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148 xortii carolina board of health. lack those (lualities to any appreciable extent they are worthless. The practical question is, how can they be obtained? The answer is, from the cities and towns. While such statistics would not l)e as valuable as those collected from the whole State, it is the best that can be done, and they would furnish excellent samples of the health conditions in the different sections of the State and an admirable basis for comparison with similar communities in other States and countries. But even in cities and towns it is no easy matter to secure full and reliable mortuary statistics. It cannot be done, in the opinion of the writer, except under tlie strict and vigilant enforcement of a stringent ordinance imposing a decided penalty for the burial or ren:ioval from the corporate limits of a dead body except upon a l)urial permit issued by a designated official, based upon a death certificate, giving, chief among other things, the cause of death, signed by the attending physician, or, in cases where there was no attending j)hysician, by the nearest friend, and sworn to by him before a magistrate. The authorities should impress this ordinance particularly upon the undertakers in such a manner as to effectually prevent their undertaking the i)reparations for burial until the burial permit is produced. Something less than a year ago we sent to every town in the State having live hundred or more inliabitants, and to all county-seats of less population, a model ordinance, with sample blanks, in which the regulations suggested above were set forth, in the hope that it might be generally adopted and mortuary statistics collected in every place on the same plan. While only two towns have formally adopted the ordinance as a whole, a number have it essentially, and the statistics sent in we believe to be generally reliable. But we cannot help feeling when we note a death-rate very much smaller in one town than in another of about the same sanitary conditions that the former either has an imperfect ordinance or does not enforce a good one. We are not willing to adn:iit, of course, that any municipality would deliberately fudge," as we used to say in marbles, on its sisters We have brought forward this subject because of its importance and in the hope that those of our readers living in cities and towns will interest themselves in the matter sufficiently to inquire as to the ordinance on the subject and as to the enforcement of the same. The display of such an interest on the part of the medical men of any city or town would surely have its eff'ect upon the authorities and make for the perfecting of the returns. MALARIA AND DRINKING WATER. If we have a sanitary '*fad" it is the influence of the drinking water in the production of malarial diseases. It has always possessed a peculiar interest for us, originated possibly by the plasmodia imbil^ed in
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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 | 1893-1894 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005 |
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. |
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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 | 1893-1894 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005-0154 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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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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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 | 148 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 148 xortii carolina board of health. lack those (lualities to any appreciable extent they are worthless. The practical question is, how can they be obtained? The answer is, from the cities and towns. While such statistics would not l)e as valuable as those collected from the whole State, it is the best that can be done, and they would furnish excellent samples of the health conditions in the different sections of the State and an admirable basis for comparison with similar communities in other States and countries. But even in cities and towns it is no easy matter to secure full and reliable mortuary statistics. It cannot be done, in the opinion of the writer, except under tlie strict and vigilant enforcement of a stringent ordinance imposing a decided penalty for the burial or ren:ioval from the corporate limits of a dead body except upon a l)urial permit issued by a designated official, based upon a death certificate, giving, chief among other things, the cause of death, signed by the attending physician, or, in cases where there was no attending j)hysician, by the nearest friend, and sworn to by him before a magistrate. The authorities should impress this ordinance particularly upon the undertakers in such a manner as to effectually prevent their undertaking the i)reparations for burial until the burial permit is produced. Something less than a year ago we sent to every town in the State having live hundred or more inliabitants, and to all county-seats of less population, a model ordinance, with sample blanks, in which the regulations suggested above were set forth, in the hope that it might be generally adopted and mortuary statistics collected in every place on the same plan. While only two towns have formally adopted the ordinance as a whole, a number have it essentially, and the statistics sent in we believe to be generally reliable. But we cannot help feeling when we note a death-rate very much smaller in one town than in another of about the same sanitary conditions that the former either has an imperfect ordinance or does not enforce a good one. We are not willing to adn:iit, of course, that any municipality would deliberately fudge" as we used to say in marbles, on its sisters We have brought forward this subject because of its importance and in the hope that those of our readers living in cities and towns will interest themselves in the matter sufficiently to inquire as to the ordinance on the subject and as to the enforcement of the same. The display of such an interest on the part of the medical men of any city or town would surely have its eff'ect upon the authorities and make for the perfecting of the returns. MALARIA AND DRINKING WATER. If we have a sanitary '*fad" it is the influence of the drinking water in the production of malarial diseases. It has always possessed a peculiar interest for us, originated possibly by the plasmodia imbil^ed in |
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