Mrs. Johnson (1882)

JOHNSON

Posted By: Renee Rimmert (email)
Date: 2/18/2021 at 12:23:40

Centerville Times
Wednesday, April 12, 1882
page 3

Mrs. Johnson, the small-pox patient, died Friday morning and was buried that night. The case was a bad one of confluent small-pox and the doctors held out but little hopes of recovery from the start, as there were other bad complications in the case. Just where she contracted the disease is hard to determine, but as nearly as we can get at it is that one of the attendants on the the former case - Mrs. Plants - thinking it a pity to burn so many good bed clothes, secreted some of them in the barn intending to wash and disinfect them. It seems that J.J. Pratt who had recently vacated the premises had occasion to go back to the barn for something left there and contracted varioloid from the clothes there, but of so light a character as not to be supposed to be contagious, and Mrs. Johnson is supposed to have taken it from him. We do not vouch for the authenticity of the story as it is extremely hard to get the straight of any kind. Even doctors, if they know, cannot bet depended on to tell the true state of affairs. No other cases so far have developed, there has been no excitement over the matter and business has not been affected by it.

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