79 Leasburg Pupils Are Ill From Food or Water Poisoning: Health Department in Caswell County Probing Conditions: 1945
"Still under investigation is an outbreak of stomach upsets and nausea in Leasburg Elementary School, Caswell County, close to the Person line, where 79 pupils have been affected since Tuesday possibly by food poisoning or from drinking water.
"Caswell health and sanitation authorities, aided by W. B. Taylor, Person sanitarian, are checking both the school lunch room and the water supply, the last coming from a well and pumped into a tank in the school.
"Twenty-five Person boys and girls attend the school which has an enrollment of around 200.
"No more illnesses have developed today but all are being advised to bring drinking water from their homes. The lunch room is still in operation."
The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), 30 March 1945.
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