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

1He;CarolinaJ systemJanuary, 1951 The Health Bulletin 9method of controlling the ravages oftyphoid fever and the terribly highdeath rate from colitis and similar diseasesamong infants, and in helping tocoimtermand the death warrant whichin those days hiing over a patient assoon as a diagnosis of tuberculosis wasmade, by joining the movement forearly diagnosis and rational treatment.Dr. Holmes died of tuberculosis eighteenmonths after the partnership was discontinued.Then Dr. Cooper quit privatepractice to devote his full time to preventivemedicine and public healthwork.As part time Coimty Physician ofSampson County from 1909 to 1913,with the aid of the Mayor and TownBoard, Dr. Cooper cleaned up the townof Clinton and used the first typhoidvaccine used by any physician in NorthCarolina as an experiment in mass controland prevention of typhoid feverby vaccination of the civil population.For twenty-one months following thiswork in 1911 and 1912, there was nota case of typhoid fever in that townfor the first time in its history.October 1, 1913 he became a full timehealth of&cer of Sampson County, beingabout the fifth such local health ofiBcerin North Carolina. During 1914, he conductedwith the aid of the InternationalHealth Board two experiments in communitysanitation, one at Salemburgand the other at Ingold. Notable andlasting results were achieved in both,which afforded guidance for subsequentwork elsewhere.was President of the SampsonCounty Medical Society in 1910, andPresident of the North Carolina PublicHealth Association in 1913 and 1914.He was appointed head of the Departmentof Rural Sanitation and a memberof the executive staff of the NorthState Board of Health andmoved to Raleigh and assumed theseduties May 1, 1915.In 1917, he was made head of theschool health work for the State Boardwith the title of State Medical Inspectorof Schools. In that position he plarmedand put into operation in 1918 theof dental work for all Statepublic school children and engaged andsupervised the first dentists for schoolhealth work. That year he was madean honorary member of the State DentalSociety, an honor continued to thisday and valued highly. Under the system,since gradually expanded, morethan three million school children havereceived free treatment, to make nomention of the most important aspectof the work, education. In 1919, he devisedand put into effect the systemof club operation for the removal ofdiseased tonsils and adenoids of schoolchildren, and supervised these clinicsfor most of the time until 1931. Operationswere performed on 23,211 childrenliving in every school district in 86 ofthe State's 100 counties, with the lowestmortality record in the history of suchwork in the United States. The educationaleffect of these two movementsfor better health for all children hasbeen incalculable.On March 1, 1923, he was appointedAssistant State Health OfiBcer and Editorof the Health Bulletin continuingas Editor until 1942. From September1, 1923, to September 1, 1924, during theyear's leave given Dr. W. S. Rankin,State Health OfiBcer, for work in NewYork, Dr. Cooper again became ActingState Health OfiBcer. Upon the returnof Dr. Rankin September 1, 1924, hewas continued as Assistant State HealthOfiBcer, Director of Health Education,until the resignation of Dr. RankinMay 30, 1925, when he was again madeActing State Health OfiBcer and servedin this capacity until the assumptionof ofiBce by Dr. C. O'H. LaughinghouseOctober 1, 1926. During Dr. Laughinghouse'sterm of ofBce until his deathAugust 26, 1930, Dr. Cooper was Directorof Health Education.Upon election of Dr. J. M. Parrott asState Health OfiBcer on July 1, 1931,he became Director of the Division ofPreventive Medicine in the reorganizedState Board of Health. This Divisioncomprised School Health Work, Maternaland Child Health Services, HealthEducation, editorial work. etc. Thiswork continued until the death of Dr.Parrott, November 7, 1934. He was Act-