Camas County ID Archives History .....Epidemics 
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CAMAS COUNTY IDAHO 
  
 

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                                                                CAMAS  COUNTY  
IDAHO 

  

  

EPIDEMICS: 

DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK: 

Winter of 1892 and spring of 1893: 

Note: 

People could not get out for the doctor due to weather conditions and did the 
best they could for their

familys.

 Known Children's Deaths; 

Walter and Hannah Gardner lost Two children,Doris(Dora) and Willis(Willy) 
Gardner 

  

John and Ellen Hardy Finch lost one child,Flossie Alfonsa Finch

  

Philip and Nancy Permelia Ballard lost one child,Josephine Ethel Ballard

  

John Owen and Lydia Adeline Ballard Wardroup lost One child,Alice Loretta 
Wardroup

  

There may have been other deaths from Diphtheria.

  

  

SMALL POX: 

The town of Soldier was quarantined the winter of 1900 because of a Small Pox 
Epidemic 

 Note: 

Wood River Times Jan 1900 



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