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102 THE HEALTH BUI.LETII^ READS LIKE PATENT MEDICINE TESTDIOMAL Enthusiasm is not to be provoked as easily over warding off disease as it is over snatching some one out of the grave. In the first place we only conjecture what might have happened and don't really see the yawning grave as in the second case. But health work and the services of the State Board of Health are becoming to be more generally understood, accepted and appreciated by the people as a whole, and more and more are we receiving expressions of personal appreciation, as the following letter, for instance: State Board of Health, Raleiglij N, C. Gentlemen:—I write to show you my appreciation for your Health Bulletins. I have been in the mercantile business for the past fifteen years. Ten years ago I lost my health and tried three doctors and all kinds of patent medicines, and the more medicine I took the worse I got. I had about given up all hope of ever getting better until about one year ago I began to read your Health Bulletin and live according to its instructions. I am in good health now. I have gained 28 pounds, so I thank you all for the good you have done me. The Health Bulletin ought to be in every home in North Carolina and be read, and the instructions followed. Then the doctors would have less to do and the patent medicine men would have to go out of business. Yours truly. One hundred thousand North Carolinians will be immimized against typhoid before the summer is over. This means preventing 5,000 cases of typhoid and 300 deaths. At $200 per case and $1,700 per death, it represents a saving to the State of $1,510,000 for this one piece of health work. NAME THE BABY The Bureau of Vital Statistics finds that it can not afford the expense of sending out return postal cards for babies' names. About eighty thousand birth certificates are received a year and the greater part of them are without a baby's given name. To get these names by sending out return postal cards to the parents will cost this office in postage' and labor between sixteen hundred and two thousand dollars, w^hich amount alone is about one-fifth of the annual appropriation. The names of the babies are of no statistical value to the State, but are of great value to the children, as well as to the parents. In the future the parents will have to see that the names of their babies are properly recorded by giving the full name of the baby to the local registrar in the town or township in which the birth occurred. Supplemental certificates will be furnished by all local registrars so that all parents can be supplied with a certificate on which to report the name of the baby after the regular certificate has been sent in, if the baby^s name was not given on the original certificate. A proper record of each birth, with the baby's full name, is of so much | importance to the child that we hope j no parent will neglect to furnish the local registrar with this information as soon as it is possible for them to ! do so after the baby is named. Keep your body clean and don't forget your daily bath. Last year in New York City the State Department of Health made a vigorous campaign to reduce the baby death rate during the hot months. Through infant welfare stations that were established, through exhibits at fairs and by means of the public press, mothers were taught how to care for their babies and how to guard them against disease. The result was that seven hundred baby lives, under one year of age, were saved. Was the cam- ■ paign a success?
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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 |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 102 |
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-04-030-0108 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial |
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_0108.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 | 5 |
Page Number | 102 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 102 THE HEALTH BUI.LETII^ READS LIKE PATENT MEDICINE TESTDIOMAL Enthusiasm is not to be provoked as easily over warding off disease as it is over snatching some one out of the grave. In the first place we only conjecture what might have happened and don't really see the yawning grave as in the second case. But health work and the services of the State Board of Health are becoming to be more generally understood, accepted and appreciated by the people as a whole, and more and more are we receiving expressions of personal appreciation, as the following letter, for instance: State Board of Health, Raleiglij N, C. Gentlemen:—I write to show you my appreciation for your Health Bulletins. I have been in the mercantile business for the past fifteen years. Ten years ago I lost my health and tried three doctors and all kinds of patent medicines, and the more medicine I took the worse I got. I had about given up all hope of ever getting better until about one year ago I began to read your Health Bulletin and live according to its instructions. I am in good health now. I have gained 28 pounds, so I thank you all for the good you have done me. The Health Bulletin ought to be in every home in North Carolina and be read, and the instructions followed. Then the doctors would have less to do and the patent medicine men would have to go out of business. Yours truly. One hundred thousand North Carolinians will be immimized against typhoid before the summer is over. This means preventing 5,000 cases of typhoid and 300 deaths. At $200 per case and $1,700 per death, it represents a saving to the State of $1,510,000 for this one piece of health work. NAME THE BABY The Bureau of Vital Statistics finds that it can not afford the expense of sending out return postal cards for babies' names. About eighty thousand birth certificates are received a year and the greater part of them are without a baby's given name. To get these names by sending out return postal cards to the parents will cost this office in postage' and labor between sixteen hundred and two thousand dollars, w^hich amount alone is about one-fifth of the annual appropriation. The names of the babies are of no statistical value to the State, but are of great value to the children, as well as to the parents. In the future the parents will have to see that the names of their babies are properly recorded by giving the full name of the baby to the local registrar in the town or township in which the birth occurred. Supplemental certificates will be furnished by all local registrars so that all parents can be supplied with a certificate on which to report the name of the baby after the regular certificate has been sent in, if the baby^s name was not given on the original certificate. A proper record of each birth, with the baby's full name, is of so much | importance to the child that we hope j no parent will neglect to furnish the local registrar with this information as soon as it is possible for them to ! do so after the baby is named. Keep your body clean and don't forget your daily bath. Last year in New York City the State Department of Health made a vigorous campaign to reduce the baby death rate during the hot months. Through infant welfare stations that were established, through exhibits at fairs and by means of the public press, mothers were taught how to care for their babies and how to guard them against disease. The result was that seven hundred baby lives, under one year of age, were saved. Was the cam- ■ paign a success? |
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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