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30022
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North Carolina has spent over $3 million in public health services. These services included cooperative work and funding for children's medicine, dentistry, occupational diseases, and preventative medicine.
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30025
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The North Carolina State Board and Department of Health has multiple divisions that work throughout the state on behalf of the public. In areas such as preventive medicine, epidemiology, sanitary engineering, industrial hygiene, and nutrition the Department of Health works with state and local government officials and trains individuals with up-to-date information.
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30031
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Since 1913, The North Carolina State Board of Health has been keeping a record of births and deaths in the state. Numbers have shown that births are up and deaths are down, showing that the promotion of public health initiatives in the state are helping.
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30032
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A major project of the North Carolina State Board of Health and the Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation is in the fight against venereal disease. The state has opened more than 300 hundred clinics for the treatment of such diseases and is providing information for understanding the problem.
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30033
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In return for over a $135,000 in investments, the North Carolina State Laboratory of Hygiene provides services and materials to the people of the state. These services, including vaccines, are valued at over $3,000,000.
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30034
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When Congress recessed in July, they had appropriated over $115 billion in new money and re-appropriated another $15 billion. Work continued on the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and National Youth Administration, as well as addressing concerns over troubled war offices.
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30035
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The Governor of North Carolina is given certain powers and privileges given the Constitution of the state. These powers and duties change over time and currently new duties include the larger ability to appoint offices and commissions and responsibility as director of the budget.
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30036
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With the country in the midst of war, it is estimated that the national government will over over $300 billion by 1945. Assuming this is correct, a break down of what each North Carolina county would owe is presented, given its population size as of the last census in 1940.
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30037
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North Carolina has been the place of several advances in public health in the last decade. Reform has resulted in the employment of only trained and qualified personnel as the state becomes the model for the fight against venereal disease, the home of a new state laboratory of hygiene, division of oral hygiene, and greater work with rehabilitating children with disabilities.
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30038
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Made famous by the portrait done by her son, Mathilda McNeill Whistler was born in North Carolina, part of the long-standing McNeill Clan.
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30039
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An investigation by the Transportation Board of Investigation and Research has found that there are existing regional differences in class freight rates and they were not justified in differences in cost of rendering services to various regions, composition of traffic, or any other conditions. It has been suggested that given the similarities, the country as a whole establish a uniform classification of freight and scale of class rates for transportation by railroad.
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30040
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When World War II ends, public construction is considered one avenue of work that will provide good jobs for those seeking employment. But North Carolina is footing the bill for its public construction. Throughout the War, local units of the state's government have been accumulating surplus funds which allows them to pay for new roads, public buildings, and municipal services. The use of local funds versus federal government funding for these public projects also saves the taxpayers money in the long run.
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30041
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Recent court decisions upheld the contention of the government that the Qualla band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina are living in tribal relationship and that they are living on a reservation. The principal contention is that the Qualla Tribe does not hold the same status as Indians living on reservations ceded to tribes in the western part of the country. Although this band of Cherokee technically are required to pay federal taxes, they are not however, subject to state taxes.
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30052
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Born in North Carolina, Dorothea Payne Todd Madison, or Dolly, was one of the country's most beloved First Ladies. From Guilford County to the White House, Dolly attended to her loved ones and public with charm and courage.
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30055
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The month of March seems to always be an exciting one for North Carolina. For example, in March 1662, land was deeded to George Durant in what is now Perquimans County. In March 1781, General Cornwallis abandoned Guilford Courthouse Battlefield. In March 1870, Greensboro opened the first graded school system in the state.
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