Dorsey - Earnest
Earnest F. Dorsey
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, Saturday, Nov 21 1891
Last Saturday the little daughter of Earnest F. Dorsey, the janitor of the central school building was taken with the diphtheria. Information was at once lodged with the school board and that body went into a sunday session next morning. The matter was thoroughly discussed and action promptly taken. All the children of Mr. Dorsey except the afflicted one were sent to the country in order that they might escape the contagion. The sick child will receive every attention during the week and as the case is not an alarming one it is hoped that it will be sufficiently recovered by the end of the week to warrant the removal. In this case the place will be thoroughly fumigated and God willing will be resumed as of yore next Monday morning. This week there was no school at the central building but there was at the Mills, Willson and Lincoln schools. The teachers and pupils of the central building are free to read, gossip, hunt or wade about in the water according to several inclinations. There are a number of cases of diphtheria about the city but so far as learned no very dangerous ones. There have been no deaths as yet and it is to be hoped that the matter will find a close within a week or so. In the meantime parents cannot exercise too much precaution as the weather at present is most dangerous for the exposure of children who have passed several months' confinement in the school room. -- kbz