Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — HAS EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX. [ARTICLE]

HAS EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX.

Kansas City Physicians Allow the Disease to Get a Foothold. Kansas City, Kan., is threatened with a terrible epidemic of smallpox. More than a score of cases have been discovered, and the people are panic-stricken. For weeks the disease has been lurking in the thickly populated and unhealthy districts of the city. It has been of a rather mild form, and the physicians have pronounced it chickenpox and measles in most instances; Smallpox has now spread to every negro quarter of the tovn.