The Henderson County Board of Health met last week and
decided to continue the quarantine against gatherings for two more weeks,
ending on the night of November 2. This will make four weeks of the quarantine.
Local conditions didn’t appear to show much improvement and
in view of quite a number of cases and a few deaths in the county from
influenza and pneumonia resulting from this disease, the board decided to
extend the precautionary measures.
Small Pox Vaccination
The Board of Health revived the smallpox vaccination
question over which there has been considerable objection. Recently the board
suspended the order requiring vaccination until after the fodder pulling
season. This order was suspended until November 1. On and after November 2 the
people are required by law to undergo a vaccination against smallpox, from
which there was a recent death in the county.
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“Influenza Is Holding
Its Own in County,“ from the French
Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, Thursday,
Oct. 24, 1918.
The influenza epidemic seems to be holding its own in
Henderson county.
In the Green River section, where the trouble was most
malignant and where there were in the neighborhood of 40 deaths, the epidemic
has evidently reached its crest.
On Tuesday physicians were of the opinion that the trouble
was subsiding in Henderson county but on Wednesday a number of new cases were
reported and the physicians were in doubt as to whether the epidemic was
increasing or subsiding.
The epidemic is moving from the eastern part of the United
States to the western states, and is exacting an enormous toll in deaths.
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