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290 bulleti-sr n. c. state board of health. problem in its relation to public health. This inquiry has shown that health officers have given very little specific attention to liquor as a cause of preventable death. In our opinion the health officers of the country have been too slow in recognizing their relation to the liquor problem; however, we believe that once they have recognized that the fight against alcoholic intemperance is their fight, they will give such telling support to the forces of temperance as to largely atone for the lateness of the hour in which they come upon the field of battle. Probable Method of Attach by Health Officers,—The public health forces will introduce somewhat of a distinctly new method of attack in fighting the liquor question. Much educational work has been done in the past in opposing alcoholic intemperance^ but much of that work has been discounted on the ground that it was being carried on by ^^temperance cranks," extremists. Now, if boards of healthy as representing states or counties, should engage in this fight, the educational work that they would do, and this would be their only point of attack, could not be discounted to the same extent as the work of private individuals or temperance organizations has been; moreover, the health authorities in attacking the liquor problem would lay special stress on certain phases of the problem that we believe have not been sufficiently impressed upon the public mind; (a) such phases as the false idea of liquor being an aid in physical or mental work; (b) the fact that a man drinks raises a question as to the stability of his mind to begin with, that is, that the liquor habit is often the result, not the cause of mental weakness, and therefore, the drinking habit is a reflection on a man's sanity; and (c), last and strongest we would stress the effect of liquor on heredity, its effect "unto the children of the third and fourth generation." With such able men behind our guns as Dr. Aldert S. Koot, Dr. Cyrus Thompson, and Mr. Clarence Poe, as we have in this issue of the Bulletin, we are firing this, our first broadside of a forty-one thousand edition of the Bulletin against the forces of alcoholic intemperance. We have a large amount of ammunition in reserve, and the readers of the Bulletin will hear from us from time to time on this question. North Carolina, ^ , x -n n- ^ ^ ^ \ In Court of Public Opinion. State Board of Health. ) THE PUBLIC vs. THE LIQUOK PROBLEM BILL OF PARTICULARS. poverty. i First. That liquor causes twenty-five (25) per cent of all poverty ; handled by charitable organizations. j Second. That liquor causes thirty-seven (37) per cent of all poverty handled by almshouses. ^ ^ |j Third. That liquor causes forty-five (45) per cent of destitution among children. crime. Fourth. That liquor is an accessory cause of fifty (50) per cent of all crime, the principal accessory cause in thirty-one (31) per cent of all crime, and the sole cause of sixteen (16) per cent of all crime.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-03: Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1912-1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-027 |
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 | 27 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 290 |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1912-1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-027-0298 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial |
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 | 27 |
Issue Number | 9 |
Page Number | 290 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 290 bulleti-sr n. c. state board of health. problem in its relation to public health. This inquiry has shown that health officers have given very little specific attention to liquor as a cause of preventable death. In our opinion the health officers of the country have been too slow in recognizing their relation to the liquor problem; however, we believe that once they have recognized that the fight against alcoholic intemperance is their fight, they will give such telling support to the forces of temperance as to largely atone for the lateness of the hour in which they come upon the field of battle. Probable Method of Attach by Health Officers,—The public health forces will introduce somewhat of a distinctly new method of attack in fighting the liquor question. Much educational work has been done in the past in opposing alcoholic intemperance^ but much of that work has been discounted on the ground that it was being carried on by ^^temperance cranks" extremists. Now, if boards of healthy as representing states or counties, should engage in this fight, the educational work that they would do, and this would be their only point of attack, could not be discounted to the same extent as the work of private individuals or temperance organizations has been; moreover, the health authorities in attacking the liquor problem would lay special stress on certain phases of the problem that we believe have not been sufficiently impressed upon the public mind; (a) such phases as the false idea of liquor being an aid in physical or mental work; (b) the fact that a man drinks raises a question as to the stability of his mind to begin with, that is, that the liquor habit is often the result, not the cause of mental weakness, and therefore, the drinking habit is a reflection on a man's sanity; and (c), last and strongest we would stress the effect of liquor on heredity, its effect "unto the children of the third and fourth generation." With such able men behind our guns as Dr. Aldert S. Koot, Dr. Cyrus Thompson, and Mr. Clarence Poe, as we have in this issue of the Bulletin, we are firing this, our first broadside of a forty-one thousand edition of the Bulletin against the forces of alcoholic intemperance. We have a large amount of ammunition in reserve, and the readers of the Bulletin will hear from us from time to time on this question. North Carolina, ^ , x -n n- ^ ^ ^ \ In Court of Public Opinion. State Board of Health. ) THE PUBLIC vs. THE LIQUOK PROBLEM BILL OF PARTICULARS. poverty. i First. That liquor causes twenty-five (25) per cent of all poverty ; handled by charitable organizations. j Second. That liquor causes thirty-seven (37) per cent of all poverty handled by almshouses. ^ ^ |j Third. That liquor causes forty-five (45) per cent of destitution among children. crime. Fourth. That liquor is an accessory cause of fifty (50) per cent of all crime, the principal accessory cause in thirty-one (31) per cent of all crime, and the sole cause of sixteen (16) per cent of all crime. |
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