The Ouachita Telegraph - Swamp Fever, Diptheria in Delta

Date: May 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, November 20, 1874
Page 2, Column 2

 We gather the following items from the Delta Journal of Tuesday:
 A laborer on the Railroad, sick with swamp fever, while being conveyed
to the Vicksburg hospital, died on the train, Saturday, before reaching
Delta.
 Diphtheria is prevalent to an alarming extent among the young people of
our parish.  We were told of two deaths in one family on the Hesperia
Plantation, last week.

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