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SIXTH BIENNIAL KKPORT. 1 i i MALARIA AND ITS PREVENTION IN EASTERN CAROLINA BY JULIAN M. BAKER, M. D., OF TARBORO. (Read at the Washiui^ton Health Conference.) The prevention of malaria is of importance to the economist as well as to the sanitarian. It is of special importance to us in Eastern Carolina, because, in some form, it exists in nearly every locality, extending far into the Piedmont section ; because the mortality is greatly exaggerated in the minds of non residents, and because there is a means of prevention which, if known and carried out, will surely eradicate it. It is constantly decreasing in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and most of the large cities as the knowledge of its nature and cause has l:)ecome better understood, until at present it prevails to the greatest extent in low, marshy, country districts, principally in Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. In Europe it has coiistantly decreased until at present its habitation is confined principally to Southern Russia and parts of Italy. The influence of soil and climate in the production of Malaria is universally I'ecognized, but as yet it is impossil^le to determine whether certain localities are malarial V)y any means other than by observing the effect which residence in those localities produces upon the Caucasian race. Low, marshy lauds with an abundance of vegetable matter, heat and moisture, and summer and autumn, are favorable conditions for sustaining and developing the virus. Malaria may l)e defined to l)e an '' infectious disease, always accompanied by the h^ematozoa of Lavaran, aiul characterized by fever of an intermittent or remittent t ype, or by a chronic cachexia Avith anaemia and enlarged spleen/' What the virus consists of occupied the attention for a long time, but after the observation of Klebs and Crudeli in 1879, additional interest was manifested in investigating it. The experiments of Lavaran in 1880, and their subsequent conlirmation by Marchiafava and others in Italy, by Councilman, Osier and Joseph Jones in America, and more recently by French, German and English scientists, are conclusive that it is a parasite and belongs to the h^ematozoa. No observer, says Osier, who has undertaken the proper study of the blood in malaria has failed to recognize the parasite. Its nature and affinities are not definitely determined, but investigators in England, France, America, Italy and India are unanimous in the opinion that these bodies are always present in malaria, and that 12
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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 | 1895-1896 |
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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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Volume Number | 6 |
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Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | SIXTH BIENNIAL KKPORT. 1 i i MALARIA AND ITS PREVENTION IN EASTERN CAROLINA BY JULIAN M. BAKER, M. D., OF TARBORO. (Read at the Washiui^ton Health Conference.) The prevention of malaria is of importance to the economist as well as to the sanitarian. It is of special importance to us in Eastern Carolina, because, in some form, it exists in nearly every locality, extending far into the Piedmont section ; because the mortality is greatly exaggerated in the minds of non residents, and because there is a means of prevention which, if known and carried out, will surely eradicate it. It is constantly decreasing in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and most of the large cities as the knowledge of its nature and cause has l:)ecome better understood, until at present it prevails to the greatest extent in low, marshy, country districts, principally in Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. In Europe it has coiistantly decreased until at present its habitation is confined principally to Southern Russia and parts of Italy. The influence of soil and climate in the production of Malaria is universally I'ecognized, but as yet it is impossil^le to determine whether certain localities are malarial V)y any means other than by observing the effect which residence in those localities produces upon the Caucasian race. Low, marshy lauds with an abundance of vegetable matter, heat and moisture, and summer and autumn, are favorable conditions for sustaining and developing the virus. Malaria may l)e defined to l)e an '' infectious disease, always accompanied by the h^ematozoa of Lavaran, aiul characterized by fever of an intermittent or remittent t ype, or by a chronic cachexia Avith anaemia and enlarged spleen/' What the virus consists of occupied the attention for a long time, but after the observation of Klebs and Crudeli in 1879, additional interest was manifested in investigating it. The experiments of Lavaran in 1880, and their subsequent conlirmation by Marchiafava and others in Italy, by Councilman, Osier and Joseph Jones in America, and more recently by French, German and English scientists, are conclusive that it is a parasite and belongs to the h^ematozoa. No observer, says Osier, who has undertaken the proper study of the blood in malaria has failed to recognize the parasite. Its nature and affinities are not definitely determined, but investigators in England, France, America, Italy and India are unanimous in the opinion that these bodies are always present in malaria, and that 12 |
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