Wissink, Carl's dau abt 1900-1906

WISSINK

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 2/6/2014 at 17:41:20

Alton Democrat of June 16, 1906
The little six year old daughter of Carl Wissink just east of town died Tuesday night of scarlet fever. The child had been treated for lung fever by Dr. Scholten though a mistake of diagnosis. Dr. De Bey of Orange City pronounced it scarlet fever when called in consultation. For some unknown reason the case was not then even reported to the board of health for quarantine and the public was thus exposed through a number of people passing in and out.

After one child had died and another recovered the place was disinfected and a public funeral held in the yard Tuesday; the child’s body having first been taken to the cemetery. This makes the fourth child the Wissinks have lost in a tragic manner. Three met violent deaths. It seems that ill luck pursues them. They sure have the sympathy of the community. A number of relatives from Hull and Boyden and Sioux Center attended the funeral. So far but on authentic case of the malady has resulted from the public exposure. The fourteen year old daughter of Herman Scholten three miles northwest of town is critically ill and the place is quarantined. She contracted the malady at the Wissink home.

Miss Sophie Lenssen is also ill at her home in Alton She was working for the Wissinks. It is not sure as yet whether her case is scarlet fever or not.