Sunday, August 28, 2011

Diptheria is prevailing . . .


. . . to an alarming extent in the State of Maine.  In the town of Patten, one in eleven of the entire population have died from it, while great mortality prevails in other portions of the state.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 15, 1862, p. 2

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