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

136 THE HEALTH BULLETIN.tor can administer the vaccine. Thevaccine is in three doses, which haveto be given on three separate days, fivedaj^s apart. In from ten to fifteen percent of the cases there is slight swellingand redness, and a little pain aboutthe Injection lasting for a day or so;associated with these local symptomsis usually a slight feeling of indisposition,vague, dull aches similar to thepreliminary symptoms of a cold, and,maybe, from a half to a degree of fever.The second injection is not nearly solikely to be followed with these sensationsas the first, and the third injectionstill less likely than the secondto be associated with unpleasant sensations.The protective power of typhoidvaccine lasts for four years. The protectivepower not only protects againstthe contraction of the disease but, inthose exceptional cases where the diseaseis contracted, protects to a considerableextent against a fatal outcome,a kind of double protection.The State Board of Health entertainsthe hope that those counties employingwhole time health officers willhave their officer arrange certaindates in the county, town or other convenientplaces for citizens to visit,where any citizen in the county canbe vaccinated, without cost, either fortyphoid fever or for smallpox. If thehealth of the human animals of thecounties are worth anything from apurely economical standpoint in theproduction of cotton and corn andwheat and meat, thereby increasingthe value of land, and by all this addingto the wealth of the county treasurythrough the taxes that are levied,it would seem to be a very fine pieceof business for the owners of this productivesource of wealth, for the countygovernment, particularly the countycommissioners, to spend the small sumnecessary for this free public vaccinationin the maintenance of their humanmachinery.MENTAL HYGIENE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBIT COMINGA great treat is in store for NorthCarolina teachers and others interestedin Mental Hygiene and the bettermentof the race. Through the initiative,generosity, energy, and forethoughtof Dr. Albert Anderson, Superintendentof the State Hospital at Raleigh,arrangements have been made tohave a Mental Hygiene exhibit andconference at the Raleigh Auditoriumfrom November 28 to December 5th.This is the same exhibit which attractedso much attention at the InternationalCongress on Hygiene and Demographyat Washington last year.The exhibit is free and the public iscordially invited. Demonstrators andattendants will be on hand to expL-iineverything connected with it. It willundoubtedly be one of the best exhibitsever given in North Carolina. It willmean a tremendous uplift all over theState if several thousands of our teachersand public spirited citizens willlearn the great lesson taught by thisexhibit.Besides the exhibit, there will beheld North Carolina's first conferenceon Mental Hygiene. A program is beingarranged for two sessions daily,afternoon and evening. Some of theforemost specialists in the country willlecture on various phases of mentalhealth. Among others will be Dr.Adolph Meyers, of Johns Hopkins University;Dr. Wm. A. White, of Washington,D. C; Dr. James Parrott, ofKinston, President of North CarolinaMedical Society, and many others ofequal calibre. The daily press will »make full announcement of the program later.