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

174 THE HEALTH BULLETIN."I want to congratulate you on thevery valuable and practical bulletinwhich you have recently issued and"Which contains an article on the fulltimecounty health oflBcer. You arestriking at the very heart of our administrativproblem, I think."Dr. Chas. 8. Prest, of the StateCharities Aid Association of NewYork, says in a recent letter:"The marked copy of the recentlyamended health laws of North Carolinaand the pamphlets giving argumentfor the employment of thewhole time county health officer areat hand, and I thank you for them. Iam particularly interested in thewhole time county health officer, forNew York State is about to inauguratethe employment of district health officerswhich were intended to bewhole-time men * * * i wouldappreciate it if you would send meone-half dozen copies each of thepamphlets on the whole time countyhealth officer, as well as an additionalcopy of your Compilation of PublicHealth Laws. I wish to transmit thecopies of the pamphlets to the membersof the State Board of HealthCouncil."Dr. Dinsmore. of the AlabamaState Board of Health, tvrites:"Dr. Sa^c'ers is busy in the fieldand has asked me to write a letter forhim seeking certc'.in informationabout the whole time county healthofficer. North Carolina seems to beleading the other states in this matterand I feel that you are in a positionto give us valuable information.We are making a si ecial effort justnow to secure whole time countyhealth officers in two counties in ourState, and the prospects for doing soare very good."FACTS ABOUT GOLDSColds are the commonest malady wehave. Everybody should know the AB C's about colds. Here they are, putin practical form by an authority onthesubject:"1. Colds are shown to be contagiousand, therefore, caused by germsby the simple fact that they are 'catching';one can take cold from anotherperson who has a cold."2. Severe colds always begin witha sensation of chilliness, followed bymore or less of a fever—chills andfever. That is the identical mannerin which practically every infectiousdisease caused by microbes begins itscareer."3. Like all germ-caused diseases,colds have a tendency to run a moreor less definite course. They are selflimited;that is, after a certain timethey usually begin to recover of themselves.In this way a cold behaves exactlyas do measles, chicken pox, scarletfever, pneumonia, etc."4. Like other infectious diseases,colds may be followed by inflammationsin various internal organs, producinga congestion of the stomach,lungs, liver, spleen, or kidneys. Thesesecondary results are due to the irritatingeffects of the poisons (toxins)of the germs circulating in the bloodstream of the patient. These symptomsof secondary poisoning followin the wake of colds and influenza,ju£t as they follow attacks of diphtheriaand scarlet fever."5. Colds are shown to be infectiousby the fact that they are usually,sometimes highly, contagious; whenwe have a severe cold, we can give itto others, to those individuals whoare susceptible."6. Colds, like other contagious maladies, can be prevented, controlled,