Urban Growth, Epidemics, and the Expansion of Public Health in Winston Salem, NC 1910-1930

Simone Caron, Wake Forest University

This paper examines the rapid growth of Winston Salem in the early twentieth century, the creation of a county public health department in 1913, the Scarlet Fever epidemic in 1916, the Influenza epidemic of 1918, and the impact of these epidemics on the expansion of the newly created public health department.

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 Presented in Session 72. Fertility, Mortality, Plagues and Epidemics