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

feel like weeping. You cap sooner
teach a Pole OF Hun. from the
Colorado coal mines how to cultivate
cotton in Robson county tnan you
can impress on the mind or a Harvard
health officer that health problems In
the rural South are essentially oller-
ent from those in Boston.
The State of Texas already has It's
department of Preventive Medicine
at the State University. We must not
lag.
Doctor Rosenau says that
in every branch of preventive meul.
cine depends most upon the efforts or
physicians.'' And every man here
knows that to be a fact. therefore,,
one of our foremost needs is to get
the great body Of physicians In North
Carolina to support US ana heip US OUT
in this work if we would achieve per-
manent success. And approached IN
the right manner not a physician II
the State but will give freely ana
cheerfully Of his time and influence
to aid in public health advancement.
Larger Appropriation.
We want to see that when n Leg
| islature meets again that the appro
| priation for the State Laboratory OF
| Hygiene is sufficient to enable DR..
Shore to produce the Pasteur serum,
vaccine virus, diphtheria anti-toxin,
as we'll as prOphylactic typhoid vac
cine for the use of every physician
and health officer in the State free
for, all the people, rich and poor.
we need a closer relationship be-
tween the State Board Of Health n
it's officers and the various county
health interests. 1t is a delicate mat
ter and full dangerous possibilities to
all concerned for the State health Of
ficers to undertake to even offer sug-
gestiOnS as to the selection of county
health officers and county physicians.
And on the other hand the State
Board OF Health is in position, or
should be, to know who comes nearer
to performing standard service in
health work, a scOmpared with State
and national requirements. The State
Board Of Health should stan ready
at all times to act in an advisory and
helpful capacity. The men who are
working as county health officers are
doing pioneer work, and there are
many difficult problems to be met and
solved. Motives are questioned. H.
cense is still mistaken for liberty by
numbers of people, complaint at in.
crease Of taxes is heard, the death
rate from preventable diseases is
still regarded in many quarters a.
the dispensation Of Providence. AnG
in the solution of all the thousand
problems, the State Board of Health
should be ever ready with assistance
and guidance, ever bearing in mint
that it is for the welfare Of the whole
people.
Work Withoat Friction.
Together we should evolve a plal
Of work based on a permanent sys
tenn by which the great work o
! county health may go forward with
out friction. Such a plan can an,
! will be found at this meeting, which
1 will eliminate all causes for jealousie
or unfriendly competition. And which
will enable every man engaged i
county or municipal health work i
the State to EEL free to consult wit
and all times.
0 Gentlemen, we are engaged in tn
l greatest work Of modern times, tn
e moderation of suffering and the con
servatiOn of human life. Our work
e in the quiet places, the laboratory
f the school room, with disease char
8 and the cause and prevention Of dis
e ease. When we do have to go out o
the firing line it is often in the pei
Torrance of unpleasant tasks, an
9 consequently we are the target fo
O many shafts some of them poisoned
Our material reward is barely SUI
f1cient for the n~ecessaries Of lif
When we give the best OF service
Y it is often years before the very pee
e pie most benefited realize what he
a been done for them. But when
S, think o f>the hundreds of Thousand
l. Of children in North Carolina const
e tuting our most important asset, WI
may by the application Of the broa
le principles Of medical inspection of a
j. school children. improved teachir
l. methods, longer school terms, abs,
IS, luteiy no night work for children vi
he der sixteen years of age, and mode
10 sanitary environment in ahe hon
o. and school,; when | think Of the DO
O. sibiiities Of such a future citizenshi
mt | am willing to give my own pal
I'd my life, for such a cause.
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