The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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November, 1927
Children grow stronger on milk than
they do on coffee.
"Who was it that spread flu today
Not I.
Who opened up his mouth and sneezed
Not I.
Who spat upon the prone and passive
ground
The seeds of human pain In truth,
not I!
An epidemic, with its whirlwind sword,
Must first be loosed upon the passing
horde
By one who's wide of mouth and
blind of eye
And hard of heart!—How long, how
long, O Lord
Those who cough, sneeze and expectorate
without shielding their face are
responsible for infectious diseases.
NORMAL WEIGHT CHILDREN DO
HAVE TUBERCULOSIS BUT OH!
YOU UNDERWEIGHTS
In Dr. Hudson's paper printed elsewhere,
the percentages given show the
following facts
Normally nourished children do have
tuberculosis but only one case was
found out of 276 normal weight children
examined. There were twenty
times as many children who had tuberculosis
in the ten to fourteen per cent
underweights and the number increased
consistently until those 25 per cent and
over showed thirty-five times as many
cases of tuberculosis as the normal
group and this is only half as many
cases as found in the 25 per cent and
over underweights in the work of the
National Tuberculosis Association in
Cattaraugus County, New York.
The Health Bulletin
THE WOMEN'S CLUBS OF NORTH
CAROLINA are using their powerful
influence in the fight against tuberculosis.
The State Federation has a sub-department
of tuberculosis and Mrs.
Charles R. Whitaker of Southern Pines
is the efficient State Chairman. Each
and every local club has a chairman of
health and this chairman and her committee
study the subject and present
programs at stated intervals.
Among other visible concrete things
done by the local clubs through their
chairman and committee, is the sale of
tuberculosis Christmas seals, from
Thanksgiving to Christmas. They have
been quite successful with this, and
with the 75 per cent left in their hands
have done many worthwhile things.
The Raleigh Woman's Club has conducted
the annual seal sale from the
beginning. Among the many worthwhile
things they have done with the
money derived from the seal sale are
Establish the first tuberculosis clinic in
Raleigh. Establish public health nursing
in Raleigh, which was at the same
time the first public health nursing
ever done in North Carolina, and which
was the forerunner of the establishment
of public health nursing in the
State with a state director at its head
under and financed by the North Carolina
Tuberculosis Association. The
Raleigh Woman's Club is now financing
a large number of patients at the
State Sanatorium.
The Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Sale
the first year brought in $3,000.00; in
1926 it brought in more than five million
dollars.
The first flight to Europe was made
under prohibition.
BOW LEGS AND KNOCK-KNEES
There is no need for a child to be
bow-legged or knock-kneed. It is a
matter of faulty nutrition. Any good
doctor can give the parent proper directions
about this and the specialists in
the disease of children, who call themselves
Pediatrists, are especially keen
on this thing. Take your child to your
physician for examination every six
months.
The National Tuberculosis Association
is doing one of the finest pieces
of cooperative research ever known.
Thirteen university laboratories, the
United States Laboratory of Hygiene,
the laboratory of the United States Department
of Agriculture, and two commercial
laboratories are all working on
the tubercle bacillus in an effort to find
a cure for tuberculosis,—all financed by
the sale of Tuberculosis Christmas
Seals.