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52 ' nOHTH CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH to be placed in charge of the special lines of work of our Board has atoned for an otherwise unavoidable violation of the foregoing principle in organized work. The Board's executive officer has not had, on our very limited appropriation, sufficient assistance to even carry out as they should have been the executive and educational functions of the Board, and therefore has certainly not had sufficient time to keep in as close touch with the special lines of work of the Board as the importance and proper coordination of the work demanded. The wise selection by the Executive Committee of a competent assistant to the Secretary, Mr. Warren H. Booker, will remedy this defect in the future. Mr, Booker's education as a civil engineer and his experience in the engineering department of the Ohio State Board of Health makes available in the office of the Secretary expert advice so frequently needed in public health work. I am sure that Mr. Booker, in securing and interpreting for the Board important data bearing upon filtration, sewerage and purification plants, drainage problems, and other engineering concerns, will thoroughly justify his selection by the Executive Committee, as my association with him so far has strongly indicated. Specialized public health work takes different forms in different places. Most boards of health, as soon as they can execute the health laws and carry on a fairly well sustained educational campaign, take up laboratory work in hygiene. Others develop a division of industrial hygiene. Some develop a system of medical inspection of schools, a strong tendency where the urban population is large. Most boards, however, specialize in the direction of certain diseases—in the North, tuberculosis; in the South, hookworm disease; in the tropics, yellow fever and malaria. It is gratifying to know that the two special divisions of work under the North Carolina State Board of Health in all probability have no equals in the South. The State Laboratory of Hygiene has done more analyses in the last two years than any other similar laboratory in the South, and in the hookworm campaign the man directing it, Dr. Perrell, and the amount of money invested by the State in it, puts us well in the front of this work in other States. Through a recent arrangement between the Board of Health and the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, an anti-tuberculosis campaign will be inaugurated in the early fall. The plan of this work will be comprehensive and will be carefully worked out before any active steps are taken. The completion and final equipment of the sanatorium at Montrose as a basis of supplies and center of activity in this conjoint work, with the campaign supported by two or perhaps three men and pushed with determination, gives us good reason to look upon the tuberculosis situation in North Carolina as encouraging. The Board of Health work has therefore two well developed branches, with a third started. a parting word. What part is the State Medical Society, the County Medical Society, and the individual doctor playing in this great organized conquest of disease? Has the profession exhausted its resources in behalf of the public health? Is anything short of that obedience to the highest professional duty? Would it not be well for the President to appoint a committee to recommend to this Society three things: First, certain definite lines of public health work that the State Society should engage in; second, definite public health work that
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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 52 |
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-02-014-0056 |
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. |
Filename | biennialreportof14nort_0056.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 | 14 |
Page Number | 52 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 52 ' nOHTH CAROLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH to be placed in charge of the special lines of work of our Board has atoned for an otherwise unavoidable violation of the foregoing principle in organized work. The Board's executive officer has not had, on our very limited appropriation, sufficient assistance to even carry out as they should have been the executive and educational functions of the Board, and therefore has certainly not had sufficient time to keep in as close touch with the special lines of work of the Board as the importance and proper coordination of the work demanded. The wise selection by the Executive Committee of a competent assistant to the Secretary, Mr. Warren H. Booker, will remedy this defect in the future. Mr, Booker's education as a civil engineer and his experience in the engineering department of the Ohio State Board of Health makes available in the office of the Secretary expert advice so frequently needed in public health work. I am sure that Mr. Booker, in securing and interpreting for the Board important data bearing upon filtration, sewerage and purification plants, drainage problems, and other engineering concerns, will thoroughly justify his selection by the Executive Committee, as my association with him so far has strongly indicated. Specialized public health work takes different forms in different places. Most boards of health, as soon as they can execute the health laws and carry on a fairly well sustained educational campaign, take up laboratory work in hygiene. Others develop a division of industrial hygiene. Some develop a system of medical inspection of schools, a strong tendency where the urban population is large. Most boards, however, specialize in the direction of certain diseases—in the North, tuberculosis; in the South, hookworm disease; in the tropics, yellow fever and malaria. It is gratifying to know that the two special divisions of work under the North Carolina State Board of Health in all probability have no equals in the South. The State Laboratory of Hygiene has done more analyses in the last two years than any other similar laboratory in the South, and in the hookworm campaign the man directing it, Dr. Perrell, and the amount of money invested by the State in it, puts us well in the front of this work in other States. Through a recent arrangement between the Board of Health and the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, an anti-tuberculosis campaign will be inaugurated in the early fall. The plan of this work will be comprehensive and will be carefully worked out before any active steps are taken. The completion and final equipment of the sanatorium at Montrose as a basis of supplies and center of activity in this conjoint work, with the campaign supported by two or perhaps three men and pushed with determination, gives us good reason to look upon the tuberculosis situation in North Carolina as encouraging. The Board of Health work has therefore two well developed branches, with a third started. a parting word. What part is the State Medical Society, the County Medical Society, and the individual doctor playing in this great organized conquest of disease? Has the profession exhausted its resources in behalf of the public health? Is anything short of that obedience to the highest professional duty? Would it not be well for the President to appoint a committee to recommend to this Society three things: First, certain definite lines of public health work that the State Society should engage in; second, definite public health work that |
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