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236 THE inKALTH BULLETIN sixteen less than for the same period of last year, according to statistics on file in the office of the State Board of Health at Raleigh. Dr. D. C. Absher returned Friday from attending a meeting in the offices of the board in that city, and while there examined the records for his county. According to the rating of human lives at $1,700 each, the total saving to the county, in so far as a life can be measured in dollars and cents, is $27,200 for the sixteen lives saved to the county. While efforts of the whole-time health officer have not covered altogether every form of disease and ailment of human kind in this section, it is to the success of the vigorous campaign in the interest of health that is attributed the credit for this improved showing in the county's mortality rate.—Henderson Gold Leaf. CAUSE AND CURE OF PELLAGRA Announcement of Important Discoyery by the United States Public Healtli Service YY] NNOUNCEMENT was made re-tl cently at the Treasury Depart-ment that as a result of continued research and experiments of the Public Health Service, both the cause and the cure of pellagra have been discovered, and that the spread of this dread malady, which has been increasing in the United States at a terrific rate during the past few years, may now be checked and eventually eradicated. Assistant Secretary Newton, in charge of the Public Health Service, expressed great interest in the discovery and regards it as one of the most important achievements of medical science in recent years. Pellagra has been increasing alarmingly throughout the United States during the last eight years, and it is estimated that 75,000 cases of the disease will have occurred in the United States in 1915, and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the end of the year. In many sections only tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death. The final epoch-making experiment of the Public Health Service was carried out at the farm of the Mississippi . State Penitentiary, about eight miles-east of Jackson, Miss., and together with the previous work of the Service completes the chain in the prevention i and cure of the disease. The work at the Mississippi farm has been in charge of Surgeon Joseph Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon G. A. Wheeler of the United States Public Health Service. The farm consists of 3,200 acres, in the center of which is the convict camp. The final experiment was undertaken for the purpose of testing the possibility of producing pellagra in healthy human white adult males by a restricted, one-sided, mainly carbo-hydrate (cereal) diet. Of eleven convicts who volunteered for this experiment, six developed a typical dermatitis and mild nervous gastro-intestinal symptoms. Experts, including Dr. E. H. Galloway, the secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Health, Dr. Nolan Stewart, formerly superintendent of the Mississippi State Hospital for the Insane at Jackson, Dr. Marcus Hause, professor of dermatology, Medical College of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn., and Dr. Martin R. Engman, professor of dermatology in the Washington Medical School, St. Louis, Mo., declare that the disease which was produced was true pellagra. Prior to the commencement of these experiments no history could be found of the occurrence of pellagra on the penitentiary farm. On this farm are 75 or 80 convicts. Governor Earl Brewer offered to pardon twelve of the convicts who would volunteer for the experiment. They w^ere assured that they would receive proper care throughout the experiment, and treatment should it be necessary. The diet given was bountiful and more than sufficient to sustain life. It differed from that given the other convicts ' merely in the absence of meats, milk, eggs, beans, peas, and similar proteid | foods. In every other particular the
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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. |
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Volume Number | 30 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 236 |
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-04-030-0242 |
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. |
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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 | 10 |
Page Number | 236 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 236 THE inKALTH BULLETIN sixteen less than for the same period of last year, according to statistics on file in the office of the State Board of Health at Raleigh. Dr. D. C. Absher returned Friday from attending a meeting in the offices of the board in that city, and while there examined the records for his county. According to the rating of human lives at $1,700 each, the total saving to the county, in so far as a life can be measured in dollars and cents, is $27,200 for the sixteen lives saved to the county. While efforts of the whole-time health officer have not covered altogether every form of disease and ailment of human kind in this section, it is to the success of the vigorous campaign in the interest of health that is attributed the credit for this improved showing in the county's mortality rate.—Henderson Gold Leaf. CAUSE AND CURE OF PELLAGRA Announcement of Important Discoyery by the United States Public Healtli Service YY] NNOUNCEMENT was made re-tl cently at the Treasury Depart-ment that as a result of continued research and experiments of the Public Health Service, both the cause and the cure of pellagra have been discovered, and that the spread of this dread malady, which has been increasing in the United States at a terrific rate during the past few years, may now be checked and eventually eradicated. Assistant Secretary Newton, in charge of the Public Health Service, expressed great interest in the discovery and regards it as one of the most important achievements of medical science in recent years. Pellagra has been increasing alarmingly throughout the United States during the last eight years, and it is estimated that 75,000 cases of the disease will have occurred in the United States in 1915, and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the end of the year. In many sections only tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death. The final epoch-making experiment of the Public Health Service was carried out at the farm of the Mississippi . State Penitentiary, about eight miles-east of Jackson, Miss., and together with the previous work of the Service completes the chain in the prevention i and cure of the disease. The work at the Mississippi farm has been in charge of Surgeon Joseph Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon G. A. Wheeler of the United States Public Health Service. The farm consists of 3,200 acres, in the center of which is the convict camp. The final experiment was undertaken for the purpose of testing the possibility of producing pellagra in healthy human white adult males by a restricted, one-sided, mainly carbo-hydrate (cereal) diet. Of eleven convicts who volunteered for this experiment, six developed a typical dermatitis and mild nervous gastro-intestinal symptoms. Experts, including Dr. E. H. Galloway, the secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Health, Dr. Nolan Stewart, formerly superintendent of the Mississippi State Hospital for the Insane at Jackson, Dr. Marcus Hause, professor of dermatology, Medical College of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn., and Dr. Martin R. Engman, professor of dermatology in the Washington Medical School, St. Louis, Mo., declare that the disease which was produced was true pellagra. Prior to the commencement of these experiments no history could be found of the occurrence of pellagra on the penitentiary farm. On this farm are 75 or 80 convicts. Governor Earl Brewer offered to pardon twelve of the convicts who would volunteer for the experiment. They w^ere assured that they would receive proper care throughout the experiment, and treatment should it be necessary. The diet given was bountiful and more than sufficient to sustain life. It differed from that given the other convicts ' merely in the absence of meats, milk, eggs, beans, peas, and similar proteid | foods. In every other particular the |
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