Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — SMALLPOX IN BARKLEY AND GILLAM. [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX IN BARKLEY AND GILLAM.

People Who Would Not Be Vaccinated are Now Paying the Penalty. Rumors of small-pox again prevailing up around the vicinity of Gifford, have been circulating for some days. The truth of the rumor has been confirmed, although the .number of oases is not yet so great as reported. So far the disease ' exists only in two families, that of Michael Hancock, in Barkley tp, where there are five oases, and Cornelius Williamson, in Gillam tp with two cases. Two of the cases in the Hancock family are said to|be quite severe. A number es other people are said to have been exposed. The disease is said to have been contracted at Medaryville. These families, and some other exposed ones, refused to be vaccinated, last May, even after the county commissioners had ordered a general vaccination, and had provided it in every community, free of expense. There need be no fear of any extensive spread of the disease in this county, on account of the general vaccination above mentioned.