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Public Health Part 1: The State Board of Health and Other

WebThe State Board of Health and Other Early Public Initiatives. The first public health regulation in North Carolina was a maritime quarantine law of 1712 to prevent individuals …

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Public Health Part 2: Expansion of Government Health Agencies

WebPublic Health. by Jay Mazzocchi, 2006 Additional research provided by Robert J. Cain, Jerry L. Cross, Gail B. Joyner, and Alexander R. Stoesen. Part 1: The State Board of …

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Environment and Natural Resources, Department of NCpedia

Webby David Stick, 2006. The origins of what came to be known as the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources date as far back as 1823, …

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Hospitals NCpedia

WebGood Samaritan Hospital was completed in 1891 at a cost of $4,400. Other hospitals then serving the African American community were the North Carolina State Hospital at …

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Eugenics NCpedia

WebThe eugenics movement of the early twentieth century grew out of the research and writings of the English scientist, Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911). Galton, …

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Hookworms NCpedia

WebIt was a worm—the hookworm. Hookworm disease was one of three major diseases that had plagued the South since the early 1800s. Along with malaria and …

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Psychiatric Hospitals NCpedia

WebBy the early 2000s the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services operated four psychiatric hospitals for care of people with mental …

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Medical Society NCpedia

WebThe North Carolina Medical Society was founded in 1849 "to unite, serve, and represent physicians, in order to enhance physician advocacy for their patients, and improve the …

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Infectious Diseases- Part I: Overview NCpedia

WebPart 1: Overview. Before the widespread distribution of vaccinations, many serious, often deadly contagious diseases were commonplace in North Carolina and other American …

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WWI: North Carolina and Influenza NCpedia

WebIn a single week in October 1918, an estimated 21,000 Americans died. In North Carolina 13,644 people died before the epidemic finally went away. During its peak …

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Part 7: Modern-day Cherokee life and culture

WebPart vii: Modern-Day Cherokee Life and Culture. Despite many acts of Congress and more than 40 court decisions specifically related to the Cherokee in North …

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Dorothea Dix Hospital NCpedia

WebDorothea Lynde Dix was a New Englander born in 1802. Shocked by what she saw of the treatment of women with mental illnesses in Boston in 1841 she became a …

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Infectious Diseases- Part II: Significant Infectious Diseases in North

WebThe following infectious diseases caused serious damage to the lives and health of North Carolinians before the discovery of successful inoculations and vaccines. Ague. An acute …

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Privies NCpedia

WebPrivies—also known as latrines, loos, johns, outhouses, ajaxes, toilets, or necessaries—were typically small, separate structures associated with a larger domestic, …

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Malaria NCpedia

WebThe most popular theory of its cause was " miasma ," that is, the odor given off by decaying vegetation in a hot and humid environment (the name malaria is from the …

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Influenza Outbreak of 1918-1919 NCpedia

WebIn April 1919, Dr. William Rankin, the Secretary of the State Board of Health and a noted proponent of health education, reported the death of over 13,600 North …

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Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center NCpedia

WebThe Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center is a multidisciplinary organization in the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel …

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