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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
5
District nurse Miss Bert Nichols is praised for a year of service in High Point. The 1917 report covers Jan 15 to Dec 15 with 3600 visits across 70 homes and 12 daily average, detailing numerous private and surgical cases, illnesses, and welfare work.
In 1917 High Point recorded 229 deaths and 459 births with 182 white and 47 Negro deaths and 380 white and 71 Negro births. Death rate 15.25 per thousand, birth rate about 3 per thousand, aided by hospital deaths and disease on arrival. High Point township shows 60 deaths (53 white, 7 colored) and 151 births (146 white, 5 colored). The town had twice as many births as deaths, a notable record for towns of similar size.
Mrs. Geo L Hogan aged 26 of West Gen street died Friday morning. The remains were sent to Sharpsburg for interment. husband and two children survive.
A Chicago Tribune verse celebrates 1917 American soldiers marching to France. Khaki lines advance to ships offshore as watchers cry, praising democracy, duty, and the flag. The poem links homefront affection with the martial trek toward duty and sacrifice.
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