From the August 3, 1922, issue of the Watauga Democrat, Boone. Malaria and hookworm were serious problems in North Carolina in 1922.
North Carolina will probably furnish one county in which the International
Health Board will work out over a five year period, with the expenditure of
approximately $15,000 annually, what will come to be the ideal plan for county
health work, as the result of conferences to be held between Dr. W.S. Rankin,
state health officer, and Dr. Wilson G. Smillie, representing the
international.
No particular county will urged upon Dr. Smillie when he confers with Dr.
Rankin, but from among the number of counties that present conditions that are
particularly interesting to him, Dr. Smilley will probably designate one in
which the work will be undertaken. Several counties in the state offer health,
economic, and social conditions in line with the requirements.
Malaria and hook worm are two principal disease that the International
Health Board desires to study from the standpoint of public health that cannot
be observed in any but southern states. Tuberculosis and other diseases are as
prevalent in other sections, but here will be found conditions upon which every
phase of health work is brought to bear.
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