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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
3
The state highway department states the automobile tax must fund maintenance only and cannot be used for road construction. Counties retain half the tax, pay 1 percent collection expense, and the other half goes to the state for road upkeep in a special fund.
State Officer C W Goddard announced surveys to estimate the cost of exterminating mosquitoes and suppressing malaria in 12 Texas towns. A U S sanitary engineer will conduct the surveys under a cooperative plan with the State board of health and the international health board at no cost to the towns. Towns include Athens Bryan Cameron Conroe Crockett Henderson Longview Lufkin Nacogdoches Navasota Palestine and Trinity. A $25 000 prize was offered for a nonstop Paris New York flight in either direction.
On the twenty first of last September the first influenza case was reported to the Texas Health Department. The epidemic spread rapidly across the state with a toll of lives that surpassed any equinoxial storm in history, signaling a dire health warning.
A statewide plea warns of recurring influenza cycles with high mortality and urges Health Boards to be organized or revived in every community. The note calls on newspapers, Civic Clubs, and Commercial Clubs to mobilize clean up campaigns and prepare for possible outbreaks this fall and winter. Local officials should meet and enlist public support to defend health and humanity.
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