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28 ^OllTll CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH. introduction of a 'Tublic Health Week'' into every schoolroom in the South. During this week let us utilize the class in physiology, in order to teach to the children the three great and fundamental principles of public health so important for the South. These principles are: First Do not spit on the floor, for this habit spreads tuberculosis and diphtheria. Second. Do not pollute the soih for this habit spreads typhoid fever and ground itch, with its resulting hookworm disease. Third. Protect against mosquitoes, for mosquitoes spread malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and elephant foot. Besides working through the schools, let us use every other means by which we can carry on a merciless campaign against soil pollution. In the last analysis, soil pollution is an evil in itself; it is in the nature of ''malum in sc"; it is an "aggravated offense against the public welfare" ; hence it should be prohil)ited and made a crime, and any person guilty of polluting a highway or back alley should be sent to the chain gang. Let us extend this campaign to the farms especially, and, if possible, persuade, but, if necessary, compel, the farmer to build a sanitary privy and to keep it clean. Let us appeal to the clergy, to the lawyers, to the business men, and especially to the school teachers and the mothers, to join in this campaign. If I can gain the mothers of the South for this movement, and be given a chance to do so, I will agree to practically eradicate hookworm disease from the South in one generation's time, and by this eradication I will agree to elevate the condition of the rural tenant whites. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me emphasize a very important point in the plan I propose, namely, that it is absolutely necessary to avoid any distinction between the whites and the negroes in this campaign of sanitary education, fox*— (a) The white man who fails to recognize the important necessity of improving the sanitary conditions under which the negro is living fails to go to the root of the evil, and he unconsciously invites disease and death, especially to the women and children of his own race; while— (h) The negro who fails to recognize the imi>ortant necessity of improving the sanitary conditions under which the negro is living overlooks the fact that he is placing a very serious handicap in the way of a higher mental development of his race; for the point must not be forgotten that hookworm disease, in addition to its physical effects, to which the negro is relatively immune, has also a serious effect upon the mentalitj^ and it has not been shown that the negro is immune to this latter effect.
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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 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-012 |
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 | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-012-0034 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news |
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 | 12 |
Page Number | 28 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 28 ^OllTll CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH. introduction of a 'Tublic Health Week'' into every schoolroom in the South. During this week let us utilize the class in physiology, in order to teach to the children the three great and fundamental principles of public health so important for the South. These principles are: First Do not spit on the floor, for this habit spreads tuberculosis and diphtheria. Second. Do not pollute the soih for this habit spreads typhoid fever and ground itch, with its resulting hookworm disease. Third. Protect against mosquitoes, for mosquitoes spread malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and elephant foot. Besides working through the schools, let us use every other means by which we can carry on a merciless campaign against soil pollution. In the last analysis, soil pollution is an evil in itself; it is in the nature of ''malum in sc"; it is an "aggravated offense against the public welfare" ; hence it should be prohil)ited and made a crime, and any person guilty of polluting a highway or back alley should be sent to the chain gang. Let us extend this campaign to the farms especially, and, if possible, persuade, but, if necessary, compel, the farmer to build a sanitary privy and to keep it clean. Let us appeal to the clergy, to the lawyers, to the business men, and especially to the school teachers and the mothers, to join in this campaign. If I can gain the mothers of the South for this movement, and be given a chance to do so, I will agree to practically eradicate hookworm disease from the South in one generation's time, and by this eradication I will agree to elevate the condition of the rural tenant whites. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me emphasize a very important point in the plan I propose, namely, that it is absolutely necessary to avoid any distinction between the whites and the negroes in this campaign of sanitary education, fox*— (a) The white man who fails to recognize the important necessity of improving the sanitary conditions under which the negro is living fails to go to the root of the evil, and he unconsciously invites disease and death, especially to the women and children of his own race; while— (h) The negro who fails to recognize the imi>ortant necessity of improving the sanitary conditions under which the negro is living overlooks the fact that he is placing a very serious handicap in the way of a higher mental development of his race; for the point must not be forgotten that hookworm disease, in addition to its physical effects, to which the negro is relatively immune, has also a serious effect upon the mentalitj^ and it has not been shown that the negro is immune to this latter effect. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-01/nchh-01-012.pdf |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-01-012 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-01 |
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