The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-01-17
SANITARIANS, ATTENTION.
A CALL FOR "A GENERAL CON-
VENTION.
Those Interested n Matters Appertain-
ing to the Public Health Requested
to Meet in Convention at Raleigh
Feb. 9th, 1889.

nc interests dppeItalnlng 10 the
public health are of such increasing
importance that its demands can no
longer go unheedeed by the general
public. The time has come when men
Of all professions who have given the
subject of public and private sanitation
any consideration, should assemble to
interchange views, and begin in ear
nest the study of the living questions
which concern healthy homes and
healthy towns.
1. Many towns in the State have
reached a condition Of progress which
have brought them face to face with
the problems of sewerage and water
supply, involving vast sums of money
and the future health of unborn thou
sands.
2. Our State has numerous loca-
tions, the merits of which are attract
ing the attention of physicians and in
valids in many States, North and West,
and these must be studied by US with
definite purpose and concerted effort
that we may present the public with
authoritative statements as to the act
ual condition of our unoccupied sani-
taria.
3. The questions involved by the
appearance now and then of pestilen-
tial diseases in the States SO intimately
bound to US by railroad communica-
ton that their cause is our cause in a
philanthropic as we'll as a business
sense, that we must study them and
discuss them in order to disarm these
epidemics OF their great dangers, and
to quell the panics that do more harm,
if possible, than the pestilence.
4. The interests of the public health
of the State while of necessity, at this
stage of its development, intrusled to
the medical profession, must be de-
pendent for its vitality upon the in
terest the general public takes in it, for
it is the cause Of the. people. A Cen
ventlon, therefore, of the representa-
tives of the people, officials cognizant
of the defects of the sanitation of our
houses and towns and institutions, and
private citizens who have been study
ing with interest and practicing with
all the lights they have, the minuta
Of health laws, is a potent way Of dis
seminating information and of study
ing our defects and the ways to remedy
them.
For these and many other consider
ations we, the undersigned, deem it
appropriate to call Sanitary Conven-
ton to meet in Raleigh on Wednes-
day, the 9th day of February, 1889,
asking that a good attendance may be
had of County Superintendents Of
Health aad other officials entrusted
with the supervision of the public
health, and of farmers, lawyers, doc
tors, ministers, civil and mining engin-
GERS, mayors of towns, chairmen and
members Of the boards of county COM
missioners, supe perintendents of asylums
for the insane and INDECENT, officers in
charge of hospitals and penitentiaries,
school teachers, railroad officials, and
every citizen interested in the present
and future health of our communities
and homes.
After organization the following
topics will be presented:
"How can we best secure economi-
cal disposal of refuse in our towns ?"
"The prospects Of the future water
supply in our larger towns p
ssSome of the facts concerning the
Sanitaria in our State p
"What is being done towards pro-
viding healthful school-houses in the
smaller towns and in the country ?"
"How can we establish a Bureau of
Vital Statistics, that we may put on
record for our guidance and informa-
tion the destiny of the population as
regards births, diseases, deaths, and
the history of epidemcs dangerous to
the public health -
.'Our inland and maritime quarran-
tine %
"What is needed to sustain the
efforts of the North Carolina Board of
Health %
The undersigned unite in the above
call fully appreciating the great bene-
fits which may result to the health Of
the people by a full exchange Of
thoughts, and earnestly bespeak full
representation
Hon. John ]. Fowler, Mayor of
Wilmington.
Julian NJ. Baker, NJ. D., Superinten-
dent of Health, Edgecombe county.
Thomas F. Wood, NJ. D., Secretary
n. c. Board Of Health, Wilmington.
r. n. Williams, Esq, Chairman Of
County Commissioners, Edgecombe
county.
Hon. William E. Fountain, Mayor
of Tarboro.
George Gillett Thomas, NJ. D. Mem
Der of Quarantine Board, Cape Fear
River.