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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1919
Page
19
The State highway department states the automobile tax may be used for road maintenance, not highway construction. Tax collected by county assessors splits with 49 percent to county roads and 51 percent to state maintenance, after 2 percent collection costs.
State official C W Goddard announced surveys to determine the cost of exterminating mosquitoes and suppressing malaria in 12 Texas towns. A U S sanitary engineer will conduct the work free under a cooperative plan with the State board of health and the International Health Board. Towns include Athens Bryan Cameron Conroe Crockett Henderson Longview Lufkin Nacogdoches Navasota Palestine Trinity. A $25,000 prize was offered for a nonstop Paris New York flight in either direction.
On the twenty first day of last September the first influenza case was reported to the Texas Health Department. The illness spread rapidly across the state with a deadly toll, marking an unprecedented epidemic.
A public health warning urges rapid mobilization for a possible fall influenza outbreak. It cites cycles of mortality, recalls 1889 and past European epidemics, and urges Health Boards, civic groups, newspapers, and clubs to launch CLEAN UP CAMPAIGNS and preparedness efforts statewide.
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