Outbreak in Mill
Villages of Gaston and Cleveland Reported
Raleigh, Oct. 19—What is evidently a second outbreak of
influenza in epidemic form at Lumberton was reported to the State Board of
Health yesterday when an urgent appeal was made for doctors and nurses. The
situation throughout the State yesterday, based on the number of calls for
help, was decidedly worse and indications are that three of the western
counties, Cleveland, Gaston, and Rutherford, each with a large number of cotton
mills, are in the midst of the most violent epidemic recorded since the disease
first began to spread in North Carolina.
The trouble at Lumberton is blamed upon a too early let up
in health restrictions that were imposed by the authorities when the disease
first reached the Robeson county capital. There were no doctors yesterday to be
sent.
There are 72 cotton mills in Gaston county, and a large
number in Cleveland and Rutherford. Influenza was reported in several mill villages
in these counties yesterday, and Dr. James A. Keiger, public health service
expert, was dispatched to Rutherford to begin the organization of the villages
to fight the epidemic.
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