Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — SMALLPOX INVADES IDAVILLE [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX INVADES IDAVILLE

Monticello, .; January 28. —The smallpox situation at Idaville is serious, and Dr. R. B. Morris, sec-, retary of the county board of health, has. asked the commissioners to appropriate a sufficient sum to handle the expense of quarantining the diseased ones. There Is $250 available for Immediate use, but it is clalhied that this sum is inadequate to cover expenses. One man has been breaking quarantine and, according to the authorities, will be prosecuted. Joseph Bird, an immune, has been employed to patrol the quarantined district, and Dr. Goodwin Will assist Dr. Morris in the care of the cases.