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

FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 83
little personal interest on the ])Ui-t of our [tliysicians living
within their gates is all that is necessar}'. We earnestly
hope they will help us in this res[)ect.
THE BULLETIN.
Being thoroughly convinced that the cause of preventive
medicine in the State could make no substantial
progress without at least the moral support if
not the positive
aid of the members of the profession, your Secretary
has used the monthly publication of the Board as a means
of communication with them. Acting under the belief
that a member of the Medical Society of the State was
ipso facto more or less alert and interested in his profession,
and wishing to reach that class particularly, the edition
the Bulletin was with the December number increased from
about 800 to nearly 1,200 copies and the name of every
member of the Society was put upon the mailing list. As
you are already aware an effort has been recently made to
obtain a reasonable number of subscribers at twenty-live
cents per annum in order to allow of its being mailed as
second class matter at an annual saving in postage of more
than a hundred and fortv dollars. But I reo;ret to sav
that the effort has met with very indifferent success, the
total number of subscribers enrolled to date being fiftythree.
The effort will, however, be continued until the
requisite number is obtained. When that is accomplished
it would probably be wise to still further extend its distribution.
MALARIA AND DRINKING WATER.
Believing that the malarial poison is| in many if not
most instances introduced into the system through the
drinking of surface water from shallow wells in the considerable
portion of our State in which this class of diseases
prevails, a movement was inaugurated in the last Bulletin
of