Farm scene, South Carolina 1880’s, Library of Congress
	...If he is a dweller in the country the Board will drain the marshes which poison his residence, and teach him to remove his pigsties, privy, and dung heap to a safe distance from his house and well....
	We declare...that three great scourges have afflicted this country with countless woes, namely: Bad air, bad whiskey and bad biscuits!  Their baneful effects cannot be easily exaggerated: The first deteriorates the blood, out of which are the issues of life and death, the second is the cause of frequent crimes and sufferings, and the third makes us pale, lean and miserable.  Bad teaching, though it has no influence on health, from the magnitude and importance of its evil results, namely the disastrous effects upon the education of youth, whereby the intellectual standard of the State is lowered, might well constitute a fourth...
	State Board of Health. Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year Ending October 31st, 1881. Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1881.