Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 38
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 2, 1907
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The Diphtheria Situation.
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       The situation with regard to the diphtheria gives no cause for alarm, as yet, but calls for every precaution that can be taken to prevent a further spread.
       There are now three cases under quarantine of the health officer and city marshal.  One case at the house of Lawrence, near Butler's store; one at F. J. Moreno's in the same block and one at Warhol's in the northeast part of town.
       The report, persistently circuated, (sic) that were were a number of cases at the Washington hotel is an error.  There is not ahs not been a case of diphtheria at that place.  There are a number of cases of dengue there.  The patients are grown persons and no children are sick at that place.
       There was some decrease in the attendance at the schools today as the result of th scare.  Unless new cases develop this will pass away in a few days.

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