MEYER, AUGUSTA nee Steege (1880-1905)

MEYER, STEEGE

Posted By: Linda Hagedorn Finley (email)
Date: 8/10/2012 at 08:17:30

Waterloo Daily Reporter, Tuesday, May 23, 1905, Waterloo, Iowa

DEATH FROM SCARLET FEVER

Mother of Five Days Old Baby Dead-
Disease Appeared 2 Days After Birth

WAVERLY - Mrs. John Meyer died at her home in the fourth ward of this city yesterday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock of scarlet fever. About five days ago Mrs. Meyer gave birth to a baby girl, and three days later the first symptoms of scarlet fever became manifest. The disease developed so rapidly that in less than forty-eight hours from the inception of the disease the patient was dead.

Dr. W. A. Rohlp, the attending physician, pronounces it is one of the most virulent cases of scarlet fever that he has ever known. There has not been a case of scarlet fever in Waverly for several months and the physicians are at a loss to know how to account for this sudden outbreak.

Deceased was the wife of John Meyer, who has been teller of the Waverly Savings Bank ever since its organization. She was the daughter of Henry Steege, and granddaughter of William Steege, one of the wealthiest residents of Waverly. She was about 24 years of age and leeaves besides the infant another babe aged about two years.