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SI Thursday, Feb. 1st, 1940 PAGE TWO UFO ST NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C. Dr. Reynolds Says Healths Gams Made Oh Many Fronts In N. Carolina During 1939 State's Vital Statistics Figures Indicate A Better Trend DR. REYNOLDS SAYS Hy CARL V. REYNOLDS, M. D. State Health Officer Raleigh, Jan. 30. Last year witnessed gains on several impor tant front in the battle against disease in North Carolina. Information that is both inter esting and encouraging is found in the 1939 provisional report of the !-t : te Board of Health's Division t,t Vital Statistics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimpson is the Director. On t.;e other hand, certain weaknesses li'.to are revealed. Any report th.it simply gives figures, uninter u:cted, carries little weight and is soon forgotten. We must bear in mind that a year's compilation is merely factu al;, that it can, at best, leflect only a "trend," encouraging or discour aging as the ease may be. lo get the true picture, we must follow the "trend" through a series of years. Vital statistics figure in North Carolina for last year, which have just been compiled, do, in some in stances, reflect a very decided and encouraging "trend". The 80, 421 births reported during the year outnumbered the 31,928 deaths that occurred during the same pe riod by 48,493, and there were 1, "3ft fewer deaths than were re ported the previous year, bringing the rate down from 9.5 to 9.0 frou 1938 to 1939. If the 1938 rata had remained unchanged in 1939, the total number of deaths would have been 33,839, instead of 31, 92S, which means that, on this ba sis, the number of lives saved was, in reality, 1,911 instead of 1,030. Please bear in mind and recall in ; jur future reading that an in crease or reduction of one point ti presents the saving or loss of 3, .'.''J lives within a year. Pneumonia Drirbt:r Picture Pneumonia has continued throu- h the years to be one of trw greatest scourages that has har- i.sed humanity. Men and vvo n:cn, physicians and the laity, hav bo-.od helplessly before its ino : uru'.;le law of death. But a new day appears to be at hand in th? battle against this arch-enemy. While a single year's figures cannot be taken as final as they apply to pneumonia any more than in their application to any other disease, yet we have here a very striking example of encouraging ' "trend." : In North Carolina last year we saved the lives of 537 more pneu-! monia patients from untimely ' graves than we (lid the previous j year the total number of deaths j from this cause in 1939 having; h.-en 2,172 as compared wih 2,700 , in 1938, the rate dropping from ! 70.8 to 61.0. ! To emphasize the downwarl "trend" in deaths f.om pneumonia in North Carolina, it is pointed out !h;.t there was also a decline from 1937 to 193S. when the number di pped from 2,915 to 2,709, and '.he rate from 84.3 to 76.8 In ther words, the rate dropped 2.33 : oints n two years and the num ' er of pneumonia deaths 773. We feel that this saving of life has been due to two major causes: The ea:iy typing of the disease for lhe administration of pneumonia trum and . u'u'-p., . Mine, which has shown . -sults nothing short of marvelous. Technicians for typing pneuim - ,ii.i may now be ."ovid at strategic os.in.s Lhi ju ;houl uh Slate, du . the coui-es m t. aini.ij? which j . r, end discussing ways and b-.-an at Duke I'niversity in Jan- j in-fain fin- its elimination. Here nary, 1"3S, through the coopera-1 we h.iw both an agricultural an 1 I'rn of the Me.die.d School of that ' ht ali h problem, and I am glad to institution and th North Caroli-1 rrnU- M'.re is a serious effort bo na State Loard of Health, stim'i-i ui" ni:tde to eradicate Bung's dis ced by the active support of the ease :nd, thereby, lessen the North Carolina Commission on ; neumoma Control, or wmcn Dr. Hubert B. Haywood, of Raleigh, also a member of the State Board or Health, is chairman. There to the importance of inoculating each year presents a distinct chal v. ere 67 technicians trained dur-! these animals against infections ' lenge. While many of these do ig the first course at Duke, in ad- abortion as a further aid in the I not fall into the category of public tlition to those who had previously j prevention of the spread of the un- health problems, strictly speaking, qualified and pioneered in this 'lulant fever scourge. they have a very decided bearing great work in our State. I There is at least one State in the j on public safety. We hear a lot I wish to emphasize here the val- j Union where undulant fever is as I about "safety", but, alas, like th.2 Ue of Dr. Haywood's interest in this matter, as he devoted