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

December, 19^ The Health Bulletin 13
SMALLPOX MORE PREVALENT THIS YEAR
The United States Public Health
Service recently stated that in a number
of the states of the North extending
across the country to the Pacific
Coast that smallpox was much more
j)revalent than at the same season last
year.
It seems foolish to have to continually
call attention to the presence of
smallpox, brcause it is one disease that
is perhaps more easily prevented than
any other extremely contagious disease.
For more than a hundi-ed years
vaccination has proved its efficacy under
every conceivable circumstance.
Vaccination is easy to procure. Any
doctor is ready at any time to vaccinate
a person carefully and successfully.
Less than five minutes time is
required, and with proper care and attention
to the arm after vaccination no
harm is ever likely to arise to the individual
that is newly vaccinated.
Vaccination for babies and young
children should be as universally practiced
as naming the babies. Amon^
civilized people there is in this day and
time no excuse for a person having
smallpox, or for the presence of the
disease in any community. The reason
it is still prevalent and still spreads
from state to state and city to city is
a tribute to the power of prejudice
and ignorance in the face of a better
knowledge on the part of everybody.
A BULLETIN ARTICLE BRINGS ONE MAN A TEN
THOUSAND DOLLAR JOB
The following headline appeared in
the Raleigh Xeics and Observer of Sunday,
December 4, 1927 : "STATE COL-
LEGE PROFESSOR ACCEPTS $10,000
YEAR JOB." The subheading of the
article was as follows : "Dr. Frank
Rice Becomes Executive Secretary of
Evaporated Milk Association."
The paper, in describing the new
work of Dr. Rice and something of his
record here, had the following interesting
item : to wit,
"It was an article of his published
in 'The Health Bulletin,' a publication
of the North Carolina State Board
of Health, on 'Condensed and Evaporated
Milk, that brought him to the attention
of the evaporated milk people.
The article appeared in January, 1926."'
There are two or three reasons at
least why we are calling attention to
this item. In the first place the State
Board of Health has tried for many
years to make the Health Bulletin a
serious publication carrying editorial
matter and special articles of timely
significance and of importance to all
the people. An earnest effort has always
been made to make the Bulletin
a distinctive publication in that it shall
always carry matter of technical and
scientific value, in short, information,
if you please, to all classes of people.
To achieve such a result it is necessary
to procure articles by men and women
who are masters in their special fields,
who will write articles of distinctive
value. We have always tried to refrain
from filling its pages with rehash
stuff, old, out-of-date material, or with
matter available elsewhere.
This is not the first record of a favorable
connection being made by authors
of articles appearing in this Bulletin.
Therefore we should like for people of
special ability who are able to write
entertainingly, interestingly, and informatively
on any health subject to
submit articles to us for publication.
We cannot promise to procure a ten
thousand dollar a year job for all of
these, but we can promise to cheerfully
send the manuscript bacTi to the author,
postage prepaid, when such articles submitted
are not available for the Bulletin
; and we also promise to publish
such articles as in our judgment will
help make the Bulletin what it ought
to be.
Another reason we have for publishing
this item is to illustrate that many
responsible people the world over are
numbered among the careful readers of
The Bulletin. We have interested
subscribers from British India to the
African Congo. The Bulletin goes by
request to practically every important
country in the world, as well as to