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12. been in the doctor's office! The next was a child about four or five years old who had drunk kerosene oil. Well, keep kerosene oil and other dangerous agents out of the way of small children! The third was a child four years old who had stepped on a nail. All boards with nails in them should be put aside - not left lying around the yard for small children to step onJ Three simple things - yet they all had to come to a doctor because in their immediate homes they had neglected just the common-sense principles of good living and good health. Well, that night between eleven and twelve (it always happens, you know, just about the time you get ready to go to bed), I got called out into the country to see a child, a two-year old child with the croup. Well, we got there; we woke the child up so I could examine him. The mother said, "I knew he was going to have the croup because day before yesterday afternoon when it was raining, he went with his father down to the tobacco barn, barefooted and bareheaded. I knew he was going to have an attack of the croup." Well, after I had administered to the child and she put him back to bed, she reached under the bed and found his bottle lying under the bed and got it out and handed it to him. I said, "Well, is that baby still on the bottle?" and she said, "Yes." I said, "You just leave it lying around that way?" She said, "Well, I didn't see a fly on it," and that reminds me when I came in the front door, the screen door was propped back open. There were flies all over the bed and all over the kitchen table. Well, there we are. On the way back home, I began to wonder, "Why are those things?" After as much has been said in North Carolina through our public health programs and through our doctors, why was that? Why would a woman this day and time have the screen door propped open and let the flies in the house? Why the bottle under the bed? In fact, why a two-year old child on the bottle when he should have been weaned long ago? Then I thought of something that I had read a rew days before. It seems that someone recently asked Governor Warren of California, "Governor, have you folks ever figured out how it was that you and Governor Dewey got defeated in l�lt8 when it looked to everybody like you were going to be elected?" He said, "Yes, I think so. We didn't repeat ourselves enough. We made a lot of speeches and we talked about various things. Governor Dewey made from about twelve to fourteen major addresses - each one of them on a pertinent subject but a different subject. Well, along about that time came President Truman along his Whistle Stop Tour. He didn't have much of a program. He only had one speech but he spread that all over the land. He made it day in and day out. 'The Republicans are mean people. The do-nothing 80th Congress is the worst Congress we ever had. The Taft-Hartley Act is a slave labor law. We've got to repeal it. The Republicans want to go back to the days of Hoover and McKinley. The Devil will get you if you vote for the Republicans]' Well, the President went up and down the land (this is Governor Warren talking) preaching that thing, repeating it day in and day out almost hour after hour. Apparently the people believed it because they voted for him and elected him." So maybe after all, our program here of rural health or health anywhere is one of repetition. Maybe we have just got to repeat ourselves. Just keep saying: Don't throw boards around for children to step on. Don't leave kerosene and other dangerous agents around for children to drink. Wear shoes, and better than that, do as our Rural Health Committee is doing and Charlotte Rickman is doing, go to the individual communities and meet with the people and help the people and teach them to repeat those things
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-108: Annual Rural Health Conference [19??-?] |
Document Title | Annual Rural Health Conference [19??-?] |
Subject Topical Other | Rural Health -- Congresses. |
Contributor | North Carolina Health Council.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Committee on Rural Health.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1952. ; Raleigh, N.C. : The Society, 1954. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1952 |
Identifier | NCHH-108-005 |
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 | 5 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-108 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2259023 ; http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2259022 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 12 |
Document Title | Annual Rural Health Conference [19??-?] |
Subject Topical Other | Rural Health -- Congresses. |
Contributor | North Carolina Health Council.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Committee on Rural Health.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1952. ; Raleigh, N.C. : The Society, 1954. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1952 |
Identifier | NCHH-108-005-0039 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; 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. |
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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 | 5 |
Page Number | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 12. been in the doctor's office! The next was a child about four or five years old who had drunk kerosene oil. Well, keep kerosene oil and other dangerous agents out of the way of small children! The third was a child four years old who had stepped on a nail. All boards with nails in them should be put aside - not left lying around the yard for small children to step onJ Three simple things - yet they all had to come to a doctor because in their immediate homes they had neglected just the common-sense principles of good living and good health. Well, that night between eleven and twelve (it always happens, you know, just about the time you get ready to go to bed), I got called out into the country to see a child, a two-year old child with the croup. Well, we got there; we woke the child up so I could examine him. The mother said, "I knew he was going to have the croup because day before yesterday afternoon when it was raining, he went with his father down to the tobacco barn, barefooted and bareheaded. I knew he was going to have an attack of the croup." Well, after I had administered to the child and she put him back to bed, she reached under the bed and found his bottle lying under the bed and got it out and handed it to him. I said, "Well, is that baby still on the bottle?" and she said, "Yes." I said, "You just leave it lying around that way?" She said, "Well, I didn't see a fly on it" and that reminds me when I came in the front door, the screen door was propped back open. There were flies all over the bed and all over the kitchen table. Well, there we are. On the way back home, I began to wonder, "Why are those things?" After as much has been said in North Carolina through our public health programs and through our doctors, why was that? Why would a woman this day and time have the screen door propped open and let the flies in the house? Why the bottle under the bed? In fact, why a two-year old child on the bottle when he should have been weaned long ago? Then I thought of something that I had read a rew days before. It seems that someone recently asked Governor Warren of California, "Governor, have you folks ever figured out how it was that you and Governor Dewey got defeated in l�lt8 when it looked to everybody like you were going to be elected?" He said, "Yes, I think so. We didn't repeat ourselves enough. We made a lot of speeches and we talked about various things. Governor Dewey made from about twelve to fourteen major addresses - each one of them on a pertinent subject but a different subject. Well, along about that time came President Truman along his Whistle Stop Tour. He didn't have much of a program. He only had one speech but he spread that all over the land. He made it day in and day out. 'The Republicans are mean people. The do-nothing 80th Congress is the worst Congress we ever had. The Taft-Hartley Act is a slave labor law. We've got to repeal it. The Republicans want to go back to the days of Hoover and McKinley. The Devil will get you if you vote for the Republicans]' Well, the President went up and down the land (this is Governor Warren talking) preaching that thing, repeating it day in and day out almost hour after hour. Apparently the people believed it because they voted for him and elected him." So maybe after all, our program here of rural health or health anywhere is one of repetition. Maybe we have just got to repeat ourselves. Just keep saying: Don't throw boards around for children to step on. Don't leave kerosene and other dangerous agents around for children to drink. Wear shoes, and better than that, do as our Rural Health Committee is doing and Charlotte Rickman is doing, go to the individual communities and meet with the people and help the people and teach them to repeat those things |
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Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-108/nchh-108-005.pdf |
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Article Title | A Message From North Carolina Doctors |
Article Author | J. Street Brewer |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-108-005 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-108 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2259023 ; http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2259022 |
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