Friday, August 8, 2008

Black Diphtheria at Mineola.

New York, 1895

Several cases of black diphtheria have broken out in Mineola in the family of a Pole named Feneski. One death has occurred and three more cases are under treatment. The house is quarantined.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.

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