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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1891 Resolved, Isl. When one case, or a few cases, of yellow fever occur in any community, it does not follow of necessity that the disease must spread and become epidemic. On the contrary, the experience of many countries through long periods of time shows conclusively that in the majority of such instances, and without the observance of any special means of prophylaxis, the...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 57: January, 1942 After nineteen years of continuous service as editor of The Health Bulletin, Dr. G. M. Cooper has been granted a leave of absence for an indeterminate period. This is the cause of genuine regret to the staff of the State Board of Health and to the readers of the 60, 000 copies of the Bulletin that are distributed each month. The increase in activities of the Division of Health Educatio...

Excerpt from Ninth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health: 1901 1902 While there has been progress, we think, on all sanitary lines since our last report, slow and halting it is true, in some directions, there undoubtedly has been an advance. This is to be noted particularly in the biological work done for the Board during the past two years in the laboratory and by the Biologist of the Department of Agriculture. Although this ...

Excerpt from Free Dental Clinics in North Carolina: Traveling Dental Service for Rural School Children During the Summer of 1918We have made many mistakes, some inexcusable, but most of them una voidable. A beginning has been made, however, in a great field of service for the children of the State, and in the years to come that beginning will be looked upon as an event of historic importance, because it is something that has come to stay.There...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1920, Vol. 35 The importance of the initial effort in cooperative county health work, as is described in this issue of the Bulletin, is realized when we reflect, first, that the larger part of our country's population is rural, and, second, that on the vitality and efficiency of the rural population depend the food supply and the cost of living - the first consideration of every citizen whether of the country...

Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health: July 1, 1932 June 30, 1934 Raleigh, N.C., September 25, 1934. His Excellency, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Governor of North Carolina. My Dear Sir, - Under Authority of Chapter 118, Article 1, Section 7050, Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina, I have to submit to you for transmission to the General Assembly the Biennial Report of the State Board of Health f...

Excerpt from Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health, 1911 His Excellency, O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina. My Dear Sir: - Under authority of chapter 118, Article 1, Section 7050, Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina, I have to submit to you for transmission to the General Assembly the Biennial Report of the State Board of Health for the period July 1, 1928, to June 30, 1930. About the Publisher Forgotte...

Excerpt from Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1913, Vol. 28 The great epidemics of the 70's brought forcibly to the attention of the people the necessity for organized public health work. Though the first State Board of Health was based upon the suggestion of a woman in Massachusetts, during a typhoid epidemic in that state, the American Public Health Association, organized in 1872, was the chief influence towards organized Sta...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1915, Vol. 30 All outdoors is ours for the taking - the health of sunshine and fresh air and that good feeling that comes extra. Usually what is food for flics is poison for man. Where they feed you should not feed. Where they swarm they find something to eat. If it is in the meat shop, the cafes or restaurants, the grocery stores or your own kitchen, you should not cat there. If for some reason you did not...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1926, Vol. 41 We are just now reaching the season when pneumonia is beginning to take its most terrific toll of human life. During January, February and March more people die from this disease than during the remaining nine months of the year. During these three months of 1925 pneumonia killed, in North Carolina, at the rate of over five hundred per month. If you live in a village of five hundred people, thi...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin Of course, concern for the health of the people is nothing new for us. North Carolina pioneered in the Better Health Movement during the 1940's and has never ceased its efforts to improve services. Under the leadership of the State Board of Health, an excellent system of local public health services has been developed. During this biennium a total of $800, 000 was made available in State aid to local health d...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1930, Vol. 45 Facing a new year is an adventure for every living human being from the infant in its crib to the individual who has marked off three score and ten years. For many of the infants, too many of them, the journey will be perilous. For many of the aged it will mean embarkation on the "Third Puzzle" of human existence. Accidents and untimely deaths, most of which are preventable, will take heavy toll...

Excerpt from Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health, Vol. 17: April, 1902 The measures recommended for safeguarding the health of others in time of sickness comprise isolation, prevention of dissemination of infectious material, and disinfection, and these, I predict, will be enforced at no distant day by all intelligent communities not alone in the so-called contagious diseases, but in all diseases of a serious nature spread directly...

Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health: July 1, 1930 June 30, 1932In the seventies Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood, of Wilmington, caught the vision Of. The possibilities of public health work to North Carolina. How fully he grasped the far-reaching consequences of his idea, how clearly he saw the ever - growing hosts of lives saved as a result of his vision and inspiration, we shall never know. We do kn...

Excerpt from Forty-First Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health: July 1, 1964 June 30, 1966I do not like this business of coming to the end of an administration. I do not like this business of going around and saying that the time has come to say goodbye. I can't quite figure out what the proper approach is. In any event, I did not want to get out of office without expressing my appreciation and thanks.About the PublisherF...

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Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 53: January, 1938The activities and services of the State Board of Health are so numer ous and so varied that space will only allow the briefest reference to them in outline form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art t...

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 42: January, 1927Sometime ago Surgeon General Cum ming of the U. S. Public Health Service announced that National Negro Health Week would be observed this year from April 3 to 11. The U. S. Public Health Service and all of the different state boards of health throughout the coun try heartily endorse the observance of this week. One notable item which is deserving especial mention is the very hopeful annou...

Excerpt from Thirty-First Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board Health: July 1, 1944 June 30, 1946 In the seventies Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood, of Wilmington, caught the vision of the possibilities of public health work to North Carolina. How fully he grasped the far-reaching consequences of his idea, how clearly he saw the ever-growing hosts of lives saved as a result of his vision and inspiration, we shall never know. We do know th...

Excerpt from Thirty-Fourth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health: July 1, 1950 June 30, 1952 Note: Indented counties are not a part of the health department immediately preceding them, but are merely served by the same Health Officer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical ...