Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — THREATENED WITH SMALLPOX. [ARTICLE]

THREATENED WITH SMALLPOX.

The State Board Thinks Extra Frecatloai Should lie Taken. Indiana is threatened with the smallpox from three directions, and the State Board of Health thinks that extra precautions will have to be exercised by the county health officers, or the result may be an epidemic as severe as that which some portions of tho State have just recovered from. The greatest danger i 9 in the northern portion, especially about Chicago. Several railroads run into the State from there and reports to the Stat< | board say nearly two hundred cases have developed at Chicago. It is not known that the Chicago officials are preventing exposed cases from coming into Indiana Cases are also reported in southern Michigan and western Ohio. The State board Is instructing the county boards to boon tlie alert for travelers who have been exposed. It may become necessary to inspect the trains from Chicago. Secretary Metcalf, of the State board, will manage the inspection from Hammond.