Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — The Plymouth Epidemic. [ARTICLE]

The Plymouth Epidemic.

[Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch.] The new hospital at Plymouth for the reception of patients afflicted with the fever was formally opened this morning. Only tnose who have no homes will be admitted. Medical attendance and nurses will be free. On Gaylord avenue there are eighteen families that must be kept in food and medicine. All the members are down with fever. It costs $lO a day to keep these families alone. There are about eighty other cases of families receiving aid from the relief committee. There were two deaths yesterday and thirteen new cases.