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FOURTKENTII BIKNXIAL REPORT 31 amongst us, coming we know not Avhence. When a surgeon rushes into a railroad Avreek, he Avisely attends first to those Avhose lives are in the greatest danger. A health department should do likewise—it should direct its life-saving efforts into those places where its work is most demanded—by what ?—hy high death rates. Where are such places in Xorth Carolina? "What section of our State, what county, is sickest? Or, to recast that question, Avhat section of the State or what counties of the State have the highest death rate from all causes? What county has the highest tuberculosis death rate? In what county is typhoid fever most rife? In what counties are deaths of children from the contagions most frequent, or, in other words, in what counties are proper quarantine laws most needed? Xo man knows nor can know, without a registration law, the answer to these vital questions. The State Health Officer, in treating diseases of unknown location in the body politic, is like a doctor treating a patient with a complication of diseases, knowing neither which organ is most involved nor Avhich of the group of diseases he should treat first. The following incident, that actually occurred in the executive office of the Xorth Carolina State Board of Health, illustrates the preceding paragraph: A short time ago a gentleman came into the office and introduced himself as representing the Baron Hirsch fund of millions of dollars, which Avas bequeathed for the social and industrial advancement of immigrant Jews to the United States. The visitor stated that he was engaged in investigating; agricultural and health conditions in the Southern States, and would devote eight or nine months to his task. Some time previously a colony of JeAvish immigrants had been placed in Texas; the colony had not been there long before seA'eral of them died of malarial fever. Being unaccustomed to malaria the disease had all the terrL^rs to the new colonized immigrants of a neAV and strange disease. The colony at once disbanded and left, and the property had to be sold at a loss. The board of directors of this fund were, therefore, interested in the health conditions of the South, as well as in her agricultural resources. The gentleman stated that they would locate several colonies, and each colony avouIcI be composed of from fifty to one hundred jeaa^sh families and equipped Avith cooperative banks, stores, and other con-A^eniences of a thoroughly modern, progressive community. He said that they proposed to purchase from 5,000 to 50,000 acres of land and to invest from $500,000 to $1,000,000 in each colony. This gentleman had begun his investigation in Washington. He had first gone to the Department of Agriculture and secured very full and satisfactory information with regard to agricultural conditions in the Southern States. He had been directed to call on Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, Chief Statistician of the Bureau of the Census, as the man from whom he could get information as to the comparatiA^e healthfulness of different sections of the country and States. When he made this request of Dr. Wilbur that official pointed to a large map of the United States hanging near at hand on the wall. Said he, "You see the map is made up of some States in red and others in white; ask me anything you A\^sh about the health of the States in red and I can give you exact informa-
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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 | 1911-1912 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-014 |
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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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 | 14 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 31 |
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 | 1911-1912 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-014-0035 |
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 | 14 |
Page Number | 31 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | FOURTKENTII BIKNXIAL REPORT 31 amongst us, coming we know not Avhence. When a surgeon rushes into a railroad Avreek, he Avisely attends first to those Avhose lives are in the greatest danger. A health department should do likewise—it should direct its life-saving efforts into those places where its work is most demanded—by what ?—hy high death rates. Where are such places in Xorth Carolina? "What section of our State, what county, is sickest? Or, to recast that question, Avhat section of the State or what counties of the State have the highest death rate from all causes? What county has the highest tuberculosis death rate? In what county is typhoid fever most rife? In what counties are deaths of children from the contagions most frequent, or, in other words, in what counties are proper quarantine laws most needed? Xo man knows nor can know, without a registration law, the answer to these vital questions. The State Health Officer, in treating diseases of unknown location in the body politic, is like a doctor treating a patient with a complication of diseases, knowing neither which organ is most involved nor Avhich of the group of diseases he should treat first. The following incident, that actually occurred in the executive office of the Xorth Carolina State Board of Health, illustrates the preceding paragraph: A short time ago a gentleman came into the office and introduced himself as representing the Baron Hirsch fund of millions of dollars, which Avas bequeathed for the social and industrial advancement of immigrant Jews to the United States. The visitor stated that he was engaged in investigating; agricultural and health conditions in the Southern States, and would devote eight or nine months to his task. Some time previously a colony of JeAvish immigrants had been placed in Texas; the colony had not been there long before seA'eral of them died of malarial fever. Being unaccustomed to malaria the disease had all the terrL^rs to the new colonized immigrants of a neAV and strange disease. The colony at once disbanded and left, and the property had to be sold at a loss. The board of directors of this fund were, therefore, interested in the health conditions of the South, as well as in her agricultural resources. The gentleman stated that they would locate several colonies, and each colony avouIcI be composed of from fifty to one hundred jeaa^sh families and equipped Avith cooperative banks, stores, and other con-A^eniences of a thoroughly modern, progressive community. He said that they proposed to purchase from 5,000 to 50,000 acres of land and to invest from $500,000 to $1,000,000 in each colony. This gentleman had begun his investigation in Washington. He had first gone to the Department of Agriculture and secured very full and satisfactory information with regard to agricultural conditions in the Southern States. He had been directed to call on Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, Chief Statistician of the Bureau of the Census, as the man from whom he could get information as to the comparatiA^e healthfulness of different sections of the country and States. When he made this request of Dr. Wilbur that official pointed to a large map of the United States hanging near at hand on the wall. Said he, "You see the map is made up of some States in red and others in white; ask me anything you A\^sh about the health of the States in red and I can give you exact informa- |
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