Flu Situation Better, Scarlet Fever and Chicken Pox Plague Families, Feb. 24, 1920

From the Hickory Daily Record, Feb. 24, 1920

Situation Better in Hickory Today

The influenza situation continues good in Hickory, according to the reports of physicians. There are several families in which nearly all members have the disease, but it is believed that it is no longer serious in the city.

Reports from Burke county to Dr. H.C. Menzies, city health officer, are more serious, and many families are ill. The proportion of cases in the country, Dr. Menzies said, is much larger than in Hickory and he could account for this condition only by the supposition that the disease skipped certain communities in 1918-19 and made up for lost ground this time. Some pneumonia is also reported in the country.

Two cases of scarlet fever were reported this week, and chickenpox has been rather worrisome in a few families.