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26 ^OllTll CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH. (5) Those nueinia-producing diseases are especially severe on the white, hut relatively less severe on the negro. To my mind, the foregoing combination of facts leads inevitably to the conclnsion that the white race in the South is living under a hygienic handicap which is not paralleled in any other part of the country, and, were it not for the greater intelligence and better financial condition of the whites, whereby they are able to protect themselves mcn-e or less against these diseases by sanitary measures, it would be only a rpiestion of a few generations before this handicap would exterminate the whites from those portions of the South which are especially favorable to these infections. The whites of higher education and in better financial condition are able to protect themselves against this handicap, the burden of which has, therefore, fallen more especially upon that class (namely, the rural white tenant class) which has been kept in financial impoverishment through generations of competition with negro labor; and the result is exactly what theory demands it should be, namely, the present impoverished physical condition of so many thousands of the tenant white people, especially those living in the sandy and mountainous districts, where the sanitary arrangements are so inferior. The physical condition of these people can be appreciated only by persons who have been among them. Those of us who have lived among them need not be surprised to find their blood from 10 to 70 per cent below normal, nor need we be surprised, upon entering a poor farm hovel, to foresee death, in many instances, in 40 per cent of the children (namely, 2 of the 5, or 4 of the 10 children of the family) before they reach twenty-one years of age. I visited one farm on which I found father, mother, five children, and fifteen children's graves. I asked the physician what had killed these fifteen children, and he replied: "I do not know what the disease is, but if you can tell me what is killing iliat rjirl there, you will know what killed the other fifteen children." ''That girl there'' was a severe case of hookworm disease, in the dirt-eating stage. Think of it, gentlemen; 75 per cent of the rising generation of this family had already paid the extreme penalty of soil pollution, and one further member of the family already had one foot in the gravel Gentlemen, let any one call me a theorist if he will, but, in all fairness to the tenant white class of the rural sand and piney-woods districts of the South, let him first see the sights I have seen before he makes fun of those people and before he jokes about their sick and dying women and children. Before any man who claims to be humane considers these people "lazy," ''good for nothing" and "not worth trying to help," let him reflect upon the following statistics, based on about 10,000 examinations I have recently made among this class of people:
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
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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Language | English |
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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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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 | 12 |
Page Number | 26 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 26 ^OllTll CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH. (5) Those nueinia-producing diseases are especially severe on the white, hut relatively less severe on the negro. To my mind, the foregoing combination of facts leads inevitably to the conclnsion that the white race in the South is living under a hygienic handicap which is not paralleled in any other part of the country, and, were it not for the greater intelligence and better financial condition of the whites, whereby they are able to protect themselves mcn-e or less against these diseases by sanitary measures, it would be only a rpiestion of a few generations before this handicap would exterminate the whites from those portions of the South which are especially favorable to these infections. The whites of higher education and in better financial condition are able to protect themselves against this handicap, the burden of which has, therefore, fallen more especially upon that class (namely, the rural white tenant class) which has been kept in financial impoverishment through generations of competition with negro labor; and the result is exactly what theory demands it should be, namely, the present impoverished physical condition of so many thousands of the tenant white people, especially those living in the sandy and mountainous districts, where the sanitary arrangements are so inferior. The physical condition of these people can be appreciated only by persons who have been among them. Those of us who have lived among them need not be surprised to find their blood from 10 to 70 per cent below normal, nor need we be surprised, upon entering a poor farm hovel, to foresee death, in many instances, in 40 per cent of the children (namely, 2 of the 5, or 4 of the 10 children of the family) before they reach twenty-one years of age. I visited one farm on which I found father, mother, five children, and fifteen children's graves. I asked the physician what had killed these fifteen children, and he replied: "I do not know what the disease is, but if you can tell me what is killing iliat rjirl there, you will know what killed the other fifteen children." ''That girl there'' was a severe case of hookworm disease, in the dirt-eating stage. Think of it, gentlemen; 75 per cent of the rising generation of this family had already paid the extreme penalty of soil pollution, and one further member of the family already had one foot in the gravel Gentlemen, let any one call me a theorist if he will, but, in all fairness to the tenant white class of the rural sand and piney-woods districts of the South, let him first see the sights I have seen before he makes fun of those people and before he jokes about their sick and dying women and children. Before any man who claims to be humane considers these people "lazy" ''good for nothing" and "not worth trying to help" let him reflect upon the following statistics, based on about 10,000 examinations I have recently made among this class of people: |
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