Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1908 — LONG SEIGE OF DIPHTHERIA. [ARTICLE]

LONG SEIGE OF DIPHTHERIA.

The Board of Health assisted in disinfecting and purifying the home of James Burke, northwest of Mo-’ non yesterday. It has been the scene of the most serious diphtheria scourge ever known in the county. The entire family of seventeen has had the disease in the past sixteen weeks, in more or less serious form, and five have died. Even one man who assisted in the work but wai not in the house or near it only once and lived in the barn, was afflicted.—Monticello Journal.