Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — CHILDREN VACCINATED. [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN VACCINATED.

Physician at Delphi School to Prevent Spread of Smallpox. Delphi, Ind., Nov. 18.—The smallpox epidemic in this city is assuming alarming proportions, and threatens to close the schools and put a stop to all public meetings. There are at present about a dozen cases in the city and new ones are being reported almost daily. The conditions at the schools have become so alarming that Superintendent Townsley gave to each pupil in the school a notice to be taken to their parents saying that the school is threatened with an epidemic of smallpox. The notice says that the only protection is vaccination and that a physician will be at the school building every day this week to vaccinate, without charge, any child. The result of this notice is that nearly every child in the school has been vaccinated within the last two days.