Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — Scarlet Fever Reported in Two Families—Cases Severe. [ARTICLE]

Scarlet Fever Reported in Two Families—Cases Severe.

Two cafees of scarlet fever are reported, one in Fair Oaks and the other in Barkley township, probably 12 or 15 miles apart and having no connection locally, but peculiarly both cases to have been contracted in Hammond, where they had visited. The Fair Oaks case is that of the little daughter of Arthur Bopp, grandchild of Sam Potts, at whose home : t is sick. The other case is in tyre family of Fred Young, on the Frank Donnelly farm ip Barkley township. The cases are quite severe aut have been quarantined and a spread is not probable.