No date or source noted, from an unidentified scrapbook of clippings titled COLLECTION OF LOCAL MONROE COUNTY OBITS donated to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. CHILDREN OF ONE FAMILY DEAD, DYING AND ILL OF MENINGITIS Two children are dead, a third is not expected to live, a fourth is very ill, and many more have been exposed to cerebro-spinal meningitis in Polk Township, southeastern part of Monroe County near the Brown County line, according to word received today by County Health Officer Dr. J. E. Luzadder. Dorothy, age 7, and Dora, age 5, children of Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Axsom, died Tuesday after an illness of less than a day with the dread disease. Dorval, age 9, another daughter, was not expected to live at noon today, and Delpha, age 13, a fourth daughter, is a little improved after an illness of two weeks. There are seven children in the Axsom family but the other three are not ill. Children attending the Axsom School just across the line in Brown County, have been exposed. Because the school is in Brown County, fumigation of the building will be done by Brown County officials, but Gilbert Luzadder, deputy health officer of this county, has gone to the Axsom home and will remain in that community until tomorrow, as long as it takes to fumigate that home and others nearby where the children have been exposed. The news was brought to Dr. Luzadder by R. Deckard, teacher in the Axsom School. The two children who died attended school Monday and became ill that evening, one of them refusing to eat any supper. They soon developed a high fever, accompanied by serious cramps and other symptoms of meningitis, and died in less than 24 hours. Dorval, not expected to live, was at school Tuesday. Delpha, the sister who has been ill for two weeks and who is a little better today, was thought to have typhoid fever by the two physicians from Brown County who attended her. One of the two doctors has stated that the disease that caused the death of the two girls was spinal meningitis; the other has made no statement.