Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Smallpox Closes the Schools. [ARTICLE]

Smallpox Closes the Schools.

Murray, a town of 1,000 inhabitants, twenty-three miles east of Creston, lowa, has been inoculated with smallpox and the authorities have closed public schools and churches and forbidden the holding of public meetings. A portion of the town is under strict quarantine. The village of Gates Mills, Ohio, is cut off from communication from the outside world because of an epidemic of smallpox. The number of cases is about forty and it is feared the disease is beyond control of the doctors. The village is reached only by suburban trolley cars to Cleveland, and the cars have refused to stop at Gates Mills.