Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1903 — All Say Smallpox. [ARTICLE]

All Say Smallpox.

Dr. Arthur Kreeler, the Rensselaer oity health offioer went ont last Saturday morning, and pat up smallpox cards on five different houses, in different parts of town, and deolared the families quarantined. One of these was at the Brooks house, north of the railroad where the Juror W. J. White JLs staying. The cases so far developed are all of a very mild type, and no donbt the future oases will be so also. The dootors are nowell agreed that the disease is either smallpox, or in some crses perhaps, its modification, varioloid. There are now 13 cases in the 9 houses.