According to information reaching Goldsboro, the “strike” of a number of pupils in the Mount Carmel school in the PIkeville section, which was inaugurated last Monday morning, is gradually becoming a thing of the past as parents of the boys and girls are realizing the advantage of allowing their children to be vaccinated against smallpox, and this permits them to resume their studies.
There are about 100 pupils in this school and of this number less than one-fourth had been vaccinated at the beginning of the week. Last Monday, the majority of the pupils failed to show up for class work, and the matter was reported to welfare and county health officials who went out to that section and spoke before the parents.
Since that time a number of the boys and girls have complied with the law relative to vaccination and the classes have grown larger daily, it is said.
Welfare and health officials have expressed the hope that the trouble can be settle amicably without having to resort to the law to compel the school children who have and thus far been vaccinated, and who are not attending school now, to do so.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday morning, Feb. 27, 1926
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