Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1905 — A Careless Officers. [ARTICLE]

A Careless Officers.

Dr J. G. Webster, health effier at Colfax, Ciinton county is under arr/st and quarantined in hie own house. Eighteen oases of smallpox were discovered by Dr. Hurty secretary of the state board o’ health, which Dr Webster contended were common itch and in attending them h'd u*ed no precaution to prevent the spread cf the dise se.