A countywide campaign to check the ravages of typhoid fever will begin Saturday, thru action taken Monday by the Board of County Commissioners, and Dr. Howard J. Combs, who will have charge of the work, urges that all persons of all ages who have not been inoculated within two years avail themselves of the opportunity to gain immunity form the disease, free of cost.
Through inoculations given periodically in this city and County over a number of years, typhoid is fast nearing the vanishing point here. The State furnishes the vaccine used, and the County pays the expense of administering it. Inoculations are given at intervals of one week over a period of three weeks, and those taking them must receive all three treatments to become immune to the disease.
It is extremely important that all persons susceptible to typhoid take the inoculations, Dr. Combs says, pointing out that in no other way can the disease, now recognized as clearly in the preventable class, be driven out entirely.
Places, dates and hours during which the treatment will be given are as follows:
Elizabeth City: Court house, May 9, 16 and 23; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Salem: May 11, 18 and 25; Weeksville High School, 10 to 12 a.m., Kehukee Church, 1 to 3 p.m.
Nixonton: May 12, 19 and 26; Riverside or Epworth School 10 to 11 a.m., Bob White Forks, noon to 2 p.m.; Blount’s School, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Mt. Hermon: May 13, 20, 27; Cartwright’s School, 10 to 12 a.m.; Okisko, 12:30 to 2 p.m., Small’s School, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Providence: May 14, 21 and 28; Fork School, 10 to 12 a.m.; Berea School, 1 to 3 p.m.
Newland: May 15, 22 and 29; High School, 9 to 11 a.m.; Mill Pond colored school, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, Monday, May 4, 1925
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