Homes with Scarlet Fever, Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria, Measles, Whooping Cough Quarantined, 1917

“New Quarantine Law Requires of Citizens,” from the Oct. 30, 1917, issue of the Monroe Journal.

Do you know what is required of you by the new State Quarantine Law? It requires parents or householders to report every case of whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever and typhoid fever occurring in their homes to the county quarantine officer. It requires physicians to report ever case of these diseases that they are called on to attend to the county quarantine officer and to do this within 24 hours. It requires public school teachers to fill out and return the blanks furnished them by the county quarantine officer, and to follow the rules and regulations to protect them and their schools in case of an outbreak of any contagious disease. It requires county quarantine officers to send any parent or householder in whose home a contagious disease has been reported a yellow placard with the name of the disease printed on it with instructions for posting the placard on the front of the house. ….

The names addresses of those having a case of contagious disease during the month of October, which were reported to me, are printed below. If you know of other cases whose named do not appear here, such information given quarantine officer will be appreciated and held in strict confidence. It may be the means of saving a life or keeping down an epidemic.

Scarlet Fever

George Hargett, Monroe

Sara Hargett, Monroe

Ernest Plyler’s child, Monroe, Rt. 10

Joseph Stewart, Monroe

Jane Crow, Monroe, Rt. 5

Roy Wallace, Monroe

Chrissie Chress, Monroe

J.E. Hinson’s child, Monroe, Rt. 3

Calvin Wallace’s child, Wingate, Rt. 1

Martha Snyder, Wingate, Rt. 1

Annie Haynes, Monroe

Ethel Helms, Monroe, Rt. 1

Martha Williams, Wingate

Jimmie Pope, Monroe, Rt. 8

Willie May Hanes, Monroe

Typhoid Fever

Wilmer Williams, Monroe

Diphtheria

Mrs. A.W. McCall, Monroe

Lee Helms’ child, Marshville, Rt. 2

D.L. Furr’s child, Indian Trail, Rt. 1

Fairley Drake’s child, Unionville, Rt. 1

Ida Ferguson’s child, Monroe

Tillman Long’s child, Unionville

Measles

J.D. Helms, four cases, Indian Trail, Rt. 1

Davis Helm’s child, Indian Trail

Whooping Cough

W.V. Williams, five cases, Wingate, Rt. 1

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                --S.A. Stevens, County Quarantine Officer