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21G Arpp:NDix. will not have it ready befoi'e October, as I want to include in my observations the month of September, as August and September are the unhealthiest months on Roanoke river; but I can give you a practical illustration of the result of using water from driven pumps for August There has been an average of sixty-live hands (greatest number eighty) working on the dyke on the Roanoke river on Northampton State Farm, and I have had them to use exchisively water taken to them from the quarters two miles distant (driven pumi>), and during the entire month there was not a ninyle case of intermittent fever among the force. This I consider the most unhealthy situation on the entire farm, and, to use an old Louisiana exi)ression, the * malaria is such that you can stir it witli a stick or cut it with a knife.' During my twenty-three years' experience in the active practice of medicine, including a residence of six years on Red river, in northern Louisiana, I have been a great stickler for good drinking water, and I think the day is not far distant when the malarial dilemma will be solved by working up a public vsenti-ment in favor of the use of good drinking water. I am fully aware that one swallow does not make a summer, l)ut I am greatly encouraged in the line of work I am pursuing during my four months' residence as physician to State farms. If you wish I will contril)ute the article I have reference to to the Bulletin.. " Yours very truly, (GEORGE H. WEST." I am very much in hopes that tlie authorities of tlie Penitentiary may carry out in detail, on one of its farms at least, the experiment suggested in my letter to Superintendent Leazar. It would be extremely valuable and carry great weight in the scientitic world. While this investigation is not yet concluded, 1 believe the reader will agree with me that the case is practically made out, and that we may claim with certainty that the malarial i)oison finds its way into the human system through the medium of drinking water, and that in all probability it constitutes its principal avenue of access. Q. E. D. Excluding malarial diseases, there is, in my deliberate opinion, no healthier country on earth than Eastern North Carolina. If the universal employment of pure drinking water in that section could be brought about, its health record would indeed be revolutionized, and that really splendid country would blossom as the rose. POvSTSCRIPT. Since the above was published that admirable journal, the Charleston Neivs a7id Courier has interested itself actively in the investigation of this question. Besides publishing most of the letters given above the editor
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
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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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Full Text | 21G Arpp:NDix. will not have it ready befoi'e October, as I want to include in my observations the month of September, as August and September are the unhealthiest months on Roanoke river; but I can give you a practical illustration of the result of using water from driven pumps for August There has been an average of sixty-live hands (greatest number eighty) working on the dyke on the Roanoke river on Northampton State Farm, and I have had them to use exchisively water taken to them from the quarters two miles distant (driven pumi>), and during the entire month there was not a ninyle case of intermittent fever among the force. This I consider the most unhealthy situation on the entire farm, and, to use an old Louisiana exi)ression, the * malaria is such that you can stir it witli a stick or cut it with a knife.' During my twenty-three years' experience in the active practice of medicine, including a residence of six years on Red river, in northern Louisiana, I have been a great stickler for good drinking water, and I think the day is not far distant when the malarial dilemma will be solved by working up a public vsenti-ment in favor of the use of good drinking water. I am fully aware that one swallow does not make a summer, l)ut I am greatly encouraged in the line of work I am pursuing during my four months' residence as physician to State farms. If you wish I will contril)ute the article I have reference to to the Bulletin.. " Yours very truly, (GEORGE H. WEST." I am very much in hopes that tlie authorities of tlie Penitentiary may carry out in detail, on one of its farms at least, the experiment suggested in my letter to Superintendent Leazar. It would be extremely valuable and carry great weight in the scientitic world. While this investigation is not yet concluded, 1 believe the reader will agree with me that the case is practically made out, and that we may claim with certainty that the malarial i)oison finds its way into the human system through the medium of drinking water, and that in all probability it constitutes its principal avenue of access. Q. E. D. Excluding malarial diseases, there is, in my deliberate opinion, no healthier country on earth than Eastern North Carolina. If the universal employment of pure drinking water in that section could be brought about, its health record would indeed be revolutionized, and that really splendid country would blossom as the rose. POvSTSCRIPT. Since the above was published that admirable journal, the Charleston Neivs a7id Courier has interested itself actively in the investigation of this question. Besides publishing most of the letters given above the editor |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
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