Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — G. Wood’s Family Quarantined; Another Child Sick. [ARTICLE]

G. Wood’s Family Quarantined; Another Child Sick.

Further particulars have been received as to the sickness and death of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, who moved to South Dakota a few weeks ago. R. B. Porter, on whose farm Mr. Wood is living, has written a letter giving the particulars of the death. The Woods have been living in a frame house on Mr. Porter’s land. The death of George Alton Was caused by spinal meningitis and pneumonia. Their seven year old daughter, Victorina, also has the same disease. Mrs. Porter waited upon the family during the sickness, and during her presence at the house the officers quarantined the family, and she is now there, and will have to remain with the quarantined family for the present. The family was not allowed to attend the burial of the son, which makes .the grief doubly great. The neighbors are rendering all the assistance possible, but the family being isolated, not much can be done to help them. Certain forms of this disease are contagious, and it is customary' in such cases to establish a quarantine.