The Ouachita Telegraph - Price Bartlett Dies of Small Pox

Date: Aug. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, June 29, 1877
Page 3, Column 1

The Small Pox.
        Price Bartlett, an old colored man, died of small pox, near the 
depot, last week.  This is the third fatal case of this disease in Monroe 
since its first appearance in our city several weeks ago, the victims being 
all colored.  No white person has been attacked.  Our authorities and citizens
should be extremely cautious in preventing the spread of the disease, and
the most energetic measures be adopted to root out the loathsome pest.
Better a few should suffer inconvenience now and apparent harsh measures be
used, than the city should become a pest-house and whole families become
sufferers from the indiscretion of a few.  There is no immediate danger, it
is true, but no one feels entirely safe with such a pestilential disease
about him.

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