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appexdix. 181) was analyzed by Dr. Venable, of Chapel Hill, and pronounced O, K. It may be that we have malai'ia in spite of good water from all our sources, and this supports our theory to some extent. The lowlands bordering on Little and Neuse rivers are prolific in malarial fevers during most of our foil n:ionths; and the past August, September, October and November we had in this hospital among patients and their employees and their ftimilies nearly two hundred cases, many of them relapses; but from this cause we had no deaths." # FROM OTHERS THAX ntYSICIAXS—UNFAVORABLE. 11. Winsteadr'dle, BeanfoH count]!: ''We have used cistern water and sometimes water from driven wells, never from the other wells. I cannot say that we have escai)ed the chills, but I do think that we have fared much better than others who use poorer water." ]]\ IL Johmton^ Esq., Tarboro, Ethjecombe county: ''Up to the time I attained the age of forty-three years I used water from ordinary wells, and since that time have used cistern water. I greatly prefer cistern water to the water we obtain from wells, and am sure it is more wholesome, but I suffered no more from malaria when I used well M-ater. I was married at thirty-seven years of age, and my family used well water for six years and have since then used cistern water. I am now sixty-three years old. I cannot say that my doctor's bills for malarial diseases were greater when we used well water than when we used cistern water. I think they were about the same." Mr. Frank E. Hitch, IRunilton, Martin countu: "I have lived in Bertie and ^lartin counties for more than twelve years, in close proximity to Roanoke river. I have a wife and five children. In that time there has been but one chill in my family. I had that at Nag's Head last summer. We have drunk well Avater all the time. No other family in this section has such a record as mine." Mr. J. B. Brijan, Aurora, Beaufort count}/: "Would say that cisterns are cheap and appreciated by our people. Am sorry to say that I am not certain that they add to the health of our people, but think they must." In assigning to the evidence just cited its proper weight I am not unmindful that the conditions demanded by rigid scientific acuracy were not always present, but most of the letters are so clear, definite and positive as to be, to my mind, taken in connection with the evidence cited from other writers, absolutely conclusive of the fact that the malarial poison finds its way into the system largely—not to express it
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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. |
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Date | 1893-1894 |
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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. |
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Volume Number | 5 |
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Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | appexdix. 181) was analyzed by Dr. Venable, of Chapel Hill, and pronounced O, K. It may be that we have malai'ia in spite of good water from all our sources, and this supports our theory to some extent. The lowlands bordering on Little and Neuse rivers are prolific in malarial fevers during most of our foil n:ionths; and the past August, September, October and November we had in this hospital among patients and their employees and their ftimilies nearly two hundred cases, many of them relapses; but from this cause we had no deaths." # FROM OTHERS THAX ntYSICIAXS—UNFAVORABLE. 11. Winsteadr'dle, BeanfoH count]!: ''We have used cistern water and sometimes water from driven wells, never from the other wells. I cannot say that we have escai)ed the chills, but I do think that we have fared much better than others who use poorer water." ]]\ IL Johmton^ Esq., Tarboro, Ethjecombe county: ''Up to the time I attained the age of forty-three years I used water from ordinary wells, and since that time have used cistern water. I greatly prefer cistern water to the water we obtain from wells, and am sure it is more wholesome, but I suffered no more from malaria when I used well M-ater. I was married at thirty-seven years of age, and my family used well water for six years and have since then used cistern water. I am now sixty-three years old. I cannot say that my doctor's bills for malarial diseases were greater when we used well water than when we used cistern water. I think they were about the same." Mr. Frank E. Hitch, IRunilton, Martin countu: "I have lived in Bertie and ^lartin counties for more than twelve years, in close proximity to Roanoke river. I have a wife and five children. In that time there has been but one chill in my family. I had that at Nag's Head last summer. We have drunk well Avater all the time. No other family in this section has such a record as mine." Mr. J. B. Brijan, Aurora, Beaufort count}/: "Would say that cisterns are cheap and appreciated by our people. Am sorry to say that I am not certain that they add to the health of our people, but think they must." In assigning to the evidence just cited its proper weight I am not unmindful that the conditions demanded by rigid scientific acuracy were not always present, but most of the letters are so clear, definite and positive as to be, to my mind, taken in connection with the evidence cited from other writers, absolutely conclusive of the fact that the malarial poison finds its way into the system largely—not to express it |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
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