Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — EPIDEMIC OF SCARLET FEVER AT FAIR OAKS [ARTICLE]

EPIDEMIC OF SCARLET FEVER AT FAIR OAKS

Disease in Four Families But in Mild Form and Schools Rave * ■ : Not Been Closed. Dr. F. H. Hemflhill, county health officer, went to Fair Oaks Saturday and again this Monday morning to attend several cases of scarlet fever and to place the afflicted families under quarantine Four families have members sick with the disease, it is reported, the families being those* of William Warren, Doric Oottingham, John Van Cleve and John Zellers. The oases are reported to be mild and after making an investigation Dr. Hemphill decided not to close the schools for the time being. As most of the cases are reported to have broken out in the school and all had been exposed, it was decided to continue the schools until it was determined whether there would be a further spread.