Jasper County GaArchives News.....Small Pox May 17, 1825
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Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Ga.) May 17, 1825
SMALL POX

We have this day received in our official capacity as a Board of Health, a 
written report from the committee of physicians, stating that the small pox has 
manifested itself in five cases in our village. From the novelty of the case we 
fear the citizens will not take timely alarm or adopt the necessary precaution, 
although the best means that our prudence and experience could suggest have 
been adopted by the board, yet we deem it our duty to make public far and near 
the facts as they exist, and recommend to our citizens abroad to keep aloof 
until the danger has subsided. We have despatched an express for the Vaccine 
Matter(?) and earnestly recommend to our citizes the general use of 
vaccination. Whenever the danger subsides we shall cheerfully announce it 
through the same medium.

Peter W. Gautier
Reuben C. Shorter
Joseph Bacon
Stephen D. Crane
John Baldwin
Owen H. Kenan
Cornelius D. Terhune
John Kendrick

Board of Health

Monticello, May 1, 1825



Additional Comments:
Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, Ga.), 17 May 1825, p. 1, col. 4.

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