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MINTII BIENNIAL REPORT. 77 MISCELLANEOUS SANITARY INSPECTIONS. malarial fevers at greexsboko. Raleigh, March 25, 1901. The Coi nty Sanitarv Committee, Guilford Couvty. Gentlemen :—In compliance witli your request I visited Greens-hero on Tuesday, the 19th inst., and in company with Drs. Beall and Fox of your committee and Dr. Harrison. County Superintendent of Health, made an inspection of the locality in \vhicli malarial diseases have been prevailing, and respectfully heg leave to report: The conditions universally accepted as productive of the malarial poison, according to both the old and the modein theory of its causation, are ponds, pools of stagnant water and low marshy lands during the warm season. The old theory of malaria was that it was a miasm or gas evolved from decaying vegetable matter under conditions of heat and moisture, the poison being distributed by air currents. The view generally held now by the medical world is that the malarial poison is not a gas or miasm but a blood parasite, first demonstrated in the blood of malarial patients by the French physician Lavei-an in 1880; that this blood parasite, or Plasmodium muluricc, in its life cycle requires for its perfect development, in common with many other parasites, what is known as an "intermediate host," and that the particular host in this case is a certain species of mosquito known as anopheles, the common or domestic mosquito of the culex variety being innocent in this respect. So that the conditions which breed mosquitoes, viz., ponds, and especially small, stagnant pools devoid of fish, which eat the larvae, or '^viggletails," propagate malaria. I found in the small streams running through the proposed park on Elm street, extended, very crooked. Crooked streams all have numerous holes at their curves. Those particular rivulets are said to be wet-weather streams, which cease running in times of drought. In consequence the many little pools would become stagnant, and ideal breeding places for mosquitoes. In addition, and chiefly, I found several reservoirs and ponds connected with the Finishing, the Proximity and the Revolution mills, and a considerable expanse of wet, marshy, bottom lands above these mills. In my opinion the conditions above set foith are clearly a menace to the public health. At the same time they are inimical to the business interests of the owners of the lands in that neighborhool by reducing their value, of the county in the, smaller revenue derived from their low assessment, and of the mill owners by causing sickness among their operatives. With due regard to the interests of all concerned,
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
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. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901-1902 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-009 |
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 | 9 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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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. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901-1902 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-009-0085 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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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 | 9 |
Page Number | 77 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | MINTII BIENNIAL REPORT. 77 MISCELLANEOUS SANITARY INSPECTIONS. malarial fevers at greexsboko. Raleigh, March 25, 1901. The Coi nty Sanitarv Committee, Guilford Couvty. Gentlemen :—In compliance witli your request I visited Greens-hero on Tuesday, the 19th inst., and in company with Drs. Beall and Fox of your committee and Dr. Harrison. County Superintendent of Health, made an inspection of the locality in \vhicli malarial diseases have been prevailing, and respectfully heg leave to report: The conditions universally accepted as productive of the malarial poison, according to both the old and the modein theory of its causation, are ponds, pools of stagnant water and low marshy lands during the warm season. The old theory of malaria was that it was a miasm or gas evolved from decaying vegetable matter under conditions of heat and moisture, the poison being distributed by air currents. The view generally held now by the medical world is that the malarial poison is not a gas or miasm but a blood parasite, first demonstrated in the blood of malarial patients by the French physician Lavei-an in 1880; that this blood parasite, or Plasmodium muluricc, in its life cycle requires for its perfect development, in common with many other parasites, what is known as an "intermediate host" and that the particular host in this case is a certain species of mosquito known as anopheles, the common or domestic mosquito of the culex variety being innocent in this respect. So that the conditions which breed mosquitoes, viz., ponds, and especially small, stagnant pools devoid of fish, which eat the larvae, or '^viggletails" propagate malaria. I found in the small streams running through the proposed park on Elm street, extended, very crooked. Crooked streams all have numerous holes at their curves. Those particular rivulets are said to be wet-weather streams, which cease running in times of drought. In consequence the many little pools would become stagnant, and ideal breeding places for mosquitoes. In addition, and chiefly, I found several reservoirs and ponds connected with the Finishing, the Proximity and the Revolution mills, and a considerable expanse of wet, marshy, bottom lands above these mills. In my opinion the conditions above set foith are clearly a menace to the public health. At the same time they are inimical to the business interests of the owners of the lands in that neighborhool by reducing their value, of the county in the, smaller revenue derived from their low assessment, and of the mill owners by causing sickness among their operatives. With due regard to the interests of all concerned, |
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