East Coast States Research Articles

Location decisions of National Health Service Corps physicians.

Results of a survey of 100 National Health Service Corps (NHSC) physicians in 10 east coast states (94 per cent response rate) indicate that 56 have plans to locate in a rural area after their service obligation is complete and 15 have not yet decided. Those who decide for a rural practice value personal and community factors to a higher degree than professional factors and are more likely to have a primary care practice.

Cleansing the Puritan City: The Reverend Henry Morgan's Antivice Crusade in Boston

THE middle and late years of the nineteenth century were times of great economic, social, and physical change in American cities: commerce was being challenged by industry, new residents were outnumbering the old, and the size and appearance of cities were being altered considerably. Most significant to many older urban dwellers was that the character of their cities was changing, and changing for the worse. The new migrants, who were poor and uneducated, certainly did not uphold the genteel traditions of former years. Suddenly, or so it seemed, vice, crime, and corruption became major problems. Reformers cried out about the evils of city life and sought to cleanse the environment. Among eastern cities, New York acquired the unenviable reputation of being a New World Sodom. Yet to Boston the problem seemed more acute. Bostonians, proud of their Puritan heritage, considered themselves intellectually and morally superior to New Yorkers. Still, the population of the Athens of America was different from that of earlier years. The old Protestant stock was being diluted by an influx of Irish Catholics, and erosion of the Puritan ideal seemed sure to follow. Nonetheless, while Bostonians worried about attacks on their moral fortress, most of them clung to a belief in their city's essential purity. Their belief was soon challenged. In Boston, too, reformers discovered wickedness, and the most outspoken critic was the immensely popular, self-styled Poor Man's Preacher, the Reverend Henry Morgan. Born in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1825, Morgan spent his early adulthood as an itinerant temperance preacher, traveling through several northern and southern East Coast states. He spoke wherever he could find an audience, but he was most interested in carrying his message to the inmates of penal

Population estimates for the Malay Peninsula in the Nineteenth Century, with special reference to the East Coast States

Summary Of the several population estimates for the Malay peninsula and its individual states in the nineteenth century, Newbold's figure of some 473,000 persons for the Malay peninsula in the 1830's is the most widely quoted and accepted. It is on the basis of Newbold's figures and later census statistics that it is believed that the Malay population of the peninsula dramatically increased during the nineteenth century due to archipelagan Malay immigration and internal population growth. The aim of this paper is to bring together in a systematic fashion all the various published population figures; to argue that archipelagan immigration hardly affected the northern and eastern states of the peninsula where the bulk of the peninsular Malays lived; that a pre-industrial population explosion on the peninsula is not plausible; and that, as in Java in the nineteenth century, the belief in a population explosion is based on an erroneously low early estimate that has been accepted, for want of anything better, mainly because of European ignorance and lack of interest in the native population and partly because of a mistaken belief in the demographic benefits of early colonialism. The paper concludes that a population of some 750,000 on the peninsula in the 1830's would be a reasonable, conservative estimate.

Population Estimates for the Malay Peninsula in the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to the East Coast States

Population Estimates for the Malay Peninsula in the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to the East Coast States

Survey for Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in Serums of White-tailed Deer Odocoileus Virginianus of the Southeastern United States

New Jersey type vesicular stomatitis (VS) antibodies were found in 14 of 677 deer serums tested by neutralization tests in embryonated chicken eggs. Twelve positive serums were received from Louisiana and two from Georgia. Eight of the positive deer serums from Louisiana were collected in the area of the only reported case of VS during 1967. Clinical VS has not been diagnosed in the east coast states since 1964. Two positive deer serums were collected on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, and three positive serums, one each from a hog, bull, and sheep, were collected from young animals on the island. These findings indicated subclinical infection or a nidus of New Jersey VS in Georgia. The low percentage of New Jersey type VS antibodies in deer and the distribution parallel the low incidence of VS since 1964. No antibodies were present for Indiana type VS virus.

The Malayan Elections of 1959

S OME KNOWLEDGE of the Federation of Malaya's human geography is essential if the country's political institutions are to be understood. In order of both numerical and political importance, the three major communities of the country are the long established Malays, the rather newly established Chinese, and the substantial Indian minority; within each of these communities there are important sub-divisions. The three communities are sharply differentiated from one another in economic roles, social institutions and mother tongue. There are, moreover, marked regional differences in the ethnic composition of the population and these differences reflect regional variations in the economic structure. The large urban population and the population of the more important tin-mining areas is predominantly Chinese. Rubber plantations owned by European companies usually employ Indian labour, whereas plantations owned by Chinese are usually worked by Chinese labourers. Rubber small-holdings, which account for a substantial proportion of the aggregate Malayan production of rubber, are mostly owned by Malays and Chinese and worked by the owners or tenants and their families, sometimes with paid assistance. Malays form the majority of the population in the important rice-growing areas and fishing is almost exclusively a Malay occupation on the east coast of Malaya. In the northernmost States of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu, the Malays carry on traditional methods of rice production and fishing. They have not felt the full force of the economic and social changes which have resulted directly from the development of rubber plantations and tin mines and the vast influx of Chinese and Indian immigrants to service these industries. The east coast States of Kelantan and Trengganu, in particular, have retained their traditional character; they are cut off from the rest of Malaya by a thick belt of jungle and their Malay Governments have been successful in preventing an influx of foreigners and foreign ideas. Even their Malay cousins in the west coast States regard the north-east coast as something like a foreign country. It is in the four northern States that any political party preaching Malay nationalism and Malay rights and privileges is most likely to flourish. The coastal plains on the west coast from slightly north of Penang down to the island of Singapore contain the great majority of the huge areas of land under rubber and the rich tin-producing areas. It is the States of Penang,

Journeys in the Siamese East Coast States: Discussion

Journeys in the Siamese East Coast States: Discussion

Journeys in the Siamese East Coast States

Journeys in the Siamese East Coast States