VICTIMS OF A SCOURGE.
Frightful Savages of Diphtheria in Zanesville, O. -
Sixteen Deaths from the Dread Disease -
Many Persons Sick -
How the Epidemic Originated.
ZANESVILLE, O., March 11. -
Diphtheria seems to lurk in the air one breathes, at least in a part of this interesting city. That dread disease is creating sad havoc in the ranks of the children. It has become quite an epidemic. Forty-five cases are reported to the Board of Health, and of that number sixteen have died. With the exception of three cases all those ill or who have died are residents of what was until recently known as the village of Putnam, but which section now forms the Ninth Ward of Zanesville.
The introduction of the disease in its dreadful form dates back to the night of Sunday, December 8. On that night about 10 o'clock Undertaker George W. Brenholtz removed the body of Ethel C. Tuttle from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station to the home of Thomas Gibbons, a traveling salesman who lives with his family on Higham avenue in the Ninth ward. Ethel was the eldest daughter of Harry Tuttle, a brother-in-law of Mr. Gibbons. Her father is also a traveling man, having been for a number of years connected with a firm of this city. He removed with his family to Chicago, however, and it was there that Ethel died. The undertaker gave the body but little attention other than to see it carefully removed to the Gibbons home, from where the funeral was to take place. The next day at noon the undertaker met Health Officer H.T. Sutton, and turned over to him the permit that had accompanied the remains, also the doctor's certificate as to the cause of death. The papers were badly soiled. Dr. Sutton was on his way to his office at the time, and without examining the papers placed them in his inside coat pocket. Brenholtz, who lives just opposite the office, in parting informed the physician that he would call at 9 o'clock that evening for the burial permit. When he called at that hour the papers he had turned over to Dr. Sutton had been mislaid. They could not be found and nothing was left to tell the real cause of the death, even had the permit of the Chicago health commissioner stated just what had caused the taking away of the child. It was afterward learned that Ethel's death was due to diphtheria of the most malignant form. Friends crowded the home where the remains rested all day Monday and Monday night. Since then diphtheria has appeared in the family of almost every person who presented himself there, and has spread out to families who were not present, but who afterward came in contact with those who carried away the disease.
There is no question among the authorities and those in position to know as to the origin of all these deaths. Dr. Sutton, who is one of the brightest physicians in this section, does not hesitate in accrediting all to the bringing to Zanesville of the remains of Ethel Tuttle and the exposing of them to view.
Among the deaths are those of John C. McGregor, reading clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, his wife, his sister, and his three children.
There is a great deal of worriment and no little excitement over the epidemic that has settled down upon so many here. Every day adds other victims, the weather at present being decidedly of an disadvantage to physicians in handling the cases.
Freeborn County Standard; Albert Lea, Minnesota.
March 20, 1890; Page Two.
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Frightful Savages of Diphtheria in Zanesville, O. -
Sixteen Deaths from the Dread Disease -
Many Persons Sick -
How the Epidemic Originated.
ZANESVILLE, O., March 11. -
Diphtheria seems to lurk in the air one breathes, at least in a part of this interesting city. That dread disease is creating sad havoc in the ranks of the children. It has become quite an epidemic. Forty-five cases are reported to the Board of Health, and of that number sixteen have died. With the exception of three cases all those ill or who have died are residents of what was until recently known as the village of Putnam, but which section now forms the Ninth Ward of Zanesville.
The introduction of the disease in its dreadful form dates back to the night of Sunday, December 8. On that night about 10 o'clock Undertaker George W. Brenholtz removed the body of Ethel C. Tuttle from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station to the home of Thomas Gibbons, a traveling salesman who lives with his family on Higham avenue in the Ninth ward. Ethel was the eldest daughter of Harry Tuttle, a brother-in-law of Mr. Gibbons. Her father is also a traveling man, having been for a number of years connected with a firm of this city. He removed with his family to Chicago, however, and it was there that Ethel died. The undertaker gave the body but little attention other than to see it carefully removed to the Gibbons home, from where the funeral was to take place. The next day at noon the undertaker met Health Officer H.T. Sutton, and turned over to him the permit that had accompanied the remains, also the doctor's certificate as to the cause of death. The papers were badly soiled. Dr. Sutton was on his way to his office at the time, and without examining the papers placed them in his inside coat pocket. Brenholtz, who lives just opposite the office, in parting informed the physician that he would call at 9 o'clock that evening for the burial permit. When he called at that hour the papers he had turned over to Dr. Sutton had been mislaid. They could not be found and nothing was left to tell the real cause of the death, even had the permit of the Chicago health commissioner stated just what had caused the taking away of the child. It was afterward learned that Ethel's death was due to diphtheria of the most malignant form. Friends crowded the home where the remains rested all day Monday and Monday night. Since then diphtheria has appeared in the family of almost every person who presented himself there, and has spread out to families who were not present, but who afterward came in contact with those who carried away the disease.
There is no question among the authorities and those in position to know as to the origin of all these deaths. Dr. Sutton, who is one of the brightest physicians in this section, does not hesitate in accrediting all to the bringing to Zanesville of the remains of Ethel Tuttle and the exposing of them to view.
Among the deaths are those of John C. McGregor, reading clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, his wife, his sister, and his three children.
There is a great deal of worriment and no little excitement over the epidemic that has settled down upon so many here. Every day adds other victims, the weather at present being decidedly of an disadvantage to physicians in handling the cases.
Freeborn County Standard; Albert Lea, Minnesota.
March 20, 1890; Page Two.
