Shawnee County KS Archives News.....Smallpox Increse: July 9, 1919 July 9, 1919
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The Topeka Daily State Journal, Wednesday, July 9, 1919 July 9, 1919
Smallpox Increase.
Twenty-Five Cases Reported Here in Last Three Months.

Smallpox cases in Topeka are now more numerous than for some time, Dr. Earle G.
Brown, city health officer, stated this morning.
Twenty-five cases were reported during April, May and June. The twenty-sixth
case was reported this morning when the health department was notified that W.H.
HAYNES of 1216 Boswell avenue, had contracted the disease.
Altho Doctor Brown does not look for an epidemic, he says that the occurrence of
smallpox has been unusually high for a city the size of Topeka. Conditions have
been similar for some time to those existing prior to the big smallpox epidemic
several years ago, which began at about this time of the year and continue until
cold weather set in. There were sixty cases in the pest house at one time.
According to the report of the state board of health, Doctor Brown stated, there
were 337 cases of smallpox in Kansas in April. Topeka furnished 10 of these.
Only three other cities furnished a large number but they had small epidemics.
The larger reports were: Chanute, 68; Atchison, 61, and Wichita, 22.
The health officer urges vaccination. If citizens do not care to take advantage
of the free vaccinations that may be obtained at the city clinic, they should
obtain them from their family physicians, he says.


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