Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — SCARLET FEVER SCARE NORTH OF RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

SCARLET FEVER SCARE NORTH OF RENSSELAER.

Frankfort Visitor at Home of Quarun tined Family Pulls Ont With Family of Five Children. Dr. Loy, as county health commissioner, last week placed a quarantine over the farm residence of William Kennedy, north of town, after two cases of scarlet fever were discovered. Visiting at the Kennedy home was a man named Donohue, his wife and five children, and notwithstanding the fact that they were informed that they must remain there until the quarantine was removed, they are sai i to have come to Rensselaer Saturday afternoon and to have taken the 1:58 train for their home in Frankfort. One child is said to have been ill at the time, and consequently every person with whom they came in contact would have been exposed. Dr. Loy communicated with the tyealth officers at Frankfort as soon as he learned of the fact and a vigorous effort was to be made there to locate and quarantine the family. There were two cases of scarlet fever in the Kennedy family and it is thought the prompt discovery and treatment will prevent a spread unless persons were exposed at the depot Saturday. There are two cases of diphtheria reported in the family of William Rees, near Newland. The Rees family lives near to the Nuss family, where there were four cases recently. The cases in the Nuss family recovered and the quarantine was raised. Dr. Wilson, of Medaryville, is reported to have found several cases in the Newland neighborhood and to have placed them under quarantine. ' The county health commissioner states that the schools in the districts that have the diphtheria or scarlet fever will not be permitted to open until the disease is thoroughly rooted out. This will be promptly done by a rigid enforcement of the quarantine Cards have been printed and will be placed on all houses where either disease exists. There is a penalty /for violation of the quarantine and also for the destruction of the cards.