The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-23
WORK OF THE STATE BOARD
OF HEALTH FOR PAST YEAR
-Four New Bureaus Established, Making SIX IN Al-Eacn
Department Active in Its Sphere-Al IN Touch with
The Central Executive Authority

any means represent the value VI tHfS
feature of the laboratory work. As
soon as the State began TO supply an
antitoxin, guaranteed by the United
State government as reliable, at prac-
tically one-fourth the original retail
price, the various manufactures OF
a%ntitoxin Immediately cut the retali
price Of their antitoxin to meet the
States competition, and 1t Is, there
fore, no longer necessary for a citizen
to buy State antitoXin to get a re-
liable and reasonably cheap anti
toxin.
Within the last year the labora-
tory has begun a new work-the pre-
paration and distribution Of free ty-
phoid vaccine. This icy work IS cap
able Of having a greater influence on
the States death rate than any other
phase of the laboratory work, with the
possible exception of water analysis.
h amount of vaccine distributed
during the asst seven months was
sufficient to immuniZe several thou
sand persons against typhoid fever.
The laboratory, as you all know, is
under the direction Of DR.. e. A.
Shore.
THE Bureau of Hookworm Eradica-
1 ton.
Nearly a year ago, DR.. John A. Fer
rell, one of the ableSt health officers
in this country. was called from the
Bureau Of Disease, which
he had founded, to very responsible
duties in the central offices of the
Rockefeller Sanitary Commission at
Washington. DR.. G. l.. Pridgen sue
ceeded DR.. Ferrall as State director
Of the work for the eradication of
hookworm disease. DR.. Pridgen re
signed in May Of this year to take up
private practice. and DR.. w. 2. ia
cocks, utility man Of the commission
Sc -
created by DR.. Pridgen's resignation.
The work of the Rockefeller commits
sion, as shown by the official report
of the commission, is indicated on the
chart.
A hookworm campaign has beer
l carried on in ninety eight %counties OF
the State, is being carried on in the
/ ~ninety-ninth, and has been provided
for in Ashe, the last county to vote
g funds for this work. Within a few
\ weeks, the entire State will have beer
. covered.
! Second campaigns have beer helt
S in seven counties. and the results o
e the second campaigns have fallel
q short of the expectations. A com
pariScn of the results of the first an
second campaigns in these seven coun
e ties show that during the first cam
paign. as compared with the secon
y campaign, the number OF people ex
e amined in the average county wa
Il 1865 as against sol, and the mum
. Der treated 1888 as against 249. Tn
cost of the treatment per case durin
n the second campaign was somethin
over 81. The commission is some
T. what at a loss to understand the all
n ing off of the work in the second can
k. paign as compared with the frs
u The following explanations have bee
suggested:
re (a) Indifference, due to loss of nov
city.
i tb) Unpleasant effect Of salts an
thymol.
s tc) Persistent skeptiCism.
he The diSa ppointing results Of the SCI
ond campaign, coupled with the hig
cost per case treatment. made it see1
ne advisable to look for a new methC
Mt of attack. The new method adopte
consists in selecting a community
from twenty to thirty square mile
I'd with a population Of from twelve
v fifteen hundred people, and attenp
In ing the complete adj ton Of hoOl
on worm disease for such
of through the administration Of thyrn
ar to all infected people and the constru
as ton of IS per cent grade prives at q
of homes.
Bureau of Education and Encineerin
mt This is the educational agency
as the board, and the bureau to viii,
'iA MS PIopltItlS are TGITTG
he The bureau is under the direction
Mr.. Warren H.. BOoker. It's wo
he during the past year has consisted
es. (a) Prep; ration. publication. al
distribution Of a forty thou
ne sand monthly edition of the bullet
&C. to h leading citizens Of the State.
ne, To On special request Of interest
10 citizens and officials, the distribute
of about one million pieces, panphl
'as or leaflets, of health literature.
1ry tc) OF mailing letters from Il
Governor of the State and also fro
r. the Board of Health, together with
Try pamphlet on the care Of the baby.
Go each mother whose babv'S birth
registered in the Bureau of Vital s
AIRS ~tiSticS.
IAN I'D Supplying the IA
the State with regular, non-technic
re- popuia weekly newspaper articles
health subjects.
IN tel living IA health exhibit in C
%nectiOn with a baby contest at +,
the State Fair, which, according to :,
eio newspaper reports of the Fair. "
the one or the principal features Of
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