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Illness Surge and Public Welfare Staff Changes
A month of widespread illness and quarantines tops city health notes, with Spanish influenza and cases of smallpox scarlet fever diphtheria. Public health nurses treated the sick as the Lafayette building lease for the overseer of the poor was cancelled to consolidate staff in the courthouse. The overseer’s salary remains set at 1860 per year, while pension work shifts to assistants. In Cornell Bluffs a man died after a joke gone wrong, leaving a widow and four children near destitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Sporie
Social Welfare League
County Board
KR. XII
Cowin
Lafayette
Cornell Bluffs
Carl Rehan
Rehan
The
Union