Excerpt from Tenth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1903-1904Two years ago, in the opinion of the health authorities of many of the States, our country was threatened with an epi demic of bubonic plague. In spite of the positive assertion on the part of several of the leading bacteriologists of the United States of its presence in San Francisco, the fact was persistently denied by the Governor of California and the Board of Health of that State. In consequence, believing that the proper precautions were not being taken to prevent its spread to other sections, a sufficient number of States, including our own, requested a conference with the Surgeon General of. The United States Public Health and Marine Hos pital Service under the law governing that bureau. This was granted, and the meeting was held on January 19, 1903, the Secretary of our Board representing North Carolina. As the result of some very plain talk and the adoption of strong resolutions on the subject, the unfavorable conditions in San Francisco were remedied and the menace averted.During the past biennial period our State has been spared any unusual outbreak of disease, with the exception of the occurrence of typhoid fever in the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, in which there were sixty-seven cases, with two deaths, and of smallpox in many localities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.