Raleigh, July 13—Two additional cases of infantile paralysis were reported over the week-end. One of these was a 14-month-old baby at Davidson and the other a 2-year-old child at Cooleemee.
Whooping cough and measles continued to lead in cases of communicable diseases reported to the State board of health for the week ending July 10th. Both are considerably in excess of the cases occurring during the same week of last year, but are about on par with the 7-year average that is used as the basis of estimated expectancy.
Typhoid fever, which is usually reaching its peak towards the first of August, showed only 42 cases. The cases were widely scattered, Pitt County leading with five cases reported. The expectancy of typhoid for the week was 81, and the same week last year showed 58. The typhoid situation is, therefore, considered unusually good by officials of the State board of health. In a number of counties, vaccination campaigns are now being immunized against typhoid during the summer.
The figures for six of the most prevalent of the communicable diseases for the past week are as follows: scarlet fever 11, measles 160, whooping cough 217, diphtheria 9, smallpox 12, and typhoid fever 42.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, July 13, 1926
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