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Sevexteexth Biennial Keport 59 upon the power of the flesh to act as a transforming machine on the sun's rays, absorbing the rays directly or indirectly and converting them into some form of energy available for sei'vice. The human body is more than a transforming station for the sun's rays; it is a shrine; it has the value of a holy temple which lifts it to other and higher considerations than that of the money changers. The Second Recommendation THAT A LAW BE ENACTED PROVIDING FOR THE EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF DEFECTIVE SCHOOL CHILDREN. The considerations on which these recommendations rest are as follows: "North Carolina's greatest resource is its child life/' Practically everybody now admits that the first requisite for the safety and prosperity of a State rests upon the physical fitness of its citizens. Thirty-eight per cent of the young men between twenty-one and thirty-one years of age called out in the draft of 1917 were physically unfit to go to war, on account of diseases and conditions w^hich could have been prevented to a large extent if treated in their earlier school years. In one county alone, of 700 young men examined, 678, all but 22, had already lost one or more of the first four permanent teeth which a child "cuts" at six years' of age. Every one of those teeth could have been saved by proper treatment and care if done under fourteen years of age. A defective child neglected grows into a liability to the community; if given proper care and assistance at the right time, the same child will become an asset ito his community. There are 803,257 children of school age in North Carolina. Within the past four years the State Board of Health has supervised the examination of about 200,000 children. This work was done by teachers, trained nurses and physicians. Children of all classes, ages and conditions of both sexes and colors have been included. This work has been done in all parts of the State, from counties as far west as Madison, Swain, and Macon to the eastern counties of Currituck and Camden. Upon a most conservative opinion as to diagnosis, these records show that more than 80 per cent of the school children need dental treatment; more than 10 per cent have diseased throats; more than 5 per cent have defective vision and hearing. This does not include the many cases of grosser troubles as incipient tuberculosis, malaria, hookworai, and serious undernourishment. Forty-five per cent of all school children who fail to pass beyond the seventh grade fail for physical reasons either incident to themselves or their parents. For the State to neglect these children means ever increasing demands on the Department of Education for extra facilities to provide for grade repeaters, wasted school efforts and a large per cent of adult illiterates arriving at maturity each year. It means taxing the State's resources more and more heavily to provide for the insane, the tubercular, the feeble-minded and the indigent. Now, what is the most practical thing to be done, in order -to most intelligently cope with the problem? From an administrative standpoint alone, it would be impossible to undertake a comprehensive plan for the examination and treatment of the children of all the State every year; therefore the bill as presented to the General Assembly provides for a program to be rotated every three years, for the present. The bill provides three distinct features: (1) for a preliminary physical examination by the teacher; (2) for a reexamination by an agent of the State Board of Health, and (3) provision for the treatment, special &nd dental,
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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 | 1917-1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-017 |
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. |
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 | 17 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2375275 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 59 |
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 | 1917-1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-017-0063 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news |
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. |
Filename | biennialreportof17nort_0063.jp2 |
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 | 17 |
Page Number | 59 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Sevexteexth Biennial Keport 59 upon the power of the flesh to act as a transforming machine on the sun's rays, absorbing the rays directly or indirectly and converting them into some form of energy available for sei'vice. The human body is more than a transforming station for the sun's rays; it is a shrine; it has the value of a holy temple which lifts it to other and higher considerations than that of the money changers. The Second Recommendation THAT A LAW BE ENACTED PROVIDING FOR THE EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF DEFECTIVE SCHOOL CHILDREN. The considerations on which these recommendations rest are as follows: "North Carolina's greatest resource is its child life/' Practically everybody now admits that the first requisite for the safety and prosperity of a State rests upon the physical fitness of its citizens. Thirty-eight per cent of the young men between twenty-one and thirty-one years of age called out in the draft of 1917 were physically unfit to go to war, on account of diseases and conditions w^hich could have been prevented to a large extent if treated in their earlier school years. In one county alone, of 700 young men examined, 678, all but 22, had already lost one or more of the first four permanent teeth which a child "cuts" at six years' of age. Every one of those teeth could have been saved by proper treatment and care if done under fourteen years of age. A defective child neglected grows into a liability to the community; if given proper care and assistance at the right time, the same child will become an asset ito his community. There are 803,257 children of school age in North Carolina. Within the past four years the State Board of Health has supervised the examination of about 200,000 children. This work was done by teachers, trained nurses and physicians. Children of all classes, ages and conditions of both sexes and colors have been included. This work has been done in all parts of the State, from counties as far west as Madison, Swain, and Macon to the eastern counties of Currituck and Camden. Upon a most conservative opinion as to diagnosis, these records show that more than 80 per cent of the school children need dental treatment; more than 10 per cent have diseased throats; more than 5 per cent have defective vision and hearing. This does not include the many cases of grosser troubles as incipient tuberculosis, malaria, hookworai, and serious undernourishment. Forty-five per cent of all school children who fail to pass beyond the seventh grade fail for physical reasons either incident to themselves or their parents. For the State to neglect these children means ever increasing demands on the Department of Education for extra facilities to provide for grade repeaters, wasted school efforts and a large per cent of adult illiterates arriving at maturity each year. It means taxing the State's resources more and more heavily to provide for the insane, the tubercular, the feeble-minded and the indigent. Now, what is the most practical thing to be done, in order -to most intelligently cope with the problem? From an administrative standpoint alone, it would be impossible to undertake a comprehensive plan for the examination and treatment of the children of all the State every year; therefore the bill as presented to the General Assembly provides for a program to be rotated every three years, for the present. The bill provides three distinct features: (1) for a preliminary physical examination by the teacher; (2) for a reexamination by an agent of the State Board of Health, and (3) provision for the treatment, special &nd dental, |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-02/nchh-02-017.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-a; nchh-02 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-02-017 |
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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