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VICTIMS OF A SCOURGE.
Frightful Savages of Diphtheria in Zanesville, O. -
Sixteen Deaths from the Dread Disease -
Many Persons Sick -
How the Epidemic Originated.
ZANESVILLE, O., March 11. -
Diphtheria seems to lurk in the air one breathes, at least in a part of this interesting city. That dread disease is creating sad havoc in the ranks of the children. It has become quite an epidemic. Forty-five cases are reported to the Board of Health, and of that number sixteen have died. With the exception of three cases all those ill or who have died are residents of what was until recently known as the village of Putnam, but which section now forms the Ninth Ward of Zanesville.
The introduction of the disease in its dreadful form dates back to the night of Sunday, December 8. On that night about 10 o'clock Undertaker George W. Brenholtz removed the body of Ethel C. Tuttle from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station to the home of Thomas Gibbons, a traveling salesman who lives with his family on Higham avenue in the Ninth ward. Ethel was the eldest daughter of Harry Tuttle, a brother-in-law of Mr. Gibbons. Her father is also a traveling man, having been for a number of years connected with a firm of this city. He removed with his family to Chicago, however, and it was there that Ethel died. The undertaker gave the body but little attention other than to see it carefully removed to the Gibbons home, from where the funeral was to take place. The next day at noon the undertaker met Health Officer H.T. Sutton, and turned over to him the permit that had accompanied the remains, also the doctor's certificate as to the cause of death. The papers were badly soiled. Dr. Sutton was on his way to his office at the time, and without examining the papers placed them in his inside coat pocket. Brenholtz, who lives just opposite the office, in parting informed the physician that he would call at 9 o'clock that evening for the burial permit. When he called at that hour the papers he had turned over to Dr. Sutton had been mislaid. They could not be found and nothing was left to tell the real cause of the death, even had the permit of the Chicago health commissioner stated just what had caused the taking away of the child. It was afterward learned that Ethel's death was due to diphtheria of the most malignant form. Friends crowded the home where the remains rested all day Monday and Monday night. Since then diphtheria has appeared in the family of almost every person who presented himself there, and has spread out to families who were not present, but who afterward came in contact with those who carried away the disease.
There is no question among the authorities and those in position to know as to the origin of all these deaths. Dr. Sutton, who is one of the brightest physicians in this section, does not hesitate in accrediting all to the bringing to Zanesville of the remains of Ethel Tuttle and the exposing of them to view.
Among the deaths are those of John C. McGregor, reading clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, his wife, his sister, and his three children.
There is a great deal of worriment and no little excitement over the epidemic that has settled down upon so many here. Every day adds other victims, the weather at present being decidedly of an disadvantage to physicians in handling the cases.
Freeborn County Standard; Albert Lea, Minnesota.
March 20, 1890; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)
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Frightful Savages of Diphtheria in Zanesville, O. -
Sixteen Deaths from the Dread Disease -
Many Persons Sick -
How the Epidemic Originated.
ZANESVILLE, O., March 11. -
Diphtheria seems to lurk in the air one breathes, at least in a part of this interesting city. That dread disease is creating sad havoc in the ranks of the children. It has become quite an epidemic. Forty-five cases are reported to the Board of Health, and of that number sixteen have died. With the exception of three cases all those ill or who have died are residents of what was until recently known as the village of Putnam, but which section now forms the Ninth Ward of Zanesville.
The introduction of the disease in its dreadful form dates back to the night of Sunday, December 8. On that night about 10 o'clock Undertaker George W. Brenholtz removed the body of Ethel C. Tuttle from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station to the home of Thomas Gibbons, a traveling salesman who lives with his family on Higham avenue in the Ninth ward. Ethel was the eldest daughter of Harry Tuttle, a brother-in-law of Mr. Gibbons. Her father is also a traveling man, having been for a number of years connected with a firm of this city. He removed with his family to Chicago, however, and it was there that Ethel died. The undertaker gave the body but little attention other than to see it carefully removed to the Gibbons home, from where the funeral was to take place. The next day at noon the undertaker met Health Officer H.T. Sutton, and turned over to him the permit that had accompanied the remains, also the doctor's certificate as to the cause of death. The papers were badly soiled. Dr. Sutton was on his way to his office at the time, and without examining the papers placed them in his inside coat pocket. Brenholtz, who lives just opposite the office, in parting informed the physician that he would call at 9 o'clock that evening for the burial permit. When he called at that hour the papers he had turned over to Dr. Sutton had been mislaid. They could not be found and nothing was left to tell the real cause of the death, even had the permit of the Chicago health commissioner stated just what had caused the taking away of the child. It was afterward learned that Ethel's death was due to diphtheria of the most malignant form. Friends crowded the home where the remains rested all day Monday and Monday night. Since then diphtheria has appeared in the family of almost every person who presented himself there, and has spread out to families who were not present, but who afterward came in contact with those who carried away the disease.
There is no question among the authorities and those in position to know as to the origin of all these deaths. Dr. Sutton, who is one of the brightest physicians in this section, does not hesitate in accrediting all to the bringing to Zanesville of the remains of Ethel Tuttle and the exposing of them to view.
Among the deaths are those of John C. McGregor, reading clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, his wife, his sister, and his three children.
There is a great deal of worriment and no little excitement over the epidemic that has settled down upon so many here. Every day adds other victims, the weather at present being decidedly of an disadvantage to physicians in handling the cases.
Freeborn County Standard; Albert Lea, Minnesota.
March 20, 1890; Page Two.
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