The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-23

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statement. note the rapid and steady
| progress Of the registration work
indicated on the chart by the total
number of certificates received durin-
the last five months.
Chart.
| anuar
February.
March.
April.
May.
Please note OF the chart showing
birth registration that twenu-fop-
counties have for the frs; four
months of the registration period
made practically complete returns
the chart. The t~horoughness of tho
birth registration for these counties
can be appreciated by comparing
their rates With the average birth
rate per thousand for the United
States. which was 26.6 per cent. TAX
ing the returns for last month in
stead of the average for the last four
months. sixty counties show complete
birth registration.
Note on the chart showing death
rates that twenty-one counties have
the average or more than the average
United States rate of 10 per 1000 for
the last four months. Taking the
returns of last month, thirty-one
counties registered more than the
average death rate. Pleasant scru-
1 IL il0S Civ 11il IL. lidIl
man Of your board of county commits
sionerS and the editor of your county
papers. when you go back home,
where You found their county in tho
registration work of the State-to-
ward the top or toward the bottom or
the list.
This is most gratifying progress. To
get it, the bureau has mailed since
the first of February, when DIR. Cor
don took charge, 6,114 personal let
49, 0c r O Q 49, l,Al
: Is, 166 provisional certificates. and has
: sent 1928 packages of supplies to un-
F, dertakers, physicians and registration
officials.
This amount of work, turned out in
SO short a time by an untried force
of workers engaged in u new field.
has been impossible without a few
mistakes. The faster you drive "a
~ machine the greater the liability to
; accident; the harder YOU drive a
; force of workers. the greater the LA
bility to mistakes. To me the say
; ing of MIR. Roosevelt, to-wit: The
) man who never makes a mistake
never does anything often bring
= comfort. Some little friction between
y those in the statistical work in the
II central office and those in the stats
teal work in the field, the doctors,
undertakers and local registrars. has
been inevitable. Sometimes the CEN
trail office has been at fault: some
n times these in the field have been at
fault. The central office, in sending
II out circulars to delinquent registrars,
doctors and undertakers, has in sew
" eral instances included in the list uf
IS those to whom the letters were adj
dressed registrars, doctors, and UNDER
takers that should not have received
$ such letters. We are sorry fer this.
AS the work becomes better organized
~ and the force of workers more experi-
u enced, these mistakes will be elimin-
' ated. In the meantime, we beg your
S patience. and we are sincerely appre-
A. clatlve of the praiseworthv ~co-opera-
n ton OF all those in the field concern
M ed in this work. and most especially
m do. we appreciate the co operation OF
IS. the medical profession. which is SO
a. evident in the very satisfactory birth
s, registration, for which the profession
IN IS primarily responsible.
ST The Bureau of Tuberculosis Includ-
ing the SapatOriunn.
North Carolina has a perfectly de.
II finite. clear-cut State policy fol
u handling the problem Of tuberculosis
The reason for adopting such I
~ policy is that tuberculosis stand.
III apart from all other problems Of I
- health department. in that it cause
o~ne-fourth Of all preventable deaths
re and therefore furnishes one-fourtl
&c OF the total opportunity of a board o
=, health to conserve human life.
ne The first consideration underIyin:
the state tuberculosis policy is tina
y the tuberculosis problem in bulk. un
~, divided. is bigger and heavier thai
" the State government can carry. Til
80 simplest calculation will make thi
= statement evident. There are fren
VI $4,000 to Is. 600 cases of active tn
600 to n ono of "i :
at least 1000 of the 1000 are unabl
70 procure the proper treatment.
costs, according to reports from tn
is q a., - ,hi,eu o'dte' 40
t,borc,a.i. - F,
80 SefVatlve in our estimate, let US s..
- that IN taking care of as many as 2
her ~ e. "a ~ = Ituutt
ua,Ia 80 NNh Iht!i
- z,Voe needy conSumptives $500 %
diem, or $4,000 per annum. whjc
is about Cne-fotrtb tho tot.1 .o.o.