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12 The Health Bulletin Let us assume that we prevent only 18 per cent of deaths and sickness now due to fecal-borne diseases (an extremely conservative estimate) by enforcing the sanitary privy law. We would then prevent 365 deaths, one for each day in the year, and the occurrence of 63,000 cases of sickness. If the 365 lives saved are worth $1,-000 each, we shall have saved $365,-000 worth of human economic value. And if the 63,000 cases of sickness cost in doctors' bills, druggists' bills, nurses, time lost from labor, etc., $30 apiece, we shall have saved an additional $189,000; a total saving of $554,000 for the State. The question is simply this: Shall you pay to the State an annual inspection tax of 40c, or shalf the State lose annually in human economic values $554,000? A copy of the law will be sent to any person desiring it, upon request. (Signed) A. J. W. SANITARY PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVIES It is only in recent years that we have come to a truer and more thorough understanding of the meaning of sanitation and its life-saving principles. More recent still is the application of these principles in a wholesale manner to the daily life of the citizens of a community, to prevent the spread of disease. Typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhea, summer complaint, and certain other diseases have been proven to have their origin in human filth. That is, in plain English, any person who contracts one of these diseases has either eaten or drunk the body waste of some one else who had the disease. Repulsive as this may seem, it is nevertheless a daily occurrence in the majority of our homes, especially during the warm months, and it must be so as long as the insanitary privy remains in any community, as will be shown below. There is, therefore, no more simple and far reaching phase of sanitation than that dealing with the reduction of disease by means of sanitary construction and mainte- Fig. 1. North Carolina's battlefield. A battery of the enemy's automatic rapid-firing guns. Their firing range is at least 300 yards, and they are a particularly deadly weapon for the reason that they shoot in all directions with equal effectiveness.
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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 | 1919 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-034 |
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 | 34 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-034.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-034 |
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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Fixed Title * | Page 5 (image) |
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 | 1919 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-034-0011 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; photo; editorial; article; article title; 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 | healthbulletinse34nort_0011.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 | 34 |
Issue Number | 7 |
Page Number | 5 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 12 The Health Bulletin Let us assume that we prevent only 18 per cent of deaths and sickness now due to fecal-borne diseases (an extremely conservative estimate) by enforcing the sanitary privy law. We would then prevent 365 deaths, one for each day in the year, and the occurrence of 63,000 cases of sickness. If the 365 lives saved are worth $1,-000 each, we shall have saved $365,-000 worth of human economic value. And if the 63,000 cases of sickness cost in doctors' bills, druggists' bills, nurses, time lost from labor, etc., $30 apiece, we shall have saved an additional $189,000; a total saving of $554,000 for the State. The question is simply this: Shall you pay to the State an annual inspection tax of 40c, or shalf the State lose annually in human economic values $554,000? A copy of the law will be sent to any person desiring it, upon request. (Signed) A. J. W. SANITARY PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVIES It is only in recent years that we have come to a truer and more thorough understanding of the meaning of sanitation and its life-saving principles. More recent still is the application of these principles in a wholesale manner to the daily life of the citizens of a community, to prevent the spread of disease. Typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhea, summer complaint, and certain other diseases have been proven to have their origin in human filth. That is, in plain English, any person who contracts one of these diseases has either eaten or drunk the body waste of some one else who had the disease. Repulsive as this may seem, it is nevertheless a daily occurrence in the majority of our homes, especially during the warm months, and it must be so as long as the insanitary privy remains in any community, as will be shown below. There is, therefore, no more simple and far reaching phase of sanitation than that dealing with the reduction of disease by means of sanitary construction and mainte- Fig. 1. North Carolina's battlefield. A battery of the enemy's automatic rapid-firing guns. Their firing range is at least 300 yards, and they are a particularly deadly weapon for the reason that they shoot in all directions with equal effectiveness. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-034.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | The State-Wide Privy Law Explained |
Article Author | Miller, H. E.; Miller, K. E. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-034 |
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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