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24 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH. « ''indolent" or *'good for nothing," and T cannot refrain from expressing surprise that any man should have twenty-five years' experience with them and use so little intelligence and acumen as to come to the conclusion that they are *'not worth trying to help." Since these people are peculiar to the South, in order to understand them it is necessary to understand certain other factors which are peculiar to this same region. There are three factors in particular which come into consideration, namely: (1) the area under discussion presents the most intense negro population of any part of the country; (2) this area also presents the area of most intense hookworm infection; and (3) the same area presents the most intense malaria infection of any i)ortion of the country. Tlie questicm now arises: In what relation do these four factors (the tenant white people, the negroes, hookworms, and malaria) stand to one another? I need not argue to you the fact that Ix)th hookworm disease and malaria are found both in the white and in the negro, for this is well established. I may, however, invite your especial attention to an important point, too often overlooked, namely, that these two great anemia-producing diseases which are so severe on the white are relatively less severe on the negro race. This fact, that the negro presents a reJative immunity to the physical effects of these two infections which are so common to his race, is one of very great importance, for it i)0ints us to a conclusion from which there is no escape, namely, that the negro race, forms a great reservoir for the supply of these infections. Take malaria, for instance. It is a well-established fact that the malaria parasite is exceedingly common in the blood of negroes. It is a fact of common knowledge, which can be easily verified by any doubting Thomas, that the negro does not trouble himself very much to screen against mosquitoes. What is the result? Since the negro does not suffer from the effects of this infection so severely as does the white, the negro is not so likely as the white to come under medical treatment; accordingly, he is more likely to form a source of infection to the mosquito; add to this the fact that he does not screen against mosquitoes so much as does the white, and it is clear that relatively he forms a greater source of infection to the mosquito than does the white. Now, let a v\'hite man take what precautions he will against malaria in his family, the mosquitoes in the negro's house on the back street still form for this white man's family a source of danger, over which he has practically no control. The conclusion is evident: Theoretically and practically, the negro race, living side by side with the white race, is, when viewed from the standpoint of malaria, a great and serious reservoir of infection. Take next hookworm disease. A given infection with this disease may put a white person in his grave or may make him so sick that
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1907-1908 |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1907-1908 |
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Volume Number | 12 |
Page Number | 24 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 24 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH. « ''indolent" or *'good for nothing" and T cannot refrain from expressing surprise that any man should have twenty-five years' experience with them and use so little intelligence and acumen as to come to the conclusion that they are *'not worth trying to help." Since these people are peculiar to the South, in order to understand them it is necessary to understand certain other factors which are peculiar to this same region. There are three factors in particular which come into consideration, namely: (1) the area under discussion presents the most intense negro population of any part of the country; (2) this area also presents the area of most intense hookworm infection; and (3) the same area presents the most intense malaria infection of any i)ortion of the country. Tlie questicm now arises: In what relation do these four factors (the tenant white people, the negroes, hookworms, and malaria) stand to one another? I need not argue to you the fact that Ix)th hookworm disease and malaria are found both in the white and in the negro, for this is well established. I may, however, invite your especial attention to an important point, too often overlooked, namely, that these two great anemia-producing diseases which are so severe on the white are relatively less severe on the negro race. This fact, that the negro presents a reJative immunity to the physical effects of these two infections which are so common to his race, is one of very great importance, for it i)0ints us to a conclusion from which there is no escape, namely, that the negro race, forms a great reservoir for the supply of these infections. Take malaria, for instance. It is a well-established fact that the malaria parasite is exceedingly common in the blood of negroes. It is a fact of common knowledge, which can be easily verified by any doubting Thomas, that the negro does not trouble himself very much to screen against mosquitoes. What is the result? Since the negro does not suffer from the effects of this infection so severely as does the white, the negro is not so likely as the white to come under medical treatment; accordingly, he is more likely to form a source of infection to the mosquito; add to this the fact that he does not screen against mosquitoes so much as does the white, and it is clear that relatively he forms a greater source of infection to the mosquito than does the white. Now, let a v\'hite man take what precautions he will against malaria in his family, the mosquitoes in the negro's house on the back street still form for this white man's family a source of danger, over which he has practically no control. The conclusion is evident: Theoretically and practically, the negro race, living side by side with the white race, is, when viewed from the standpoint of malaria, a great and serious reservoir of infection. Take next hookworm disease. A given infection with this disease may put a white person in his grave or may make him so sick that |
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