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Diphtheria Ravages Maine

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 6, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 23.

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Diphtheria Ravages Maine

THE diphtheria is making fearful ravages in some portions of Maine. In the town of Knox, Mr. Blanchard has buried his wife and five children within three weeks. In Patten, forty families have suffered bereavement from this cause. Three have lost all their children, one has lost five, and twelve have lost three each, and about half of the forty families have lost two each, over one hundred in all. One in eleven of the whole population has died, mostly children and youth.