Scarlet Fever Scare Grips White Bluffs Schools
A health investigation clears the schools of a widespread outbreak, leaving only two families under quarantine.
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The county health officer who was in White Bluffs the first of the week on request of the school board, after visiting all the homes where there were sick children, said that with the possible exception of one child at the C. R. Barton home and another at the J. L. Holecek home, there was no scarlet fever here. The Barton boy and Holecek girl are being kept at home and the schools were not closed.
“The Barton boy and Holecek girl are being kept at home and the schools were not closed.”
Public health scares in small communities are as old as the towns themselves, and this 1924 report reflects the same tension between school operations and local contagion that remains a primary concern for residents today.
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