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13() NORTH CAROLINA BOAliD OF HEALTH Report of the Bureau of Engineering and Education The major part of the work of this bureau is educational, that is, in getting before the public in a simple, practical, non-technical manner the elementary facts about public health, sanitation and hygiene which will directly or indirectly reduce the death rate and enable our people to live longer and better. This bureau is pursuing a number of means to this end. Chief among these means is the publication of a monthly health bulletin which now goes to every doctor, lawyer, preacher, school teacher, state, county and town official in the State so far as we are able to keep abreast with the ever-changing addresses. The mailing list for the bulletin now contains about 48,000 names, and is growing steadily. Besides the monthly health bulletin, special bulletins and leaflets on typhoid, tuberculosis, babies, hookworms, flies, sanitary privies, malaria, whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other public health subjects are published. Accurate records of the number of each of these bulletins and leaflets published and distributed have not been kept, but to give some idea of the extent of this work, it may be said that during the last two years the separate pieces of literature distributed on tuberculosis alone approximates a half million, while the literature on flies makes nearly another half million. Practically none of this literature is sent out except upon request. The daily and weekly papers of the State also carry a large amount of public health matter sent out by this bureau. It might be noted in this connection that so far as can be learned, this Board was one of the first, if not the first, in the Union to undertake issuing regular popular health articles to the papers of the State. Now such educational methods are growing popular all over the country and it is interesting to note that during the last two or three years quite a number of other state boards of health have followed North Carolina's example. In fact, we are complimented to note that some of them occasionally use the material sent out by this office in their own state. It has been estimated that through the aid of the papers of the State, public health educational matter, put up in terse, popular style, reaches over a quarter of a million North Carolina homes. The newspapers are a mighty agency for public health work and for whatever is accomplished in the way of public health in this State the press must receive a great amount of the credit for placing the matter squarely before the people. This bureau has found that another excellent means of teaching the principles of public health and sanitation is by means of exhibits. At the State Fair for the last two years this Board has given health exhibits. By means of actual working models, charts and pictures a great mass of people have been reached in this way, started to thinking and given some public health literature, who could scarcely have been reached in any other manner. In connection with the health exhibit, this bureau endeavored to encourage babies' health conferences. Hundreds of babies from all over the State were entered, judged, and their physical defects, so far as possible, were pointed out to the mothers. The direct benefit to these few hundred babies is comparatively small compared with the tremendous amount of interest awakened
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-02: Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
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. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913-1914 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-015 |
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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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 | 15 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 144 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
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. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913-1914 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-015-0148 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
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 | 15 |
Page Number | 144 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 13() NORTH CAROLINA BOAliD OF HEALTH Report of the Bureau of Engineering and Education The major part of the work of this bureau is educational, that is, in getting before the public in a simple, practical, non-technical manner the elementary facts about public health, sanitation and hygiene which will directly or indirectly reduce the death rate and enable our people to live longer and better. This bureau is pursuing a number of means to this end. Chief among these means is the publication of a monthly health bulletin which now goes to every doctor, lawyer, preacher, school teacher, state, county and town official in the State so far as we are able to keep abreast with the ever-changing addresses. The mailing list for the bulletin now contains about 48,000 names, and is growing steadily. Besides the monthly health bulletin, special bulletins and leaflets on typhoid, tuberculosis, babies, hookworms, flies, sanitary privies, malaria, whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other public health subjects are published. Accurate records of the number of each of these bulletins and leaflets published and distributed have not been kept, but to give some idea of the extent of this work, it may be said that during the last two years the separate pieces of literature distributed on tuberculosis alone approximates a half million, while the literature on flies makes nearly another half million. Practically none of this literature is sent out except upon request. The daily and weekly papers of the State also carry a large amount of public health matter sent out by this bureau. It might be noted in this connection that so far as can be learned, this Board was one of the first, if not the first, in the Union to undertake issuing regular popular health articles to the papers of the State. Now such educational methods are growing popular all over the country and it is interesting to note that during the last two or three years quite a number of other state boards of health have followed North Carolina's example. In fact, we are complimented to note that some of them occasionally use the material sent out by this office in their own state. It has been estimated that through the aid of the papers of the State, public health educational matter, put up in terse, popular style, reaches over a quarter of a million North Carolina homes. The newspapers are a mighty agency for public health work and for whatever is accomplished in the way of public health in this State the press must receive a great amount of the credit for placing the matter squarely before the people. This bureau has found that another excellent means of teaching the principles of public health and sanitation is by means of exhibits. At the State Fair for the last two years this Board has given health exhibits. By means of actual working models, charts and pictures a great mass of people have been reached in this way, started to thinking and given some public health literature, who could scarcely have been reached in any other manner. In connection with the health exhibit, this bureau endeavored to encourage babies' health conferences. Hundreds of babies from all over the State were entered, judged, and their physical defects, so far as possible, were pointed out to the mothers. The direct benefit to these few hundred babies is comparatively small compared with the tremendous amount of interest awakened |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-015.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-015 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-02 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2375275 |
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