Harper County KS Archives News.....Small pox in Attica. January 11, 1900
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The Anthony Weekly Bulletin January 11, 1900
Harper County
Thursday
January 11, 1900

Small pox in Attica.
More than a little excitement was caused in Attica this week on account of a
smallpox scare. Oscar NEAL, who has been visiting at the home of relatives
northwest of town, took the train from here Wednesday for his home at Blackwell,
Oklahoma. He had been sick the Cuban chickenpox and a great many who were
uninformed as to the nature of the disease came to the conclusion that he had
the small pox. The news soon spread in the crowd at the depot and of course the
people began to get afraid to go near him. As soon as the train arrived Mr. Neal
and his wife and baby got aboard, but before it started someone told Conductor
Lucley that "there was a man on the train that looked like he had the smallpox."
The conductor at once consulted two physicians who were standing on the
platform, and they told thim that it was nothing more than a case of the Cuban
chicken pox. This disease is spread nearly all over the United States, and while
it is not dangerous it is not at all pleasant. The !
 Oklahoma Territorial Board of Health met in Blackweell this week and decided,
after an investigation of the many cases at the place, that the danger connected
with having such a harmless disease would not justify a quarantine.--Attica
Independent. 


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