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

;
FIFTH ElKNNIAl. REPORT. 137
can be immediately made safe against it. Our cities and
larger towus will no doubt avail themselves of the kind
offer made, and iiuother advance in the cure and prevention
of one of the most justly dreaded diseases will bo recorded
in our State.
THE MONTHLY BULLETIN.
This publication of the Board, besides being a
monthly
record of the health of the people of the State and the condition
of the jails and county homes, is a medium of communication
with those whose active interest in sanitation
it is most important to secure. It is sent as second-class
matter, at a monthly cost in postage of aljout sixty-five
cents for 1,250 copies, to health organizations, public libraries,
etc.. throughout the country, and in this State to all
members of the North Carolina Medical Society and all
other physicians who wish it; to the health officers and
Mayors of cities and towns; the chairman of every Board
of County Commissioners, and to every one who takes
sufficient interest in sanitary matters to ask for it.
As the physicians, owing to the nature of their calling,
come more closely in contact with the people in the work
we have in hand and can do more than any others in
impressing upon them the importance of observing the
laws of hygiene, its editorial columns have been utilized
particularly to secure their active co-operation in our work.
The following editorials selected from the files of the past
two years will
this
direction
give an idea of what we liave tried to do in
IX RELATION TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Two weeks ago a copy of the new Act Relating to the Board of Health,
ratified ^Nlarch 1, 1803, together with a copy of Instructions for Quarantine
and Disinfection, prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of