People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Diphtheria Epidemic. [ARTICLE]

Diphtheria Epidemic.

Springfield. 111., Sept. 4. —The Illinois state board of health has been advised of the appearance of fifty new cases of diptheria at Hamilton county, and asked for instructions necessary for combatting the disease. Secretary Scott forwarded instructions. The outbreak in that county seems general. Several deaths have occurred.