And it is so.....

I thought as a follow up after all those diagnosis's it might mean more to actually take a trip through, oh, 50 or so years of newspapers and just give us a better insight of what was happening when.

We are going to use the Marshall and Pennington county area as a source.

1894 The city has typhoid

1899 Diphtheria deaths reported

1904 In Mitchell, South Dakota the least sick TB patients are being put in tents for the summer do to over crowding

1904 Spotted Fever reported

1909 Get rid of those germ carrying house flies by closing all the windows and boiling one quarter teaspoon of carbolic acid in a quart of water for five minutes. Raise your windows, what flies aren't dead, will leave. Do this weekly.

1909 I did want to give you the date, July 1909, when the law was passed requiring a death certificate before a body could be buried. That may have accounted for the large number of deaths than previously. Deaths and births have not always previously been reported.

1916 First mention of a tri county sanatorium

1916 Measles and Marbles are the spring combination

1916 Goodridge schools closes because of Scarlet Fever. One dead and three dangerously ill

1916 Sanatorium building to begin soon

1916 Father and son die of pneumonia

1917 Twenty one year old woman dies of TB in train depot waiting for her train home

1917 Previously mentioned, Mrs. Nels Rye ill with typhoid

1917 Previously mentioned, Rev Olaf Anderson dies of week lungs and a throat affection he had for ten years

1918 Mother of eight drops dead of nephritis

1918 Schools closed because of Influenza

Churches and theaters forbidden to open

1918 In October schools remain closed with deaths reported

1918 School will resume the first of November

Doctors continue to say avoid crowds

1920 Milder kind of flu in city. Health department orders against dances as a protective measure.

1920 Recovery from sleeping sickness after the flu

1920 A temporary illness that lasts from a day to two or three, and in which the victim's feel very uncomfortable, unable to eat, or work and vomit frequently is doing a round in the community and especially among the men folk.

1921 Sleeping flu

1921 Tuberculous of the hip

1921 Typhoid fever in Rosewood in May

1921 Cancer of the stomach and a tubercular affliction

1921 Short of breath, man dies in local hotel while waiting for an appointment at a private sanatorium near city

1921 Carl Bloom is ill with an affliction of the chest

1922 Man dies from a leaky heart

1924 Death from TB

1924 Blood poisoning survives

1924 Appendix survives

1925 Heart trouble

1925 Peritonitis and survived

1925 Typhoid Fever

1926 John Bloom dies of TB at 26 years of age

1926 Said he 'ached queerly', doctor dies near railroad yard

1926 Disease of the skin, Emil Mellem survives

1926 Deceased of anemia and complications of lymphatic glands. "He had been failing for some time but the death was unexpected".

1926 Mrs. Alby dies two weeks after birth of baby. Also had the flu, pneumonia, and complications

1926 Thea Nelson dies two weeks after her daughter, Mrs. Alby. She became ill with the flu while staying with her daughter.

1927 Newell Anderson dies due to complications following removal of his appendix

1928 Kari Ranum dies of TB

1935 Cliff Rye has operation for appendicitis and survives

1940 Lloyd Anderson family quarantined three weeks with small pox

1941 Lloyd Anderson has appendix removed and survives

1946 No children allowed in theaters due to polio scare