Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — MANY SICK IN RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

MANY SICK IN RENSSELAER

Conditions Here, as Elsewhere, Are Worst Ever Known. • Probably never before in the history of Rensselaer has there been as much sickness at one time as we have had during the past week. Much. of this sickness has been of a rather imlld character and has only kept the patients confined to their homes for a day or two. Just what the ailment is is perhaps a little ipuzzling to the doctors. Practically the same situation prevails a large scope of country and it generally has been called influenza in a mild form, although in some places it is pronounced grip, and not influenza at all. In numerous cases pneumonia has followed and there has been many deaths as a result. In Rensselaer the county hospital has been filled to overflowing and there has also been a scarcity of nurses as as 'help of any kind both in the hospital and private homes. Aimong the number of Renselaer people who have been confined to their homes for from a day or two to a week past are the following: Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Ctarke, Mrs. S. H. Cornwell (the lattW now ‘has pneumonia), Charles Baker, C. E. Lohr, MrS. Carrie Dayton, Mrs. True D. Woodworth, Mrs. George M. Wilcox.