much time to laying the groundwork for what has proved to be such a suc cessful undertaking. While the use of sulfapyridina has wrought revolutionary changes in the pneumonia situation and has hi ought hope to the victims of a uibte which, as late as 1937, took a toll of 110,000 lives in the United States, the importancs of early diagnosis remains paramount Keither syrum nor sulfapyridine tan be expected to overcome the serious handicap that delay brings. I cannot leave this subject with tnt. sounding a warning against tifcgltcting what so many peopio erroncously term the "common cold" or a "touch of flu". Every "common cold" or "touch of flu" should be treated until it proves itself otherwise, and we should constantly bear in mind that the "common cold'' and "touch of flu" furnish a fertile field for the com plication pneumonia, which re mains a serious menace t olife and health. Saving Babies. Mothers One of the most gratifying fea tures of the 1939 report lies in the fact that it reflects a "trend" which has now become very defi nite in North Carolina a sharps reduction in both infant and ma ternal mortality. Last year the lives of 757 babies under a year old were saved, the total number of deaths in this group having been 4,704, as com pared with 5,461 in 1938. Dur ing a single year North Carolina's infant mortality rate dropped from 08.3 to 58.5 per 1,000 live birth). The United States as a whole had an infant mortality rate of 54.1 in 1937, the last year for which figures are available, and it is in teresting to note that the white infant death rate for the entire country that year was 50 and the Nvgro rate 82. The white rate for North Carolina was 50, the Negro rate 85 and the total rate 64.9 The average Negro population in the United States is ten jer cent, as compared with 29 per cent in North Carolina, This gives added importance to our local figures. Maternal deaths per 1,000 live births in North Carolina dropped from 450 in 1938 to 383 in 1939, bringing the rate down from 5.6 to 1.8 in a single year. In 1935 the maternal death rate in North Car olina was 7.0. So, there was a drop cif 2.2 points in four year.. Thu United States rate in 1937 was 1.9 This means we are making progress. Stated in simple terms, North Carolina last year saved 07 mothr had 518 more live births Li;an during the preceding year. i he:;e figures are encouraging to public health worker because they snow Unt beneficial results have accrued from the woik that is bo i.ie; d. ip'.1 in infant and maternal elkics ;t J f'om the other efforts t.hr.t are hoinjr exerted to save tha i: bite's r.o'.l'er and hi-bics. I ast yar saw the saving of 357 lives ni i.i-.i'rircn under 2 years of age in North Cuiolimi from diahr ihea and enteritis, the rate falling from 21 to i8.it bttv.een 1938 aid !'.i:t. P.-erentable Dheae No , 1-t's tukc a look at another !, ! i':-' vital .s.aiisucs pic- tuiv it. X.-! Carolina, a. ainicl , f;.. ,, . We uillco u sld.-r ' IV of tV preventable d's- ' c.v-c-s and see '.vh-.t ',ve have done n this field. Typhoid deaths in 1938 i:umH?rei 72, or a rate of 2.0 as compared with 10 and a rate of 13 in 1939. This reflected an aetu U saving, not considering the increa ed population, of 20 lives. Ty phoid is a preventable disease an ' we h.u't- goi -e a long way tov.aii its elimination, but trio means o. combating it have only to be abac-1 ed, even temporarily, for it 1o flare up and become the menace it f'ni:Tiy was. 1 want to call particular atten t n to deaths from unduiunt fever. wer" 0 he-'t " c'-m;mr d , i :i r.'te of (Mm!. I read with in;..' i", wiih a rate i-h ..' in 193K, (;nly recent i.'s'. a newspa- .V. vti.-i Suit.- that had its origin with Department of Agrii'iil- rVli;- attention lo pro!)-1 i liseaso ; 1 pres ..'.' e bv lii.irj -or in :'e.':iou i aboition i i euttl , hii'h is a cotuve of 1 1 i inl.mt fe- "trend" toward a greater incidence ot umlutant tever. in tms con necti;"' I wish to call particular at tention of hog and goal breeder. itroat a hazard as typhoid. The Diptheria "OUgrace" Iipthcria, in spite of the fact that it is ureventable, continues to take its toll among our young. There were 173 deaths from thn disease in 1930, with a rate of 1.0, as compared with 170 deaths and a rate of 5.0 in 1938, the decrease in both the number of cases and thy rate having been negligible. It i ; nothing short of a disgrace that should have so many deaths from this disease. Urgent appeals havo gone forward for the enforcement of the law which provides that all babies shall be immunized against this disease between the ages of 6 mouths and 12 months and which THE STUDY MONTH On The Farm and in The Home fcsch leitfthy February night, lolivar and his family lathered around the cheerful lifbl. II Jut as busy as bee, nd la all practical respects. iey sure Improved their Intellects. Plan and Plant Wisely Present conditions mark 1940 i'.s a year of uncertainty for North Carolina farmers. Because of this situation, State College spec ialists are urging growers to plan and plant wisely. During February, the Tar Heel crop grower will find it to his ad vantage to follow these eight rules as laid down by C. B. Williams, veteran State College agronomist: 1. Select those fields on the farm, insofar as possible, for thy growth of major crops that have soils and natures best suited t3 the growth of each of the ciops. 