Obituary of ED SCOTT, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: August 5, 1948

Headline:  Rocky Mountain Fever Causes Death of Goodpine Colored Boy

The LaSalle Parish Health Unit has received a report from Dr. W. J. Sandidge, 
director of the Caddo-Shreveport Health Unit, that Ed Scott, 14, colored boy 
from Good Pine, died in a Shreveport Charity Hospital July 16, 1948.

A report from the U. S. Public Health laboratory in Shreveport showed 
positive results for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.  This case had formerly 
been reported here as typhoid fever.

Dr. E. L. Miller, head of the LaSalle Parish Health Unit, pointed out that 
this disease is tick-borne and is not communicable by man.  In this section 
of the country, the dog tick is the most common carrier.

Symptoms of the fever are sudden onsets of fever followed by chills and 
muscular spasms.  About the third or fourth day a rash breaks out on the 
extremities of the body.  This rash spreads until it covers the entire body.