Knox County TN Archives News.....Sixty Cases of Smallpox. March 30, 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Blum-Barton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000645 March 20, 2006, 5:53 pm The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 30, 1903 Knoxville, Tenn., March 25. -- The smallpox situation in this city is not materially changed. There are now sixty cases, and almost one hundred people are in quarantine and in the detention quarters. The latest cases discovered, three in number, were two negroes who were removed to the city pest house, and one white man, named Wright, a civil engineer, who is in detention awaiting developments. The city officials, expect the new pest house, 5 miles north of the city, to be ready for occupancey the last of this week. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/knox/newspapers/sixtycas221gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb