Lenoir Takes Steps to
Prevent Spread of Flu
Lenoir, Jan. 31—Less than 15 cases of “flu” have developed
here since Tuesday, according to reports of physicians to the town authorities.
Thirty cases were reported on Tuesday. Up until last night the total number of
cases reported since the outbreak on Saturday numbered 67. Most of the cases
are very mild.
Thursday evening a joint meeting of the town commissioners
and the school board was held. Closing the school was not discussed, but plans
to prevent the spread of the disease were taken up by the physicians. The
result of the meeting was the appointment of each physician in the town as
assistant municipal quarantine officers to work with Dr. Wilson, quarantine
officer, in trying to keep any suspected exposed cases quarantined.
Town authorities have put the lid on bay rum and alcoholic
extracts that have been sold as whiskey substitutes. An ordinance prohibiting the
sale in any one day to any one person more than two ounces of bay rum, lemon,
vanilla or other extracts has been adopted. Any person found guilty of
violating this ordinance and convicted before the mayor shall be fined $50.
Bay rum, extracts, and some patent medicines have been used
here quite freely to bring on the desired feeling. The use of it has grown so
extensively that the town commissioners are making an effort to break up the
traffic.
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