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102 THE HEALTH BUI.LETII^ know a place that needs looking over worse than this town." The first general impression of the above might be that it was done in the spirit of knocking, but when it is known that this town has the fifth highest death rate from typhoid fever of any town in the State and that it has five times as much typhoid fever as it is due to have if it had only as much as the average town in the United States, it is readily seen that these citizens have some kick coming. For this same town the death records show that it had twenty deaths from tuberculosis. This means that it has at least a hundred cases in the town all the time, or an annual cost of $100,000. This amount, of course, does not include the twenty lives lost which represent a value of $60,000. Is it any wonder the citizens are up in arms? Yet the county in which this is the largest town, not long ago voted down the proposition of a whole time county health officer. The grounds on which this was done was poverty—lack of sufficient means to pay a good man for giving his whole time to stamping out disease and keeping the people well. The cost of tuberculosis alone in that town would pay fifty-three whole-time health officers a salary of $3,000 annually; or the cost of the typhoid fever cases and deaths for last year would pay the salary of a health officer over sixteen times. Nursing Staff of the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis
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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 | 1915-1916 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-030 |
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 | 30 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-030.pdf |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-030 |
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 96 (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 | 1915-1916 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-030-0102 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; photo; 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 | healthbulletinse30nort_0102.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 | 30 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 96 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 102 THE HEALTH BUI.LETII^ know a place that needs looking over worse than this town." The first general impression of the above might be that it was done in the spirit of knocking, but when it is known that this town has the fifth highest death rate from typhoid fever of any town in the State and that it has five times as much typhoid fever as it is due to have if it had only as much as the average town in the United States, it is readily seen that these citizens have some kick coming. For this same town the death records show that it had twenty deaths from tuberculosis. This means that it has at least a hundred cases in the town all the time, or an annual cost of $100,000. This amount, of course, does not include the twenty lives lost which represent a value of $60,000. Is it any wonder the citizens are up in arms? Yet the county in which this is the largest town, not long ago voted down the proposition of a whole time county health officer. The grounds on which this was done was poverty—lack of sufficient means to pay a good man for giving his whole time to stamping out disease and keeping the people well. The cost of tuberculosis alone in that town would pay fifty-three whole-time health officers a salary of $3,000 annually; or the cost of the typhoid fever cases and deaths for last year would pay the salary of a health officer over sixteen times. Nursing Staff of the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-030.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-030 |
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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