The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-23
PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS
NOW PARAMOUNT IN STATE

Second. The splendid campaigns
planned and executed by DR.. John A.
Terrell and DR.. c.. w. Stiles and their
efficient corp Of workers has carried
an untold influence for good into the
remotest regions Of the State. Too
| much credit cannot be given these
| men for their great work.
Third. l feel sure that l voice the
sentiment Of every active physician
| and health officer in North Carolina
when / say that the third great help
to us all has been the efficient. capa-
BILE work of DR.. C. A. Shore and the
State Laboratory of Hygiene. Person
ally / cannot say enough in commen-
datiOn of DR.. Shores unfailing cour-
tesy and his generous desire to help
us over our hard places.
On behalf of my brother county
and municipal health officers | must
saw hat there have been among
them many hard and efficient work
ers. And again less distinctive but
no less important, in bringing about
the changed conditions of health
work, has been the almost universal
assistance given us By the newspapers
of the State.
Many Great Advances.
We have seen during this past year
many great advances-tO enumerate
in part-The whole time county
! health work has been established on a
4, firm and lasting basis. It's worth ana
importance nave been demonstrated
in enough representative %counties OF
the State to be now an accepted fact.
We have seen the vast machinery
), of the vital statistics law swing into
action, and / do not need dwell on It's
Importance. With the Bureau Of
:, Vital Statistics established and a re-
sponsible chief at It's head we will
. soon have the pleasure of seeing our
ont;ro Sfato Cro6ifod To the National
7 Registration area. The Bureau of
County Health has been established
and that work is of vast Importance
to the entire State. The Bureau of
? Education has continued valuable
= publicity work. The reorganization
r of the State Sanitorium for Tubercu-
losis has been fully accomplished. 1t
means great things to all North Caro-
. lima. The beginning of free distribu-
t ton of prophylactic typhoid vaccine
= by the State Laboratory Of Hygiene in
January of this year is one Of the
e most important n in the States
= history. The establishment at Salem
burg. Sampson county, of the first Of
s: fetal effort at community life, by
which North Carolina leads the South,
marks an epoch in community health
work which is destined to revolution
r ize the work of rural sanitation. /
d could go on indefinitely, but enough
has been said.
Something of the Needs.
u Now let us consider something OF
our needs. Greater opportunities
q mean greater responsibilities.
- If North Carolina, in common with
the other States CT the South, is to
build up n maintain a strong rural
~ life, sweeping changes must take
place. More attention must be paid tC
70 community effort and less importance
is attached to individual methods Of
70 doing things. One OF the things
20 which I have my heart set on for one
a community in my home county O.
ne Sampson, and which can be made ap
ne plicable to every community in tn,
State that desires to adopt it is, tt
In ask the Legislature to give us lega
ca permission to organize one
RS ty. And for convenience, we hav,
Sc adopted the school district as alread,
established. We want to organic
with a board Of councillors having
re president and other necessary officers
re corresponding to the Mayor and Com
m~issioners Of the small towns. w
ce want legal authority to dc police duty
TT dispose Of petty offences just as tn
mayors do, authority to demand SAM
in tary conditions of every citizen resid
-e- ing in the community. In other word:
he we want to max an effort to give tn
Fly people Of the rural communities VIII
rk need 1T worse than any class of pee
pie on earth, the opportunity to pro
ne tect themselves, from the %standpoir
n Of health, morals, education an
ter finances, and to develop their re
inn sources.
er, Wants New University Chair.
ay There has been recently establishe
nj at the University Of North Caro4in
the chair of Applied Economics an
or- Rural Sociology. Well and goo
raj But o let's go on to an actual nece
in sity and establish the chair of Apple
(. Hygiene and Rural Sanitation. WI
not? If there is any one thing o,
ke- rural population need worse than an,
the thing else it is rural sanitation. E
18th tabliSh that chair at Chapel Hill ar
be- so out into the field and get a ma
to fill it who knows the great need
ns- the country people along these lin
It'll and in a short while you will begin
see definite results. We are alrea,
in need of trained health officers, al
the need will soon rapidly- increas
al and a man trained at our own Sta
University will understand our peoE
and be able to meet our own loo
rec conditions Il thousand times hett