Brown - Edith
EDITH BROWN
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 14 April 1888 p 3
Edith, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Brown, died at her home on west Wabash avenue Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock of measles and typhoid malarial fever, aged 14 years. The funeral services occurred at the family residence Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock, Rev. JP Ewing officiating. Interment at the Waynetown cemetery. The family have the sympathy of the community in this, their greatest bereavement.
--- Note in the same paper/page there is this article – Dr. E.H. Cowan, County Health Officer, furnishes The Journal the following statistics for the county for the quarter ending March 31. Measles seems to have been the prevailing disease, showing the county has had 943 cases of this contagious disease, with probably 300 cases not reported, where a physician was not called. From the city the number of cases reported is 730, and from the county at large 240. This number is reported at the Health Office by attending physicians. The total of cases of scarletina in the county for the quarter number 60; diphtheria is 8; typhoid fever 8. In the month of March alone 625 cases of measles were reported. The births and deaths for the city during the quarter are as follows; Births – January, 12; February 8; March 15; total 34. Deaths – January, 6; February 7; March 20; total 33. For the county at large: Births, January 52; February 36; March 37; total 125. Deaths – January 20; February 21; March 22; total 63. The total number of marriages in the county during the quarter was 56 as follows: January, 19; February 16; March 21.