Leonard Dilling
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 12 April 1908, page 15
NEWPORT
The funeral of Leonard Dilling, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Dilling of 112 East Seventh street, whose death was due to tetanus, took place
yesterday morning with services at St Stephen Church.
The case was rather puzzling to the medical attendants. The boy had been vaccinated three weeks before lockjaw developed, but physicians in attendance were unable to trace any connection between the vaccination and the subsequent death. The tetanus germs, although it is admitted that the boy might have scratched the scab off.
There no traces of other sores that might have developed tetanus.