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The Health Bulletin April, 1936 euts for the school system to be guilty of subjecting them to any such temptation. The State Board of Health would suggest that wherever such practice as above described exists that it be discontinued at once. W/"E hate the role of a kill-joy or " critic because nobody in the world, not even a baseball umpire, is hated so consistently as a critic; but it is necessary for some things to be said once in a while—in a constructive way, of course—which might eventually bring about the elimination of certain habits that are undesirable. Today, while we are buzzing around as a gadfly, we want to urge the people in charge of the school system and the parent-teacher associations to be scrupuously careful in accepting any kind of offer through which they may be able to make a little money. One of our nurses was horrified last spring at a largely attended parent-teacher meeting in a county seat town. They put on that afternoon a kind of special health program. The nurse had been invited to talk, and did. The children put on a little health play, which was good, and a brief report was made by the nurse and others of the work that had been done for the health of the children in the schools. The meeting was then climaxed by the appearance on the platform of the wife of one of the most prominent citizens in town, giving a report of how much money they had received, made by selling one of the most detestable purgative drugs now on the market, flying wide and handsome under a fancy name. We will not advertise the stuff by calling the name, except to say that it is horse medicine which generally sells for about a dime a i>ound, but put up in a pretty package under a disguised name it sells for $1.50 a pound. This stuff is dangerous to use in excess over a long period. The fact is, we have reports of at least one death in which prolapse of the bowel in an elderly person first occurred, leading on to a hopeless condition which was ended by death. And in the second place, the exploitation of such drugs has no place in a parent-teacher program or in a school curriculum. We would advise folks to stick to soap coupons—no matter what they may do to clothes, they will not upset permanently the digestive system of the members of the family—or to magazine subscriptions or some other form of gentle graft. It is hopeless to try to educate people to the dangers and the foolishness surromiding the patent medicine industry^ when the school system leads off and teaches the children in their most formative years that all such stuff is respectable and legitimate business. In reporting the incident the nurse takes a crack at many schools which have been teaching sanitation "from a book" for years in many of the schools, white and colored, where there is none practiced whatever. In this connection we repeat again what we have already published a time or two in the Health Bulletin — the occasion when the late Charles L. Coon, one of the great school men of North Carolina, who was superintendent of the Wilson city and county schools for so long, walked into a grade room one morning and found the teacher and the children all busily engaged studying hygiene and sanitation in "the book." Mr. Coon glanced around the room and saw that the broom had not been used in some time. He noted the dirt piled in the corners of the room, the scraps of paper and the general disorder and dirty condition. Without a word, he took the book from the teacher, walked around the room, gathered up all the copies of "physiology and hygiene," took them in his arms, and at the door he said, "We I
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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 | 1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-051 |
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 | 51 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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 | 1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-051-0058 |
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. |
Filename | healthbulletinse51nort_0058.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 | 51 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 4 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | The Health Bulletin April, 1936 euts for the school system to be guilty of subjecting them to any such temptation. The State Board of Health would suggest that wherever such practice as above described exists that it be discontinued at once. W/"E hate the role of a kill-joy or " critic because nobody in the world, not even a baseball umpire, is hated so consistently as a critic; but it is necessary for some things to be said once in a while—in a constructive way, of course—which might eventually bring about the elimination of certain habits that are undesirable. Today, while we are buzzing around as a gadfly, we want to urge the people in charge of the school system and the parent-teacher associations to be scrupuously careful in accepting any kind of offer through which they may be able to make a little money. One of our nurses was horrified last spring at a largely attended parent-teacher meeting in a county seat town. They put on that afternoon a kind of special health program. The nurse had been invited to talk, and did. The children put on a little health play, which was good, and a brief report was made by the nurse and others of the work that had been done for the health of the children in the schools. The meeting was then climaxed by the appearance on the platform of the wife of one of the most prominent citizens in town, giving a report of how much money they had received, made by selling one of the most detestable purgative drugs now on the market, flying wide and handsome under a fancy name. We will not advertise the stuff by calling the name, except to say that it is horse medicine which generally sells for about a dime a i>ound, but put up in a pretty package under a disguised name it sells for $1.50 a pound. This stuff is dangerous to use in excess over a long period. The fact is, we have reports of at least one death in which prolapse of the bowel in an elderly person first occurred, leading on to a hopeless condition which was ended by death. And in the second place, the exploitation of such drugs has no place in a parent-teacher program or in a school curriculum. We would advise folks to stick to soap coupons—no matter what they may do to clothes, they will not upset permanently the digestive system of the members of the family—or to magazine subscriptions or some other form of gentle graft. It is hopeless to try to educate people to the dangers and the foolishness surromiding the patent medicine industry^ when the school system leads off and teaches the children in their most formative years that all such stuff is respectable and legitimate business. In reporting the incident the nurse takes a crack at many schools which have been teaching sanitation "from a book" for years in many of the schools, white and colored, where there is none practiced whatever. In this connection we repeat again what we have already published a time or two in the Health Bulletin — the occasion when the late Charles L. Coon, one of the great school men of North Carolina, who was superintendent of the Wilson city and county schools for so long, walked into a grade room one morning and found the teacher and the children all busily engaged studying hygiene and sanitation in "the book." Mr. Coon glanced around the room and saw that the broom had not been used in some time. He noted the dirt piled in the corners of the room, the scraps of paper and the general disorder and dirty condition. Without a word, he took the book from the teacher, walked around the room, gathered up all the copies of "physiology and hygiene" took them in his arms, and at the door he said, "We I |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-051.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-051 |
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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