1,500 Souls Lost on Titanic and 1,500 North Carolinians Lost Last Year to Typhoid Fever, 1912

“Startling Statistics,” from The Mebane Leader, published Thursday, June 20, 1912

The health department of North Carolina in its bulletin of June the 17^th gives some very startling information in reference to typhoid fever. It comments upon how the world was shocked then the Titanic went down with 1,500 souls, but it says last hear there were 1,500 victims of typhoid fever in North Carolina, that from the 20,000 who suffered from the disease. Proper precautions would have saved the lives of all.