Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — Hough Child Died of Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

Hough Child Died of Diphtheria.

Two cases of diphtheria have appeared in the family of W. B. Hough of Jordan tp. The first was that of their little daughter, who died last week. The parents did not think the child was very ill, and it had no medical attention. When another child was taken down with the same symptoms, a doctor was called and it was found to be suffering from malignant diphtheria. The latter child was reported better yesterday and will get well. Dr. Loy is in attendance, and he states that only these two cases have appeared, although perhaps there have been quite a number exposed to the disease before it was known what the trouble was. It is not known how the disease was contracted by the Hough children, and it seems to have heen simply a sporadic outbreak.