One Million Cases of
“Flu” in State
Pinehurst, April 16—One million cases of influenza in North
Carolina during the past five months would be a safe estimate, said Dr. W.S.
Rankin, Secretary of the State Board of Health, in making his annual report to
this body and the state medical society at the joint session held today at
noon.
Dr. Rankin based his estimate upon the mortality statistics
collected by his office which show that since October 13,703 Tar Heels died
from this disease—October, 6,551; November, 2,083; December, 1,920; January,
2,266; and February, 873. Dr. Rankin assumed the fatality was 1 ½ percent.
Dr. Rankin’s report was one of the chief features of the
sessions of the North Carolina Medical Association today.
During the morning sectional meetings were held, and this
afternoon the physicians were the guests of Mr. Leonard Tufts at horse races.
The meeting tonight was a memorial to the six physicians who
lost their lives with the colors, the 16 who died from influenza and the 14 who
died from other causes during the year.
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