Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1916 — Smallpox Situation As It Affects the City Schools. [ARTICLE]

Smallpox Situation As It Affects the City Schools.

At a meeting of the school board Tuesday evening, the smallpox situation was discussed as to its effect upon the public schools. There is much more danger of the disease spreading at this season of the year than in the milder seasons when.,the people are more out of doors and in the open. Unless the people generally and the public school pupils es-< pecially resort to vaccination there is - grave danger of an epidemic. The question of excluding all pupils from the public schools who have not been Vaccinated was discussed, and it may be necessary for the authorities to make this requirement in the near future. However)* it is hoped that the .pupils and the parents of the pupils will voluntarily take care of this matter immediately, so that the authorities will not be compelled to take such steps in order to protect the schools and the public health generally.