Flu Raging Again
Influenza in the past two or more weeks has broken out in
nearly every section of the State, but particularly it is bad in Catawba
county. Asheville has 300 cases, Raleigh 150, Gastonia 200, and so on.
Fortunately the disease is in a much milder form than was the case with the
epidemic of 1918. In New York there are over 20,000 cases, with nearly 1,000
deaths. Chicago and other large cities are in the grip of it.
There are 75 cases at the Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh,
but it is in the mild form.
Mooresville has quarantined the town against the country.
Schools at Cherryville and many other towns have been closed in an effort to
arrest its spread.
There are only a very few scattered cases of flu, in its
mildest form, in Richmond count. So mild is it that were the epidemic not
raging in other places, it might be called just a very bad cold.
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