” ‘I am having much trouble I can assure you—malarial fevers and whooping-cough prevailing.’

August 9th—’ Yesterday I visited the Bryant Willis place, about 3 miles from town, and found a case of small-pox. The case, Mattie Ware, left her house two weeks ago last Wednesday, and went to Oak Ridge, about IS miles distant, to her brother in-law. I cannot ascertain the name of the place at Oak Ridge from her. She was brought back last Saturday, and was in the 9th day of the eruption when I saw her. She is in an isolated spot, and her mother, who has had the disease, and husband, who has not, in the house with her.’ ”

Reference Data:

Biennail Report of the Departments and Benevolent Institutions of the State of Mississippi, by Mississippi, 1884, page 109