Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1901 — 2,000 Indiana Children Will Be Poisoned this Summer. [ARTICLE]

2,000 Indiana Children Will Be Poisoned this Summer.

"This season is coming on for new diseases,” said Secretary Hurty, of the state board of health Wednesday, “but they are so common we pay very little attention to them. About 2,000 children wfll die in the state this summer from diseases which might be prevented by proper care. There will be dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera morbus and oilier afflctions which comp from improperly’ prepared and tainted food. The children will be simply poisoned to death.”