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Twenty-second Biennial Report . 29 quarantine of approximately 50,000 such cases each year, supplying to each home where any of the contagious or infectious diseases occur, directions for the care of the sick and other precautions necessary to prevent the spread of the disease; makes epidemiological investigations to ascertain the source of infection in such diseases as typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., when such diseases appear in local epidemics; conducts with the assistance of local physicians mass vaccination campaigns for the prevention of typhoid and diphtheria, covering about 20 counties each year and securing about 40,000 typhoid vaccinations and 10,000 diphtheria vaccinations; supervises a malaria control program in a number of eastern counties, and supervises a number of impounded water projects. (4) The 39 county health departments through the division of County Health Work are given supervision and advice, together with financial assistance. Assistance is supplied in planning and developing general and special units of local work, demonstrations, educational exhibits, clinics, laboratories, and the like, and assists in the organization of new county departments. (5) In the division of Medical Inspection of Schools, a field staff of eight nurses, eight dentists and one supervising dentist is maintained. An average of 90,000 school children are being examined by the nurses in those counties not having local health departments. The examinations are for the purpose of discovering the more common defects of childhood such as those of vision, hearing, throat, nose, teeth, skin or orthopoedic deformities. Personal notes are sent to parents advising of such defects as may be found and urging that the child be given the indicated medical care in order that correction may be made. As a follow-up of this work, the Board conducts during the summer months clinics for operative treatment of children of school age suffering with diseased tonsils and adenoids. A special hospital unit sufficient to care for twenty-five patients is transported by truck. A hospital unit is maintained consisting of a physician to carefully examine the children and administer anaesthesia, eleven experienced nurses, and an orderly. The operating surgeon is a specialist secured on the recommendation of the local county board of health. About 2,000 children are now being treated each year in these summer clinics. An average of 36,000 school children are receiving dental treatment. This includes not only the cleaning of teeth, silver nitrate treatments or temporary fillings for decayed first teeth, but an average of 30,000 permanent fillings each year, thereby saving that many permanent teeth, the greater portion of which would otherwise be lost. The school dentists doing this work are provided with portable outfits and conduct the dental clinics in the school buildings. A conservative estimate of the cost value of the work done in the tonsil and dental clinics each year is $500,000.00, an amount greater than the total appropriation made for all of the work of the Board. (6) The division of Sanitary Engineering and Inspection is charged with manifold duties all of which intimately affect the public health. Primarily this division supervises the construction and maintenance of all public water supply and sewerage systems. There are 238 public water supplies under supervision, representing an invested capital of $40,000,000 and an annual cost of operation of $3,750,000, serving 30 per cent of the
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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 | 1926-1928 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-022 |
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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Volume Number | 22 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 29 |
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 | 1926-1928 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-022-0033 |
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 | 22 |
Page Number | 29 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Twenty-second Biennial Report . 29 quarantine of approximately 50,000 such cases each year, supplying to each home where any of the contagious or infectious diseases occur, directions for the care of the sick and other precautions necessary to prevent the spread of the disease; makes epidemiological investigations to ascertain the source of infection in such diseases as typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., when such diseases appear in local epidemics; conducts with the assistance of local physicians mass vaccination campaigns for the prevention of typhoid and diphtheria, covering about 20 counties each year and securing about 40,000 typhoid vaccinations and 10,000 diphtheria vaccinations; supervises a malaria control program in a number of eastern counties, and supervises a number of impounded water projects. (4) The 39 county health departments through the division of County Health Work are given supervision and advice, together with financial assistance. Assistance is supplied in planning and developing general and special units of local work, demonstrations, educational exhibits, clinics, laboratories, and the like, and assists in the organization of new county departments. (5) In the division of Medical Inspection of Schools, a field staff of eight nurses, eight dentists and one supervising dentist is maintained. An average of 90,000 school children are being examined by the nurses in those counties not having local health departments. The examinations are for the purpose of discovering the more common defects of childhood such as those of vision, hearing, throat, nose, teeth, skin or orthopoedic deformities. Personal notes are sent to parents advising of such defects as may be found and urging that the child be given the indicated medical care in order that correction may be made. As a follow-up of this work, the Board conducts during the summer months clinics for operative treatment of children of school age suffering with diseased tonsils and adenoids. A special hospital unit sufficient to care for twenty-five patients is transported by truck. A hospital unit is maintained consisting of a physician to carefully examine the children and administer anaesthesia, eleven experienced nurses, and an orderly. The operating surgeon is a specialist secured on the recommendation of the local county board of health. About 2,000 children are now being treated each year in these summer clinics. An average of 36,000 school children are receiving dental treatment. This includes not only the cleaning of teeth, silver nitrate treatments or temporary fillings for decayed first teeth, but an average of 30,000 permanent fillings each year, thereby saving that many permanent teeth, the greater portion of which would otherwise be lost. The school dentists doing this work are provided with portable outfits and conduct the dental clinics in the school buildings. A conservative estimate of the cost value of the work done in the tonsil and dental clinics each year is $500,000.00, an amount greater than the total appropriation made for all of the work of the Board. (6) The division of Sanitary Engineering and Inspection is charged with manifold duties all of which intimately affect the public health. Primarily this division supervises the construction and maintenance of all public water supply and sewerage systems. There are 238 public water supplies under supervision, representing an invested capital of $40,000,000 and an annual cost of operation of $3,750,000, serving 30 per cent of the |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-022.pdf |
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