "four horsemen" at least has held its place among the leading causes of death and combines with the other three in helping to claim more than half the people who die from all causes. When it comes to cancer, there is a different story. The gains that apoplexy and nephritis have failed to make, have been more than taken up by heart disease and cancer, deaths from the latter last year having numbered 2,759, as compared with 1,914 a decade ago, while the rate during this period has risen from 54.8 per 100,000 inhabitants to 74.2—and, at that, the North Carolina cancer death rate is far below the national average, due to the fact that our high birth rate has kept us a State of comparatively young people. Heart disease, apoplexy, and nephritis have not yet been brought into the group against which means for mass protection have been adopted. The best that can be done under present circumstances, is for the individual in middle and late life to consult his or her family physician regularly for the detection of danger signals, or symptoms which will enable the physician to give—in many cases, at least—advice that will prolong life and ward off the otherwise inevitable. Of course, we must all die, at one time or another. The man who commits suicide, deliberately takes time by the forelock. On the other hand, the man who neglects to secure competent medical advice, is trifling with his life. At least, he is guilty of neglect. Whether such neglect be wilful or innocent, the end result is the same. The tragic thing about human psychology is that it often takes the spectacular to bring people to a sense of duty toward themselves and their families. There is not a woman in North Carolina who would not take her baby across the State if she knew she could have it immunized against polio, which she cannot, at the present time. Yet, the same mother will often give no heed to those danger signals—corrective at first—which may make her baby an orphan. We can and we are doing something about cancer, as evidenced by the Statewide program of the detection clinics now being opened up. It is too early to either appraise—or forecast in connection with—this undertaking, but there is every reason for encouragement. If the people can be aroused to a sense of the importance of early diagnosis and treatment, while treatment will bring satisfactory results, the war against cancer will gain an irresistible impetus that will lead to final victory. Summed up, then, the new State Health Officer has pointed out one sound, fundamental fact: That, in human progress, we must often shift emphases, and above all, broaden our stakes.
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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 | 1948 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-063 |
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 | 63 |
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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 | 1948 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-063-0140 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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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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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 | 63 |
Issue Number | 8 |
Page Number | 6 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 6 The Health Bulletin August, 194* the crude death rate, which was 9.6 in 1938, as compared with 8 in 1947, although the estimated population of the State during this period rose from 3,-492,000 to 3,718,000. Stating it in numerical terms, 33,599 North Carolinians died in 1938, as compared with only 29,925 last year, despite the population increase indicated above. During the period under consideration, there were, as previously stated, 62,531 deaths from heart disease alone, the rate having risen from 177.1 per one hundred thousand population to 201,.7, while the number of heart deaths last year was 7,501, compared with 6,184 a decade ago. There may be various explanations, but none of these will be discussed here. The increase in deaths from intracranial vascular lesions — called apoplexy, for the understanding of the lay public—has not been as great, the rate last year having been 90 per 100,000 population, as compared with the same rate in 1938. The nephritis death rate has actually decreased, having fallen from 86 ten years ago to 69.5 last year. Yet, this one of the "four horsemen" at least has held its place among the leading causes of death and combines with the other three in helping to claim more than half the people who die from all causes. When it comes to cancer, there is a different story. The gains that apoplexy and nephritis have failed to make, have been more than taken up by heart disease and cancer, deaths from the latter last year having numbered 2,759, as compared with 1,914 a decade ago, while the rate during this period has risen from 54.8 per 100,000 inhabitants to 74.2—and, at that, the North Carolina cancer death rate is far below the national average, due to the fact that our high birth rate has kept us a State of comparatively young people. Heart disease, apoplexy, and nephritis have not yet been brought into the group against which means for mass protection have been adopted. The best that can be done under present circumstances, is for the individual in middle and late life to consult his or her family physician regularly for the detection of danger signals, or symptoms which will enable the physician to give—in many cases, at least—advice that will prolong life and ward off the otherwise inevitable. Of course, we must all die, at one time or another. The man who commits suicide, deliberately takes time by the forelock. On the other hand, the man who neglects to secure competent medical advice, is trifling with his life. At least, he is guilty of neglect. Whether such neglect be wilful or innocent, the end result is the same. The tragic thing about human psychology is that it often takes the spectacular to bring people to a sense of duty toward themselves and their families. There is not a woman in North Carolina who would not take her baby across the State if she knew she could have it immunized against polio, which she cannot, at the present time. Yet, the same mother will often give no heed to those danger signals—corrective at first—which may make her baby an orphan. We can and we are doing something about cancer, as evidenced by the Statewide program of the detection clinics now being opened up. It is too early to either appraise—or forecast in connection with—this undertaking, but there is every reason for encouragement. If the people can be aroused to a sense of the importance of early diagnosis and treatment, while treatment will bring satisfactory results, the war against cancer will gain an irresistible impetus that will lead to final victory. Summed up, then, the new State Health Officer has pointed out one sound, fundamental fact: That, in human progress, we must often shift emphases, and above all, broaden our stakes. |
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Article Title | A Look at Degenerative Diseases |
Article Author | Richardson, William H. |
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