Daily Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa June 2, 1900 The History of Grip The history of "grip" or influenza, can only be traced back, with any certainty, for 300 years. Perhaps its home is in Russia, it retains certain broad characteristics which make it recognizable even under such odd names as the "gentle correction" and the "new delight." A curious description of it under the name of "coqueluche" is found in the diary of Pierre de L'Estolla in the time of Henry III of France as follows: "The Coqueluche at Paris, year 1580.- From the 2d to the 8th day of June there fell sick at Paris 10,000 persons of an illness having the form of a rheum or cattarh, which they call the 'coqueluche.' This illness siezes you with a pain in the head, stomach and loins and a lassitude throughout the body, and it persecuted the whole kingdom of France while the year lasted, so that once having come hardly anybody in a town or village house escaped. "The best remedy the doctors found was to make the sick abstain from wine. To some they ordered bleeding and rhubarb, and others cassia, and finally they found it best to keep the sick in bed and allow them little to eat and drink. They say at Paris that of this 'coqueluche' there were dead at Rome, in less than three months, more than 10,000 persons." June 11, 1900 ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX Mrs. E.B. Lewis Stricken With the Infectious Disease Dr. C.H. Preston was advised late Saturday afternoon by Dr. Rudolph of the existence of a case of pronounced smallpox at Hadlai Heights in the west end of the city. The patient is Mrs. E.B. Lewis, wife of an employe of the Rothschild Elevator company. Mrs. Lewis came here last May 21st and had been treated for a cold. On Thursday and Friday she grew worse and an eruption showed itself which on Saturday Dr. Rudolph diagnosed as the smallpox. Since the residence of the Lewis family stands far aloof from any habitation, on the top of the hill, the health authorities have decided not to remove the patient and those exposed to St. Robert's hospital, but rather to establish the quarantine there. This has been done. Mrs. Lewis has two children. Since there is no smallpox in that locality it is thought that she contracted the disease in route here. June 26, 1900 SMALL POX CASE AGAIN Ed Eldridge, the Printer, the Latest Victim IS A CASE OF VARALOID The Patient Taken to St. Robert's Hospital This Afternoon- Story of the Case. Ed Eldridge, printer, was this afternoon discovered to have the smallpox of a pretty pronounced type. He was feeling ill this afternoon and interviewed Dr. Ed. Bowman for treatment. As soon as Dr. Bowman saw him he knew that it was a case of smallpox. He telephoned to Dr. Preston, who at once pronounced the case one of smallpox. This was about 1:30 o'clock. Eldridge was sent to the vacant place on Perry street, beyond Third to await the coming of the Black Maria. He was taken to the pest house, or St. Robert's hospital. Health Officer Jessen commenced an investigation this afternoon. Another Case Hannah Walker, who was employed as a domestic in the Lewis home at the time the smallpox broke out there, and who was quarantined along with the others in the family, today showed pronounced symptoms of an attack of that disease. She has not been where she could have been exposed to the disease since she was quarantined and she has not been in a position to cause others to be exposed. June 27, 1900 SMALL POX SCARE Iceman Works All Day After Having Broken Out With Disease MANY ARE VACCINATED City Physician Anticipates No Further Spread of the Disease at Present How would you like to be the iceman? That is, the iceman, who had the smallpox yesterday that went around delivering the crystal while he was broken out? The iceman is not in a dangerous condition nor is he scared, but there are a few people who have been getting ice from No. 2 of the Davenport Ice company, who wish the driver had not been afflicted with the disease. It all happened in this way. Ed Eldridge, who was taken to the pest house yesterday, said he had a "pal", whose name was William Klabiker, who was broken out with smallpox, or at least with the same disease he had, and that he was delivering ice. The health officer, to whom he told the story, at once set out to look for wagon No. 2 of the Davenport Ice company, but he did not find the man till evening at the close of the day's business. The man was then taken to the pest house. Ernst Moeller's Story Ernst Moeller is the driver of wagon No. 2 of the Davenport Ice company, of which Nic Albrecht and John Henzelmann are the proprietors. He said to a Times reporter this morning: "I did not know the man's name, although he worked for three weeks with me. He came from Peoria. His neck, all under the chin and under his ears was broken out, and he thought it was from poisoning from a cheap shirt. I thought it was the barbers' itch. Yesterday it was much better than it was the day before, and it was only last night that he was taken out to the pest house." The Route of Wagon No. 2 The route of wagon No. 2 is principally in the saloon and German boarding house district of this city. Few believed that the iceman had the smallpox along the beat of the wagon to which he was attached, and it is thought that a cheap shirt worn by him, and which lost its color through perspiration, coupled with a closely shaven neck, was chiefly responsible for the eruption whcih is alleged was not pistular. What Health Inspector Says. Health Inspector Jessen says that the man has been vaccinated, it not being though that he had a case of smallpox. "If the vaccination takes," said he, "we will have sufficient proof that he has not the smallpox." The police do not like the statement of the press to the effect that the police patrol, or ambulance, was used to take Ed Eldridge, the smallpox victim, to the pest house. The patrol was not used for such a purpose. Health Officer Jessen said that this afternoon that the man came from Joliet and not from Peoria, as Ernest Moeller stated. He also said that as soon as the vaccination proves to be effective, which will be in a week, the man will be released. A Local Scare. Over in the Democrat office where Ed Eldridge spent some of his time at work or loafing, there were a number of men who thought they might have been exposed to the disease and all were vaccinated this morning. Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm