1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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FIFTH BIE:NNIAL REPORT
OP THE
NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
1893=1894.
lu the two
years that have elapsed since our last re[)ort
the cause of public hygiene iii our State has been markedly ,
advanced. The interest in this most important subject,
both on the part of members of the medical profession and
of the people generally, shows a very decided increase.
While our work has been, and continues to be, largely
"missionary" in character—to carry to those ignorant of,
or indifferent to, its saving power the gospel of health
the Board has accomplished much positive good. We feel
that we can claim without hesitation that the saving of
many valuable lives and the prevention of a large amount
of sickness can be directly traced to its efforts. The provisions
of the law enacted by the last General Assembly
requiring physicians to report immediately to the proper
health officer cases of contagious and infectious disease and
making it obligatory upon said health officer to see that
such diseases "are properly quarantined and isolated within
twenty-four hours after the case is brought to his knowledge,
and that after the death or recovery or removal of a
person sick of either of the diseases mentioned the rooms
occupied and the articles used by the patient are thoroughly
disinfected in the manner set forth in the printed instructions,
both as to quarantine and disinfection, which shall
be furnished him by the Secretar}^ of the State Board of