Description
“Smallpox at Parkville” - - Dr. Wilson, county health officer, was called to Parkville Monday to diagnose some suspicious cases in colored families. He found 4 families in which there were smallpox patients - two of them developed in quite virulent form. Three of the afflicted families are headed by men bearing the distinguished names of George Washington, Andrew Jackson and John Q. Adams. Mayor H. B. McAfee on Tuesday had a tent pest house established in an isolated place and the patients removed thereto. Every precaution will be taken to prevent the spread of the disease, but it is said that many had already been exposed before the disease was known to be smallpox.Date(s) of Creation
9/11/1902
