Friday, May 23, 2008

Much Illness in Bay Shore

New York, 1895

A scourge of diphtheria has added its terrors to grip and pneumonia, which have ravaged Bay Shore this winter. The first cases of diphtheria occurred in the family of John H. Bedell. Captain Urias Rhodes and three of his children, aged 8, 11 and 14 years, are all down with diphtheria.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.

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