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52 Thirty-Seventh Biennial Report 3. Combined budget—federal, state, local—increased from $2,684,277 for fiscal 1948 to $10,960,027 for fiscal 1958. During this time the State staff has increased 246 to 380 and local employees from 878 to 1186. Funds to private physicians with assisting personnel and hospitals have increased from $371,177.00 to $1,057,447.00 or 184.9%. Federal funds have increased $2,421,209.00 to $3,007,784.00 or 24.2%. State funds have increased $862,264.00 to $2,993,810.00 or 247.2%, and local funds have increased $2,125,385.00 to $5,334,965.00 or 151.0%. It is also notev^orthy that the Cooper Memorial Health Building was completed and occupied in 1956 and will be fully air conditioned next month. Our most severe polio epidemic of 1948, the series of hurricanes in 1954 and 1955 and the Asian influenza outbreak of 1957 have presented emergency challenges that have put North Carolina's State Board of Health and local health departments to acid tests. We serve many agencies to avoid costly duplication. In our State Board of Health Administration there are eight major divisions comprising about thirty sections. These divisions are: Central Administration, Epidemiology, Laboratory, Local Health Administration, Oral Hygiene, Personal Health, Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control. I. CENTRAL ADiMIMSTKATIOX Central Administration has been directly under the State Health Director until a week ago v^hen a Director of Administrative Services was employed. One of the earliest changes made almost ten years ago v^as to streamline and centralize budget operations, mailing, shipping and receiving and also central files, multilithing and the film library and personnel. The Publicity Officer added in 1953 the Asheville Station WWNC to his regular Mreekly broadcasts over WPTF. He has been increasingly helpful in Medical Society as well as Health publicity particularly for meetings and feature articles. The Medical-Public Health Library was established in 1954 by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Visits to the Library, loans of material and assistance in organization and preparation of presentations have about doubled over the second year of operation. IL EPIDEMIOLOGY In addition to vital statistics, communicable disease control, occupational health, venereal disease control and tuberculosis control, the following sections have been added:—1951 Veterinary Public Health; 1954 Accident Prevention (Home and Farm) ; and 1957 Chronic Disease-Radiation. During the 10-year period only four cases of smallpox have occurred in the State, three cases in 1948 and one case (transient; exposure unknown) in 1953. Typhoid fever has shown a consistent annual decline from 56 cases reported in 1948 to 23 in 1957. Malaria has declined from 147 cases of local origin in 1948 to 48 in 1953 and none in 1957. Diphtheria has declined from 485 cases reported in 1948 to 49 cases in 1957. Tuberculosis deaths have declined each year from a total of 1128 in 1948 to 224 in 1957, a decrease of 80 per cent. During the ten-year period 2,656,234 persons have been chest x-rayed for the detection of tuberculosis under 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) and 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 | 1956-1958 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-037 |
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 | 37 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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) and 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 | 1956-1958 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-037-0056 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
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 | 37 |
Page Number | 52 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 52 Thirty-Seventh Biennial Report 3. Combined budget—federal, state, local—increased from $2,684,277 for fiscal 1948 to $10,960,027 for fiscal 1958. During this time the State staff has increased 246 to 380 and local employees from 878 to 1186. Funds to private physicians with assisting personnel and hospitals have increased from $371,177.00 to $1,057,447.00 or 184.9%. Federal funds have increased $2,421,209.00 to $3,007,784.00 or 24.2%. State funds have increased $862,264.00 to $2,993,810.00 or 247.2%, and local funds have increased $2,125,385.00 to $5,334,965.00 or 151.0%. It is also notev^orthy that the Cooper Memorial Health Building was completed and occupied in 1956 and will be fully air conditioned next month. Our most severe polio epidemic of 1948, the series of hurricanes in 1954 and 1955 and the Asian influenza outbreak of 1957 have presented emergency challenges that have put North Carolina's State Board of Health and local health departments to acid tests. We serve many agencies to avoid costly duplication. In our State Board of Health Administration there are eight major divisions comprising about thirty sections. These divisions are: Central Administration, Epidemiology, Laboratory, Local Health Administration, Oral Hygiene, Personal Health, Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control. I. CENTRAL ADiMIMSTKATIOX Central Administration has been directly under the State Health Director until a week ago v^hen a Director of Administrative Services was employed. One of the earliest changes made almost ten years ago v^as to streamline and centralize budget operations, mailing, shipping and receiving and also central files, multilithing and the film library and personnel. The Publicity Officer added in 1953 the Asheville Station WWNC to his regular Mreekly broadcasts over WPTF. He has been increasingly helpful in Medical Society as well as Health publicity particularly for meetings and feature articles. The Medical-Public Health Library was established in 1954 by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Visits to the Library, loans of material and assistance in organization and preparation of presentations have about doubled over the second year of operation. IL EPIDEMIOLOGY In addition to vital statistics, communicable disease control, occupational health, venereal disease control and tuberculosis control, the following sections have been added:—1951 Veterinary Public Health; 1954 Accident Prevention (Home and Farm) ; and 1957 Chronic Disease-Radiation. During the 10-year period only four cases of smallpox have occurred in the State, three cases in 1948 and one case (transient; exposure unknown) in 1953. Typhoid fever has shown a consistent annual decline from 56 cases reported in 1948 to 23 in 1957. Malaria has declined from 147 cases of local origin in 1948 to 48 in 1953 and none in 1957. Diphtheria has declined from 485 cases reported in 1948 to 49 cases in 1957. Tuberculosis deaths have declined each year from a total of 1128 in 1948 to 224 in 1957, a decrease of 80 per cent. During the ten-year period 2,656,234 persons have been chest x-rayed for the detection of tuberculosis under the |
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Article Title | A Decade of Public Health Adjustment in North Carolina |
Article Author | Norton, J. W. R. |
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