Typhoid Scourge Continues – 1901
TYPHOID SCOURGE CONTINUES
Sister’s Hospital Has Received More Than Seventy Cases
Typhoid patients continue to arrive at the local hospitals in increasing numbers, on some days as many as half a dozen being reported. The county generally has been unusually free from the sickness with the exception of the territory along the Coeur d’Alene branch. And even here but two places are affected seriously – Nine Mile and Lothrop. Seventy cases have been cared for at the Sister’s hospital. Of this number nearly fifty have come from the McKean and McQuarrie camp near Nine Mile. The camp seems so seriously disturbed by the disease – fifty of sixty-five men there employed having been ill – that there is considerable agitation over the need of a search to determine the cause of so general an epidemic. Of the cases reported there have been but two deaths – Herbert McQuarrie and Joseph Evoy, both from Nine Mile.
The above article is taken from the Daily Democrat-Messenger Oct 3, 1901