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 among the intervening ages. The same history is recorded year after year. It is the business of a health department to make the traveling of the infants less hazardous, to reduce the preventable toll taken from those of active age, and to defer the embarkation of those of advanced years as long as possible. The practical question is, how may these things be done? The equally practical answer is, by efficiency, honesty and industry on the part of health department personnel, county, city, and state, in vigorously teaching the people how to apply the scientific principles of disease and accident prevention. We herewith set forth some of the things that might be done. Every prospective bride and groom might be taught the dangers of venereal disease with the disastrous consequences which so often follow such infection. Every prospective mother should receive expert care and advice during the entire pre-natal period. She should have the proper kind of food in adequate quantity. Any abnormal condition manifesting itself should have immediate medical attention. During the birth process every needful attention should be available. Thus the maternal dangers may be largely eliminated. The infant then, given a healthy heritage free from venereal infection, may have at least an even start. Every infant born should have right from its first hour the inalienable right of nourishment from its mother's breast, unless a competent physician certifies that breast feeding would be dangerous for the mother and disastrous for the infant. Soap is cheap and water, fresh air and sunlight in North Carolina is practically unlimited the year round. The baby should, therefore, have a clean bed, regardless of rags or poverty (the rags can be clean ones), mother's milk, sunlight and clean air. The male relative with pipe or cigar, or the mother with cigarette, should be equally barred from the baby's presence as the visitor with a cold. Give the baby air free from the germs of respiratory infection, the irritating effects of nicotine loaded smoke, good breast milk, a clean bed, good heritage from healthy parents, let it alone and the chances are better than even the baby will do the rest for the first eight or nine months of life. Careful attention to the establishment of health habits with assurance of right kind of food, frequent inspection by the family physician and dentist will take care of the pre-school period and ensure the presentation of a healthy young animal to the school at the ripe and experienced age of six. These first six years are the important ones. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 64: January, 1949 I do not wish to make this tribute merely a personal history. But I cannot forbear to say two or three things out of an experience which can only have been one in common with thousands of others, indeed with all who became his patients during his long and devoted career. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 50: January, 1935 In order to set forth concisely and clearly just the character and scope of the service and cooperation the State Board Of Health extends to the public, the editor Of the health bulletin has asked the director of each depart ment to prepare a statement carefully describing precisely what his depart ment is doing, or is prepared to do, in advancing the cause of public health. We are, therefore, setting forth below a statement from each one of the division heads of the North Carolina State Board of Health. The publication Of these articles should supply valuable information to the reading public, and especially to the medical profession, health officials, and other organizations, such as the women's clubs, teachers' associations, and so on. Any individual or organization de siring additional information concern ing any Of the departmental activities herein described, or who wishes to avail himself of the service, may Oh tain additional information and a prompt response by simply writing to the State Board of Health, Raleigh, North Carolina. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1937, Vol. 52 As a rule, you cannot medicate peo ple into a better personality, a better frame of mind or a better adjustment. Usually something else is necessary. The use of drugs, particularly mor phine and whisky, is an unsafe way of escaping reality. It leaves the per son less able to face his problems than ever before. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1934, Vol. 49: No. 1-12 The purpose of this mention here is to urge upon people again, for their own protection, the importance of thoroughly cooking all pork before it is eaten. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, 1943, Vol. 58 These scruples a sensible Clergy may in time remove. The expense of having the operation performed by a Surgeon weighs with others, for that has been pretty high in some parts of America; and when a common tradesman or artificer has a number in his family to have the distemper, it amounts to more money than he can well spare. Many of these, rather than own the true motive for declining Inoculation join with the scrupulous in the cry against it, and influence others. 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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.