Transcribed & submitted by Bunny Freeman


Smallpox epidemic with names mentioned in these counties: Kaufman, Navarro,  Hunt, Harrison
 
The Dallas Morning News
March 10 1900
SMALLPOX

Three Cases at Athens.
 
Athens, Tex., March 9 -- Three well-developed cases of smallpox were discovered in the cars 
of the steel-laying gang yesterday on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad at Stockard, eight 
miles west of here.  There are about seventy-five negroes in this gang employed in laying 
track, two of which have smallpox.  The foreman of the gang, a white man, has a well-developed 
case also.  When it was reported in camp that smallpox had broken out, the negroes scattered 
in every direction, but the officers report this morning that they have succeeded in capturing 
about fifty of them, who will be held in detention camps for further development.
 
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To Remove Infected People.

Terrell, Tex., March 9 -- There was a special session of the Commissioners' Court at Kaufman 
today to take action on the reported cases of smallpox at Mabank, below Kemp, this county.  
Dr. F S White of this place, who is the County Physician, gave instructions to place the 
parties afflicted in a pesthouse, and suggested that the Texas New Orleans Railroad officials 
be notified to remove the cases off the line of the railroad, so as to prevent the necessity 
of quarantine regulations being established.
 
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Case Reported Near Dawson.
 
Corsicana, Tex., March 9 -- A case of smallpox, or a case of sickness said to be well-developed 
smallpox, on the B J Williams ranch, near Dawson, in this county, was reported to County Health 
Officer Pannill today, and he will investigate it at once.  The patient is reported to be a 
white man.
 
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Released from Detention Camp.
 
Greenville, Tex., March 9 -- J T Bond of this city; who has charge of the smallpox cases at 
Wolfe City, was here yesterday, and says he released nine from the detention camp yesterday.  
He has six more in the pest camp, and says there are no more exposures.  He is certain the 
disease has run its course there.
 
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Georgetown Patient Recovers.

Georgetown, Tex., March 9 -- The negro man who has been under quarantine at Hutto for smallpox, 
has recovered, but his wife has developed an unmistakable case of the disease.
 
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No New Cases at Marshall.
Marshall, Tex., March 9 -- The smallpox situation remains unchanged save that Tom Mays' condition 
is pronounced critical.  The disease is confined among the negroes.