Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — Dr. Hurty Gives Notice About Infantile Paralysis Quarantine. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Hurty Gives Notice About Infantile Paralysis Quarantine.

Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, has ordered county'health commissioners to hereafter card all houses in which there is a case of infantile paralysis, placing it in the same class with several contagious diseases, and all cases of it are to be reported without delay to the county health officer. The disease is technically know as anterior poliomelitis. There are now a large number of cases in Indiana and it seems that when one case occurs several others usually occur in the same locality. Just what causes the disease is not known, but the cause is thought to be of a bacterial nature. The notice of Dr. Hurty is based upon action taken at the October meeting of the state board of health. It is published elsewhere in the Republican.