Raleigh, April 11—Two hundred and fifty cases of smallpox reported in North Carolina last month caused State health officials to renew their plea for universal vaccinations, said Dr. F.M. Register of the bureau of vital statistics.
Dr. Register pointed out that only three countries, Switzerland, Russia, and Greece, have a larger per centage of smallpox than the United States. He used as a basis of contention that this disease can e prevented the fact that last year there was not a single case of smallpox reported in Australia or New Zealand.
Dr. Register called attention to the fact that the cases which developed in the larger cities of the State are included in the totals for the counties in which these cities are located.
“I wish to urge all our people to become vaccinated who have not yet taken that precaution,’ said Dr. Register. “When this month’s figures are in, they will doubtless show a spread of the disease to other counties.
‘There have been no pronounced epidemics of smallpox, and there is no need to anticipate any such epidemic. Yet, smallpox can be prevented through vaccination. This is the only absolutely safe course to pursue—to get vaccinated. I would that everybody would co-operate in stamping out this disease. It is a useless disease, in that it is a preventable disease.”
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, April 11, 1925
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