Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — NINE IN FAMILY VICTIMS OF DISEASE. [ARTICLE]

NINE IN FAMILY VICTIMS OF DISEASE.

Dr. Goodwin went out with Dr. R. M. Reagan, of Monon, the attending physician, yesterday, to see the diphtheria patients in the family of James Burke, who lives northwest of Monon. He found a veritable hospital. There are, including the father and mother, sixteen in the family, and nine of the children are sick with the dread disease, with three or four of the largest boys guaranteed in the barn. A young man, twenty-two years old, is the ’oldest patient. Up until ten o’clock yesterday, 30,000 units of antitoxin had been used, and it was fully expected w'ould be used before midnight. Three or four of the children are just as bad as they can be and live. Both doctors have 'been using yieir best endeavors to try to trace the outbreak of its source, and as nearly as they can learn, It started in the Nauvoo school in Pulaski county. Those caring for the children are almost worn out with the worry,„ labor and loss of sleep, and the family is in a pitiable plight.—Monticello Journal. s