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30. up their afternoon so a certain community could have a club. The spokesman for the group said, "On our community tpur down there last week, we realized those people are missing much and have not had the work that we would like for them to have in a specialized form." From there we are developing a very active Home Demonstration Club. Along with our recreation program come the spring, winter, fall, summer sports that give participation for all members of families. And I do feel that in some cases maybe our health problems have been lessened by the fact that peoples1 minds were diverted into other channels rather than staying home to brood on themselves or whatever problems they might have there. Recreation does play a very vital part. Now, as some of the results are being noted from this community development program, we will say that we do have a good per cent of our farms electrified, about 98 per centj and in this period of time, twelve additional communities have been able to secure telephone services with about 1400 families being involved. Now all major communities have this service. I think one of the interesting outgrowths of our program from the spiritual vaUuelast year was the back-to-church movement. If you have not read the August issue of the "World Outlook," you might be interested in seeing how rural people cooperated with the Ministerial Association in order to have a wonderful county-wide revival so to speak and encouragement to go back to church. In working with the health program, our community development program sponsored one day the Red Cross Blood Bank. And with having this type of cooperation, we were able to secure 367 pints of blood in one day, or the largest amount that had been collected in one day in western North Carolina. They also worked closely and, I think, carried through on the educational program which made it possible to pass a bond election to add a hundred-bed addition to the county-wide hospital, as well as to pass a two-million dollar school bond issue. But to centralize our thinking, one of the greatest outgrowths of this community development program, has been our rural insurance program. I said that one of the major objectives was an increased per capita income. Many of you will think of that in dollars and cents - for corn, tobacco, or whatever it may be. But increased income can come from a prepaid hospital insurance program. And by working very steadily with the several agencies, we do have now a well-established, I think, insurance program where 1565 farm families do have prepaid hospital insurance. It is a very great benefit to the rural people to have this security and assurance. It was only Friday of last week that one homemaker in a Home Demonstration Club asked if she might speak a word for the hospital insurance and to say just what it had meant to her family. Her son had an accident, a very serious automobile accident, had been hospitalized 71 days, and of course, 70 days of that had been cared for. So she really had something to speak from and said how much it had meant materially to her family. To sum up all we have said, the community development program does have possibilities or the functioning for carrying through on any of the major programs of health improvement. And Dr. Bond, it is a privilege to have had a chance to tell this story.
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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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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 30 |
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-108-005-0075 |
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 | 30 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 30. up their afternoon so a certain community could have a club. The spokesman for the group said, "On our community tpur down there last week, we realized those people are missing much and have not had the work that we would like for them to have in a specialized form." From there we are developing a very active Home Demonstration Club. Along with our recreation program come the spring, winter, fall, summer sports that give participation for all members of families. And I do feel that in some cases maybe our health problems have been lessened by the fact that peoples1 minds were diverted into other channels rather than staying home to brood on themselves or whatever problems they might have there. Recreation does play a very vital part. Now, as some of the results are being noted from this community development program, we will say that we do have a good per cent of our farms electrified, about 98 per centj and in this period of time, twelve additional communities have been able to secure telephone services with about 1400 families being involved. Now all major communities have this service. I think one of the interesting outgrowths of our program from the spiritual vaUuelast year was the back-to-church movement. If you have not read the August issue of the "World Outlook" you might be interested in seeing how rural people cooperated with the Ministerial Association in order to have a wonderful county-wide revival so to speak and encouragement to go back to church. In working with the health program, our community development program sponsored one day the Red Cross Blood Bank. And with having this type of cooperation, we were able to secure 367 pints of blood in one day, or the largest amount that had been collected in one day in western North Carolina. They also worked closely and, I think, carried through on the educational program which made it possible to pass a bond election to add a hundred-bed addition to the county-wide hospital, as well as to pass a two-million dollar school bond issue. But to centralize our thinking, one of the greatest outgrowths of this community development program, has been our rural insurance program. I said that one of the major objectives was an increased per capita income. Many of you will think of that in dollars and cents - for corn, tobacco, or whatever it may be. But increased income can come from a prepaid hospital insurance program. And by working very steadily with the several agencies, we do have now a well-established, I think, insurance program where 1565 farm families do have prepaid hospital insurance. It is a very great benefit to the rural people to have this security and assurance. It was only Friday of last week that one homemaker in a Home Demonstration Club asked if she might speak a word for the hospital insurance and to say just what it had meant to her family. Her son had an accident, a very serious automobile accident, had been hospitalized 71 days, and of course, 70 days of that had been cared for. So she really had something to speak from and said how much it had meant materially to her family. To sum up all we have said, the community development program does have possibilities or the functioning for carrying through on any of the major programs of health improvement. And Dr. Bond, it is a privilege to have had a chance to tell this story. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-108/nchh-108-005.pdf |
Document Sort | all; nchh-108 |
Article Title | Progress Parade - Haywood County |
Article Author | Mary Cornwell |
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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