| Show in gratitude and explanation of the 1 I since hy the blessing of an overruling providence myself and family are again free from that dreadful and dreaded scourge diphtheria I 1 hasten to take this meina of expressing our gratitude to the many kind friends who have sought to lighten our burden by pecuniary assistance kind expressions of sympathy and earnest faith and prayers ours too was a day of thanksgiving for on that day we for the first time assured that the virulent power of the treacherous disease had been broken and conr joy was not a little heightened when basket after basket filled with thanksgiving cheer came and made us feel that though isolated by the adest of barriers we were kindly remembered amidst the rejoicings rejo icings of our friends to none however do we feel more deeply than to our kiad neigh bora mr and mrs joseph jones with four small children two of them suckling babes and sick at that my wife could least of all afford to be stricken down and had not mrs jones a piously offered to care for them during my sickness it is difficult to see liow proverb that god never places greater burdens upon us than he makes us able to boar could have been maintained in our case mr joica who has gained many victories over this invidious foe volunteered to fight the case through which by tho blessings of god he did successfully little did I 1 hink as I 1 observed his relentlessly vigilant treatment that my hastily gained knowledge would BO soon de put to so severe a test as it has been in the case ot my sister who came down a i few days later this case proved to be much moro virulent and deep seated and nothing but the most radical treatment treatment which with lettla doubt would kill a well person saved her life from bay experience I 1 am convinced that aery case of diphtheria starts in to kill and that malignant means simply the disease ahead of the treatment and mild the treatment ahead of the disease moreover I 1 believe the only price of victory over this scoured is eternal unceasing vigilance from the first symptom to which means weeks after the patient is out of bed it seems that the eyes of this demon are ever open to steal a march when the eyes of the nurse are closed so much I 1 have felt to say for the benefit of those who may have to fight this disease in the future Eee arding the cases in my family I 1 must in justice to myself correct borne wrong impressions that got into print some time ago mr lensen of salem was mads to say iu an interview inver view that his daughter caught diphtheria from the fatal case in my hause now when it is known that mise christensen Christen sea did not stay with us but our days in the latter part of july and my inlaw did not take down till september after aisis larson was the mistake will be at once we bad two cases of the then prevalent sors throat so the quarantine physician after repeated and deliberate examinations pronounced them before she came and it was on his recommendation that he haying full knowledge of cheso cases ehe came to work fur us whore misa harris whose case proved fatal waa infected is uncertain she stayed over night in nephi and for a number of days in Spring yUle in both of which places there were cases of alie disease but in any attempt to make connections in these capes th wind which wafts the death germs hither and thit lier must be considered among the deadly in the case of my eister your report stated that she caught the disease while in the domestic employ of mr jonea our neighbor it is true that for days before taking down shi was here taking caie of the babies for tho dear generous girl learning of oar distress came from foslien Gos lien determined to assist us even at the peril of her own life little that she brought the dread disease with tier from that plague stricken town but such must bs the case tor she now tells us she was sick kiili symptom of alie disease from the very first day of her arrival and kept up only by the power of her will thinking it only an throat iud very circumstance made her caad so much the moro malignant N 1 NELSON PROVO dec |
