Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health: July 1, 1930 June 30, 1932 In the seventies Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood, of Wilmington, caught the vision Of. The possibilities of public health work to North Carolina. How fully he grasped the far-reaching consequences of his idea, how clearly he saw the ever - growing hosts of lives saved as a result of his vision and inspiration, we shall never know. We do know that the vision never left him, and that under its sway he worked, through the Medical Journal which he edited and through the North Carolina State Medical Society until his influence reached the people of the State in their General Assembly of 1877, with the efiect that on February 12, 1877, the North Carolina State Board of Health was born. Ours was the twelfth State board of health to be established. Without treating the development of the newly-established board with that thoroughness that could be termed history, we think if enough to set down here in chronological order the principal events in the life and growth of the North Carolina State Board of Health. 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.