Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1903 — Smallpox in Plenty. [ARTICLE]

Smallpox in Plenty.

The County Health Officer reTplped Friday from his~tTi p to the smallpox region m Union Tp„ and found a plenty of new cases, but all confined to the same three families. There are 11 new cases in all. Seven are in Bruce Mc-ffit’s family, 3 in Albert Garriotl’s and two in the Hopkins family. All the oases are mild except that of Mrs. Moffit, who is quite severely sick, but not to be considered dangerous at all. It is not believed that the disease will extend beyond these three families, and in all of them the raw material is practically exhausted. And in the Garriott family wholly so, there being no one left there to take it except the dog, and he is thought to be immune,