County Health Board
Closes Schools and Prohibits Public Gatherings of Any Kind. . . Flu Spreading
Rapidly in County. . . Many New Cases in Lumberton but Situation Is Better and
Spread Has Slowed Down in Mill Villages
According to information received from the various doctors by
Dr. W.A. McPhaul, county health officer, the influenza conditions are better in
Lumberton and the spread at the cotton mill villages has slowed down. However
the disease is spreading rapidly in the rural districts, having made its
appearance in practically every section of the county. While a number of cases
of pneumonia have developed, but few deaths have been reported and many of the
first victims are back at work again today.
Dr. McPhaul reported 425 new cases in Lumberton and vicinity
since Thursday. But few of these have been reported today. To date around 725
cases have been reported by Lumberton physicians. This includes the territory
which they have been able to cover.
Doctors outside of Lumberton have reported 185 new cases
since Thursday.
The county board of health met here today and passed an
ordinance closing all the private and public schools of the county, all kinds
of shows, forbidding the holding of Sunday school and church services, lodge
meetings or any other public meeting in the county until further notice from
the board.
The board resorted to this measure with the hope that the
spread of the disease might be held in chick as much as possible.
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