Showing posts with label diphtheria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diphtheria. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Diphtheria in a Protectory

New York, 1895

Diphtheria has broken out in St. John's Catholic protectory, half a mile north of Hicksville. Dr. Mann of Jericho on Sunday reported the case to the health authorities of Oyster Bay, and Dr. Zabriski paid a visit to the protectory on Monday. He will order the place quarantined. Fifteen boys are stricken with the disease.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 4.

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.