OBIT: Coleman KARP, 1916, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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Karp, Coleman

EIGHT CASES PARALYSIS - Three Victims of Infantile Disease in Somerset County 
Have Died. Infantile Paralysis claimed another young life in this region Sunday. 
In addition a sudden outburst of the disease at Confluence in this county 
resulted in an extra ordinary joint meeting of the board of health and the 
borough council Sunday afternoon. As a result of the session, a rigid quarantine 
on all children in the borough for the next two weeks was ordered. All little 
ones are to be kept on the premises of their parents and all churches, Sunday 
Schools and other assemblages are to be closed until the quarantine is lifted. 
The little chap, who died is Coleman Karp, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 
David Karp of Barnesboro. He died at 4 o'clock Sunday morning after three days' 
illness. The child suffered from what is known as ascending paralysis, which 
begins in the feet and successive limbs until it reaches the vitals. The child 
died when the respiratory and cardiac centers in the medulla oblongata were 
paralyzed, making respiration and heart action impossible. The remains of the 
child were taken to Johnstown in an auto hearse and were buried in the Hebrew 
Cemetery at Giestown. Five new cases developed Sunday at or near Confluence, as 
follows: Ruth, seven-month-old daughter of Arch Kennedy of Dumas, a village near 
Confluence; James, two-year-old son of Frank Havner of Confluence; May, three-
year-old daughter of C. A. Cunningham of Confluence; Vincent, four years old and 
Eva, three year old children of Albert Hyatt of Confluence. The Fox children, 
who first became ill at Confluence, returned Sunday to their home in 
Conshohocken, Pa. The situation in Cambria and Somerset Counties, outside of the 
places named, is said to be unchanged. Elsie, the eight year old daughter of W. 
A. Bird, of Listonburg died yesterday after only one day illness. There have 
been in the past few weeks in all thirteen cases of infantile paralysis in 
Somerset County. (Meyersdale Commercial Aug. 24, 1916)