Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1910 — Case of Diphtheria Quarantined At Monnett School for Girls. [ARTICLE]

Case of Diphtheria Quarantined At Monnett School for Girls.

Miss Bertha Riel, of Farmington, 111., came last week to begin work as a teacher in the Monnett school for girls and within a few days was incapacitated by a sore throat. A local physician thought It at first to be only tonsilitis but decided to send a culture to the state board of health and It was found to be virulent diphtheria. She was placed in a room of the school apart from the others, antitoxin administered and the school placed under quarantine. She is greatly improved and it is thought there will be no new oases. , ■ Two cases of scarldt fever are reported in the family of William Rees, of Newland, where there have been several previous cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever.