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

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In addition there will
be a Qnestion-Box, and members of the Board
will take pleasure in answering to the best of their ability any questions
bearing on hygiene.
You are cordially invited to come and bring your friends.
The meetings will l)e held at the Town Hall at 10 a. m.. 3 p. m. and
8 p. M.
Best hotel, $2 a day.
Special railroad rates applied for. Inquire of ticket agent.
For farther information, address Dr. John Whitehead, Salisburv, or
RICH'D H. LEWIS, ^I. D., Secretary,
The Board, in order to make the meeting as
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popular in character as
possible, desired to have some prominent citizen preside, but we could
not induce one to assume the responsibility. So the tirst or morning session
was called to order by Dr. H. T. Bahnson, President of the Board
of Health. The members of the Board and visiting citizens were cordially
welcomed in appropriate words by the Eev. Dr. Murdoch, who, we
think, if such an expression can with propriety be applied to one of his
cloth, deserves the title " the near wheel-horse of the town of Salisbury,"
so active and succe.^sful has he been in advancing the interests of that
goodly burg materially as well as spiritually. At the request of the
President the Secretary explained the object of the meeting, essentially
as set forth in the programme above.
The business proper of the session was begun by the reading of a paper
entitled "The Prevention of Tuberculosis as We Know It To-Day," by
Dr. S. Westray Battle, of Asheville. The idea that consumption was
catching and that the disease could be prevented was a novel one to
most of the audience, and this admirable paper, with vei'bal amplifications
and explanations, was heard with much interest and elicited many
inquiries after it was finished. It was the first gun in the campaign
against tuberculosis by the Board. It was ordered to be published in
pamphlet form for general distribution.
Following this was an excellent paper by Dr. George Gillett Thomas,
of Wilmington, on the most important of all sanitary subjects, the very
key-stone of preventive medicine: "Quarantine and Disinfection in
Contagious Diseases." The questions elicited by Dr. Thomas's paper
having been answei-ed, the meeting, after a three hours' session, adjourned
for dinner.
At the afternoon session a paper by the Secretary on "Drinking Water
in Relation to ^lalarial Diseases," and one very instructive one on
"Household Water Supply," sent by Mr. J. C. Chase, who was unavoidably
absent, were read and discussed.
At night Dr. Albert R. Wilson, of Greensboro, County Superintendent
of Guilford, read a very interesting and instructive communication on the