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2 2 north carolina board of health. Owing to the disposition of people to reason post hoc inst<^ad oi propter hoc, the favorite theory doubtless with the residents is that the raising of the dam caused the trouble. But I can not see how that could have materially changed the conditions as to wet banks. On the contrary, by covering more of the low-lying lands and forcing the water closer up to the foot of the hills there ought to be an improvement in that respect, and I can not believe that enlarging the pond had anything to do with it. Malaria has been unusually prevalent in the hill country during the present season, regardless of raising dams. We know, too, that mosquitoes have been very much more in evidence than is customary, and that there seems to be a certain proportion between their numbers and the })revalence of malarial diseases. Emin or Slatin Pasha, I am not sure which, while he did not suspect mosquitoes, thought that malaria was a thing which could be kept out by nets, and was very ])articular in his journeyings through Africa to have them put up around him every night, and it is said he never had a malarial attack. The people of Swepsonville have doubtless had mosquitoes prior to the last two years without suffering from malaria. Can it be that those mosquitoes were uninfected with the Plasmodium, and that these containing the parasite were brought up from the coast in the cars? Or that mosquitoes from Stinking Creek, a fev/ miles distant, where malaria, I was told, had prevailed for many years, were blown over? I don't know, of course, but it seems to me not impossible. The late Dr. Johnson, of this city, in his interesting book on malaria, mentions the widespread prevalence of malaria in 1847 and 1848 throughout a number of our hill counties. Warren, Cfranville, Person and others, where it had never been known before. He does not give any explanation of the fact, but can you think of a more plausible one than mosquitoes blown up from our malarial low country by an easterly gale? But I will not pursue the subject further, but conclude with the expression of opinion that, in view of all the facts, including the absolutely demonstrated fact that Texas fever in cattle, the cause of which is a blood parasite attacking the red corpuscles of the blood and, therefore, very similar to the Plasmodium malarial, is transmitted by ticJc-s, and by ticks alone, I believe it is mosquitoes. Very truly yours. RICH'D H. LEWIS, (Secretary.
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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 | 1897-1898 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-007 |
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 | 7 |
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 | 1897-1898 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-007-0110 |
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 | 7 |
Page Number | 104 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 2 2 north carolina board of health. Owing to the disposition of people to reason post hoc inst<^ad oi propter hoc, the favorite theory doubtless with the residents is that the raising of the dam caused the trouble. But I can not see how that could have materially changed the conditions as to wet banks. On the contrary, by covering more of the low-lying lands and forcing the water closer up to the foot of the hills there ought to be an improvement in that respect, and I can not believe that enlarging the pond had anything to do with it. Malaria has been unusually prevalent in the hill country during the present season, regardless of raising dams. We know, too, that mosquitoes have been very much more in evidence than is customary, and that there seems to be a certain proportion between their numbers and the })revalence of malarial diseases. Emin or Slatin Pasha, I am not sure which, while he did not suspect mosquitoes, thought that malaria was a thing which could be kept out by nets, and was very ])articular in his journeyings through Africa to have them put up around him every night, and it is said he never had a malarial attack. The people of Swepsonville have doubtless had mosquitoes prior to the last two years without suffering from malaria. Can it be that those mosquitoes were uninfected with the Plasmodium, and that these containing the parasite were brought up from the coast in the cars? Or that mosquitoes from Stinking Creek, a fev/ miles distant, where malaria, I was told, had prevailed for many years, were blown over? I don't know, of course, but it seems to me not impossible. The late Dr. Johnson, of this city, in his interesting book on malaria, mentions the widespread prevalence of malaria in 1847 and 1848 throughout a number of our hill counties. Warren, Cfranville, Person and others, where it had never been known before. He does not give any explanation of the fact, but can you think of a more plausible one than mosquitoes blown up from our malarial low country by an easterly gale? But I will not pursue the subject further, but conclude with the expression of opinion that, in view of all the facts, including the absolutely demonstrated fact that Texas fever in cattle, the cause of which is a blood parasite attacking the red corpuscles of the blood and, therefore, very similar to the Plasmodium malarial, is transmitted by ticJc-s, and by ticks alone, I believe it is mosquitoes. Very truly yours. RICH'D H. LEWIS, (Secretary. |
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