The Health Bulletin, Vol. 57

Download or read book The Health Bulletin, Vol. 57 written by North Carolina State Board of Health and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 57: January, 1942 After nineteen years of continuous service as editor of The Health Bulletin, Dr. G. M. Cooper has been granted a leave of absence for an indeterminate period. This is the cause of genuine regret to the staff of the State Board of Health and to the readers of the 60,000 copies of the Bulletin that are distributed each month. The increase in activities of the Division of Health Education, Crippled Children's Work, and Maternal and Child Health Service, directed by Dr. Cooper, together with the difficulty in securing medical personnel to assist him in carrying out the program of his Division combined in influencing him to wish a respite. Consequently, he is being given a breathing spell which all his friends hope will result in his again becoming editor within a short period. During these nineteen years Dr. Cooper has actually written more than 1,200,000 words for The Health Bulletin. This is more than 1,825 pages, the equivalent of some live conventionally sized novels. But Dr. Cooper's writing was not fiction - it was hardheaded advice on the way to health. The variety of subjects which he has discussed, if indexed, would be a complete list of public health problems which have arisen during the past two decades. In these writings there was no evasion nor sidestepping. If public well-being was endangered, the rights of the little man were just as important as were those who by general acceptance occupied high positions in our social order. He was not a cantankerous editor, looking for a quarrel, but neither did he dodge the responsibility of speaking out against a quack or charlatan. In 1923 when Dr. Cooper became editor of The Health Bulletin it had the high traditions established by its founders, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood and Dr. Richard H. Lewis. Volume I. Number 1, appeared in April, 1886. It was edited by Dr. Wood, who from his office in Wilmington, served as Secretary of the State Board of Health and editor until his death in 1892. He was truly an evangelistic spirit with unlimited effort from the early seventies until the end. The torch which he lighted then passed to the equally unselfish and able hands of Dr. Lewis. Without faltering this wise leader carried on until his goal was reached in 1909 by the enactment of laws providing for a whole-time State health officer. Dr. W. S. Rankin, the State's first health officer, also served as editor with the assistance of various members of his staff until he designated Dr. Cooper to carry on this responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.