Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the North Carolina Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis: Under Control of State Board of Health, Sanatorium, N. C., 1916
We have bought sputum cups in quarter-million lots and are shipping them all over the State to any one wanting them, at actual cost, which is 50 cents per 100. We have distributed of these during the last year. We have sent out copies of literature. We have had cases reported. Of these, are alive; the others have died. We have written letters, multi graph and personal, to the amount of We have received letters; we have written articles for the press, lbulletin, and other magazines, amount ing to words. We have prepared 37 forms, placards, etc., amounting to copies. We have been furnishing capillary tubes of tuberculin for the vo11 Pirquet diagnostic test to physicians and have sent out to these, the only charge being that they should report the result of the test. We have delivered during the last year 35 addresses, to a total audience of We have had 58 conferences with local authorities. We have done labora tory examinations in the last year and furnished physicians with histories of the first examination of their patients amounting to words. We have made a complete detailed sickness survey of the Silk Mill village at Wades boro, perhaps more complete than has ever been done in the United. States, and among other things, advised the employment of a public health nurse, which has been done, and the erection and maintenance of a sanatorium, which is now under consideration.
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