2. Decide upon the best quanti ties and analyses of fertilizers that should be used for each crop for the greatest per acre returns. I!. Do not use fertilizers whics fail to meet the lequirements for your ci ops grown on your particu lar soils. 4. Do not let someone talk you into using mixtures you are not sure will best meet your conditions and needs. 5. Use improved seed best suited to your locality and condi tions. ti. Handle your land so that it will be a little more productive aeh succeeding year. 7. As far us possible, arrange our major crops in rotations, with ut least one suitable legume in each rotation to be plowed un der for soil-improving purposes. 8. Break your land early and phnt promptly on a good mellow seed bed after the season opens. iKiayed planting frequently leads to decreased yields. Livestock Now, jumping from crops to livestock farming, here are a fert suggestions from Dr. John E. Fos- provides that no child shall be ad mitted to any public, private oi ;ii I'c'uial school who has not been liiiiunized. The results of this law Bhould have been apparent before now, as t was ratified last March. While -here may be no evidence of en forcement up to the present time, ;.is law must be complied with. We are proud of the continuous progress we have made in our war on tuberculosis in all forms. Last 'ea'' tm"e were in North Carolina 1,057 deaths from pulmonary tu beiculosis, with a rate of 40.5, a:-' oiupared with 1,908 deaths and a uite of 48.1 in 1938 a decrease of 41 deaths and 1.6 in the rate. Other forms of tuberculosis claim ed 149 victims, as compared with 1 55 thj previous year, a drop of 0, while the rate fell from 4.4 to 4.2. When I sum up the gains thn' ! uve been mad in our fight a- inst typhoid fever, infant an I utern.il niortaliiy, pneumonia, tu-1 .. i- .i! i.-is and other diseases which j vt iu:i either prevent or success-! a.lly ;..'iit r.nd note the cumpara-! tively slow progress that has been I made against diptheria, a prevent- j . hie (li-euse beyond question, I fe-! like crjiiig out: "Mothers, be .vaie'1! or, perhaps, ''Forgive thrni ;' r they know not what they do ii. ,-. ..cticirg such neglect!" A Challenge The number of people who die ' iolent deaths in North Carolind w eather, there sometimes seems to be little we can do about it. In many cases, these violent deaths are preventable. Think it over. Last year there were in Nortu Carolina 1,494 deaths from what are styled "preventable accidents,'" as compared with 1,444 the prece ding year, a gain of 50. These in cluded: Automobile accidents, primary, as reported to the State IJoaid of Health, 899; automobil and railroad collissions, 28; othtr i ail road accidents, 93; air trans portation accidents, 7; accidental drownings, 154; conflagration and accidental burns, 24?; accidental traumatism by firearms, 67. There yas a marked increase, in cjrowr- Fur knowing what there is to do Is just to make a proper start; Before a Job is carried through, Some other questions play a part Jlow, when, where, why lu do lh thins (.'nils for a heap of studying Iter, associate in animal husbandry (investigations for the Experiment Station at State College: i Brood sows that are to farrow i in Febraurv should be provided with plenty of minerals and vita mins. If winter pasture is not available, furnish Vitamin A b..' feeding yellow corn or small amounts of bright green leafy le gume hay. Have your ewes in a strong, thrifty condition before lambing. If some are poor and run down separate them from the remainder of the flock and give them extra feed and care. Save out some good quality hay for the weaned baby calves and nursing cows. The lower quality roughage can be fed to the older cattle and dry cows. Don't neglect the weaned colts. Keep them growing all winter by providing sufficient good quality hay and concentrates. Poultry For the poultryman, Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the State Col lege Poultry Department, offers these suggestions: Start chicks from blood-tested parents. Blood-testing, if careful ly done, reduces the chances o'' pulloruin disease to a minim urn. Never start over two chicks to the square foot in the brood.'i house. Fiovide two half-gallon drinking founts and i.vo mash hop pers 4 inches high by 0 inches wide .'