Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — A Death From Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

A Death From Diphtheria.

A little 3or 4 year old son of James Cox and of his deceased wife, died at 9 o’clock last Saturday morning, at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cox, at Fair Oaks. The child was thought to have membraneous croup, but Dr. I. B. Washburn, who was called to see it that morning pronounced the disease diphtheria- The child died within about an hour after Dr. Washburn first saw it. He found the house full of sympathetic but indiscreet neighbors, including many little children, and all of whom remained in spite of his warning, and there is therefore great reason to fear a spread of the disease there. The little boy’s name was Moses but always called Modey. Since its mother’s death it has been raised by its grand-parents.