People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Smallpox in the South. [ARTICLE]

Smallpox in the South.

Staunton, V*. May 15. —There are thirty-five cases of smallpox at this place, which twenty-three are in the hospital. There have been four deaths since Sunday morning. Business is at a standstill, as country people fear to come to town. At Lexington there are seven cases of smallpox in the pest camp. The disease is confined to the colored population.