The smallpox situation in Salisbury and Rowan county is greatly improved, according to a statement by Dr. C.W. Armstrong, county health officer, this morning.
The health officer stated that while there was a decided let up in the number of cases of smallpox throughout the county it was yet advisable for those who had not been successfully vaccinated within the past five years to have their arms “scratched” again. This is urged as a sure precaution.
There were quite a number of cases of the disease in this section some several weeks ago and there are still a number of cases but the health authorities took hold of the matter at once and held it in check, and hundreds of persons, the majority being school children, were vaccinated, and no fears are entertained as to the spreading of the disease.
From the front page of the Salisbury Evening Post, Jan. 27, 1923
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