N.C. State Board of Health
Failure to secure immunity from typhoid fever by vaccination proved unusually disastrous to a Duplin county family. Nine members of the family were striken with the disease. Five died.
During the summer of last year the State Board of Health conducted an anti-typhoid campaign in Duplin county. Vaccination was made available to all the citizens of the county without charge. None of the members of the family in question took advantage of the opportunity. A daughter of the family went visiting and contracted typhoid. Other members of the family visited the sick woman and after returning home were stricken. The disease spread until every one of the nine members of the family developed typhoid. In addition to a nurse employed in the stricken family, who also developed the disease. Five members of the family died.
According to the State Board of Health, this is one of the most severe “family epidemics” that has been brought to the attention of the State Health authorities. The pity of it is that the 10 cases of illness and the five deaths could have been every easily prevented.
From The Alamance Gleamer, Graham, N.C., Wednesday, June 8, 1921
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