Tues. Cold & Fair Went to Mrs. Doane's
Sewed in A.M. Diptheria in town. Florrie Moore from May's grade. Keeping May home until it is broken up. Went to Musicale at J.T. Slack's with E. in Eve. Very swell.
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Transcription of a 1915 - 1919 diary written by my husband's grandmother Ada May (Grimshaw) Illingworth who lived in Springfield, Vermont.
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It's hard for us to imagine how horrible a diptheria epidemic must have been. I remember quarantine signs for measles and scarlet fever and mumps--did they do that in England?
ReplyDeleteHow frightening that must have been. I remember the polio scare and getting my polio shot in the 60's. The H1N1 seems mild in contrast to some of these other dread diseases.
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