.nil 5 feet long with reel for each 100 chicks started. Overheating kills more chicks each year than chilling. Be sure to provide adequate ventilation of (he brooder house without direct drafts. Provide a good chick starting vash and maintain rigid sanita 'ion. ir.gs, 50 more having been reported than occurred in 1938, the majori ty occurring, of course, in the sum n er months during the extremely hot weather. There was a decrease of 57 in the number of suicides and an in crearo of 3 homicides. In presenting these figures, I have undertaken to do more than to piesent so many "statistics;" 1 have tried to give the people something to think about and hope bat I have succeeded. IISSVAUGHAN'S! COLUMN 5 HOME ECONOMICS The past week has been spent re viewing all material studied in Home Economics from September until January. wiuiimswon: completed fUh grade girls hnve begun to study child care and development. As one of the first topics they have chosen Child Behavior. Some of the girls have small brotheis or sisteis in the home whom they can observe in connection with Child Behavior. From this study the girls expect to find out how i can best discharge our responsibili ties to small children. The time has passed when children "Jus Grow" as in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Every pha.se of their growth and develop ment should be guided for those who have studied child care and training. Often boys and girls in the home as well as parents have a chance to help guide this develop ment of the child. Therefore each person should know something of the child's reactions to certain sit uations and why they have such re actions. There are many other phases to study as well as behavior. For ex ample. Foods for all ages up to twelve years of age, the correc; type of entertainment, clothing for the infant, small child and school child. SUBSCRIBE TQ 1HB BEAU FORT NEWS. ..ULE3 AND REGULATIONS PARSED AT THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF CONSER VATION AND DEVELOP MENT, DIVISION OF COM MERCIAL FISHERIES AT RALEIGH, N. C. January ISth, and 17th, 1940 9. (Amended) It shall be uii awf ul for any person, firm or cor poration to take, buy, sell, offer or sale, have in his of their posses ion, or unnecessarily destroy, anywhere in the State of North arolina, any lrsh ot less size man he leneth specified for the sever al kinds of fish or for any express ompany, railroad company or any ommon carrier to accept them f- r shipment. Sturgeon, Moose or pegging awi j feet. iock Fish or striped bass 12 inches Mackerel ...12 Iickory Shad 12 iJrov Trout 9 Spec kl id Trout 11 Blue Fish 10 " Sheepshead 9 " Sea Mullet or king fish. .10 Red Drum 12 " Flounders 9 Mullets 8 " Ring Perch 7 Croakers 8 Pompano . 8 " Spots 7 Hog Fish 8 White Perch 7 Measurements are .o be from the tip of the nose to the fori; of the tail, except flounders and croakers which are measured from the tip of the nose to the inner edge of the tail; Provided, that this provision shall not be construed to prevent catches of smaller fish with hook and line for sport or personal use. 143. (Amended) It shall be unlawful to set pound nets outside of the following boundaries: Be ginning at the southeast corner of what is known as the ten mile lim it and running south half west to a point off Little Kinnakeet on the twelve foot curve nine and three quarter miles from the beginning; thence southwest by south six and a half miles to a point on the twelve foot curve off north Point Girl's' Hi-Y. The Beaufort. girl Hi-Y club had it:-; weekly meeting Mon lay niirht, seven o'clock at the home of Doro thy Eure. The members and officers this year are Mary Johnson, president; Marie Davis, Secretary, Roberta Shaw, treasurer; Sue Murray Thomas, vice president; Jess Pa gels, program chairman; Verona Daniels reporter; Lillian Dudley, corresponding secretary; Rita Da vis; Rita Davis, Marjorio Skinner, Dot Eure, Colleen Guthrie, and Florence Skarren. The Leader is Miss Eleanor Jones. 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It shall be unlawful for any peison or persons, firm or corporation to take drum or chan nel bass with nets that weigh over twenty pounds in New Hanover County, or to take any drum or channel bass in any of the inlets in New Hanover County. 158. It shall be unlawful to fish for or take shad in the Cnpe Fear River between the Old Mossy Tree and Kings Bluff Locks. SHELLFISH RULES 23. 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