Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox, Diphtheria, Smallpox, Scarlet Fever in Martin County in March 1922

Health Officer’s Report

The following cases of contagious diseases were reported to me for the month of March, 1922:

Diphtheria, 7.

Smallpox, 1.

Whooping Cough, 89.

Scarlet Fever, 1.

Chicken pox, 10.

Total cases, 108.

Householders reported 51; physicians reported 41, and teachers 16.

--Wm. E. Warren, M.D., County Health Officer

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, April 4, 1922