INFANT DIED OF SMALLPOX

Mother Had the Disease When It Was
Born – First Anderson Fatality.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind., April 9. – The first death from smallpox was reported to-day. The three weeks old child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brown was the unfortunate victim. The mother of the babe was suffering from the disease when the child was born and in two weeks the infant developed a case.

The burial was conducted by the city health officers, under the most rigid sanitary regulations, at a late hour last night. There are but three cases in the city under quarantine, and they are of a very mild character.

“Infant Died of Smallpox,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 10 April 1900, p. 2, col. 4; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 3 February 2015).