Approximately 400 persons took advantage during the past week of the offer of the Durham health department to administer free serum treatment against typhoid fever. While this number is considerably lower than health officials would like it to be, it is thought that the coming week and the two campaign weeks that follow will see a much greater increase. In addition to those given treatment against typhoid at the various assigned places in the county, quite a number appeared at the health department laboratory in the court house and received the serum there.
Approximately 100 negroes were given the treatment by the colored health nurse, Pearl Henderson, she meeting them at the Hayti Drug store and the People’s Drug store, the hosiery mill, and the training school.
It is pointed out by health officials that so far in June not one new case of typhoid has been reported. This is considered an unusual record of this time of year. Just how long this clean record will be kept up is a matter of speculation.
The health department in the mean time is doing all in its power to eliminate all unsanitary conditions existing in the county and city. Prosecutions are being made of persons permitting their premises to become breeding places of flies through ill-kept barns and dry closets. Inspections of these places and the enforcement of the sanitary codes has much to do to keep down flies. The cleaning out of ditches in various sections of the county had done much to eliminate mosquitoes.
From page 21 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, June 24, 1923
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