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1895.1 Document No. 20. 63
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
By Richard H. Lewis, M. D., Raleigh, N. C.
When your Secretary made his last annual report the
sanitary sky to the eastward was overcast with the dark
and lurid clouds of cholera. There was in the minds of
people at large to some extent, but more especially of those
whose duty it was to stand as sentries upon the watch-towers,
a feeling of apprehension lest these threatening
clouds should reach our shores and deluge us with the
dreaded pestilence.
Later yellow fever appeared at Brunswick, Ga., almost
at our doors, and our health officers on our seaboard,
particularly at our port of Wilmington, had their anxieties
greatly increased. Still later small-pox began to spread
over the country and is not yet, we regret to admit,
stamped out.
Notwithstanding these valid grounds for uneasiness our
fears have not been realized. We have to felicitate our-selves
and the people of our State and generally of our
whole country upon their escape. And in doing so we
should make our acknowledgments to the United States
Marine Hospital Service for its excellent management in
keeping cholera (except one case at Jersey City) out of our
country and in practically bottling up the yellow fever at
and near Brunswick.
In making this report your Secretary does not consider
it necessary to read all the data bearing upon what' lias
been done, but will be more general in his method and
refer those interested to the archives of the Board where
thev can be found and consulted.
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| Full Text | 1895.1 Document No. 20. 63 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH. By Richard H. Lewis, M. D., Raleigh, N. C. When your Secretary made his last annual report the sanitary sky to the eastward was overcast with the dark and lurid clouds of cholera. There was in the minds of people at large to some extent, but more especially of those whose duty it was to stand as sentries upon the watch-towers, a feeling of apprehension lest these threatening clouds should reach our shores and deluge us with the dreaded pestilence. Later yellow fever appeared at Brunswick, Ga., almost at our doors, and our health officers on our seaboard, particularly at our port of Wilmington, had their anxieties greatly increased. Still later small-pox began to spread over the country and is not yet, we regret to admit, stamped out. Notwithstanding these valid grounds for uneasiness our fears have not been realized. We have to felicitate our-selves and the people of our State and generally of our whole country upon their escape. And in doing so we should make our acknowledgments to the United States Marine Hospital Service for its excellent management in keeping cholera (except one case at Jersey City) out of our country and in practically bottling up the yellow fever at and near Brunswick. In making this report your Secretary does not consider it necessary to read all the data bearing upon what' lias been done, but will be more general in his method and refer those interested to the archives of the Board where thev can be found and consulted. |
