The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-20
Public Health Work In n. C..
Shows Expansion In Projects

Raleigh, N. C.. - North Caro-
lima today is spending So, $4,000
ON public health, as compared
with $6O4,312 in 1884, DR.. Carl V.
Reynolds, State Health Officer,
told the conjoint session of the
State Board of Health and the
State Medical Society. eve have
~SSRS workers in our happy, con-
tented and enthusiastic family,
ali of whom have had special
training in their respective
Fields he continued, referring to
98he entire personnel set-up at the
Estate Board and in the local
-snssih.h units.
Iar, Reynolds outlined the work
Sof public health in its various
undertakings during the past
year, including that of new pro-
~Jects. He gave an account OF
what has been accomplished in
'$sae various divisions. The eff
8ectiveness of maternal and in
fancy clinics, he pointed out, IS
shown by the fact that the ma
Hernal and infant death rates for
1912 reached the lowest points in
1ahe history of North Carolina, the
nma4ernal rate dropping from Al
to 81 during the year and the
Infant rate from 59.4 to 46.8.
More than 95 per cent of North
E.arolina's s3,571,00 people now
are enjoying full time organized
health protection, DR.. Reynolds
reported.
Reporting On the progress of
the fight onevenerea1 diseases, he
SaHss
There are now a total of 3O9
Venereal disease clinics, with Ala
clinic sessions held weekly with
clinic services available to 95 per
cent of the States population.
The Division of Epidemiology
distributed drugs to the amount
Sof SIS sos to the private practi-
TONERS of medicine in North Car
DINA, without charge. We re-
ceived reports of 1851 new I'M
treated cases of syphilis during
THE year. Private physicians,
Hospitals and other institutions
reported 1885 new untreated sy-
fphiis cases. During this period
: All average of 24,606 patients per
north attended public health
clinics for treatment or clinical
arc Fer syphilis We administered
822,769 treatments. There were
only 1917 new untreated cases of
gonorrhea and chancroid report
ed Private physicians, hospitals
and other institutions reported
4,141 new untreated cases Of gon-
<or1t=as"
Reporting on malaria control
work. DR.. Reynolds said:
due to the war emergency,
the malaria investigation and con-
s*rol unit has changed some of its
policies, concentrating in it's
blood slide surveys within the
areas around military camps.
During the year, total of 23,942
malaria blood slides was taken in
Is counties. In cooperation with
ehe u S. Public Health Service,
Tire war areas malaria program
nGaN has $50 people employed"
Telling of the work of the ex-
kREnied State Laboratory of Hy-
-gipne, DR.. Reynolds reported:
During 1912 a total of 692,231
examinations were made on spe-
cnnents sent to the laboratory, as
compared with 575,312 the previ
GUS year. Sociological tests for
:syphilis still comprise the princi-
pal load of the laboratory so far
as specimens are concerned. In
1912 there were 6l3,251 such
tests, compared with 485,24 in
194l, Last year there were 216,-
O66 tests made for the Selectlve
Service System, and in l94l there
were 57,755 from this source.
1.-The demands upon the labora
tory for typhoid vaccine increas-
ed markedly during 1912. when
1871 ,l64cc were distributed, COM
pared to 629,767 &C in 1941."
DR.. Reynolds told of the in
creased load on the Division of
Vital Statistics due to the war
and the increasing birth rate.
~"The death rate from all caus-
Is in 1912 was the lowest on rec
ord, having been only 81 per l.
$50 population. There were co.
956 births recorded, births out
wandered the 1858 deaths in
State by 70,443. In addition to
'xhe regular birth certificates,
4l1ere were more than $500 de-
layed birth certificates issued
during the year."
Fifty wears before the Aneri-