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August 12, 1890, page 1
The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, TN
SMALL-POX
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In a Mississippi Town - Great Excitement in the Little Place.
New Orleans, August 11 - A special to the Times-Democrat from Meridian, Miss., says: A great deal of excitement is reported at Hattiesburg, Miss., over an alleged outbreak of small-pox. A little girl arrived there not long ago from Mexico and soon after was taken sick.
Saturday it was decided that she had small-pox, and about sixty people left town at once. Since then, three others have taken sick and all the towns on the Northwestern road have become alarmed.
Several have quarantined against Hattiesburg, the physicians says it is chicken-pox but the idea is not credited and a most stringent quarantine has been in effect in many places.
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