When was it published?

January 12, 1769 in The Virginia Gazette

Domestic News January 12, 1769

The Virginia Gazette

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic, Death Or Funeral

Q: What keywords are associated?

Smallpox Outbreak, Reading Berks, Children Deaths, German Inhabitants, Inoculation, Hot Regimen

Williamsburg, Virginia

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What is this article about?

Smallpox outbreak rages in Reading, Berks County, killing nearly 60 children in less than two months, blamed on German residents' hot-room treatment; inoculation results in mostly mild cases with one death.

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We hear from Reading, in Berks county, that the small pox rages with great violence in that town, having carried off near 60 children in less than two months. The German inhabitants cannot be dissuaded from the pernicious method of keeping the sick in hot stove rooms, under a hot regimen, to which, doubtless, so great a mortality is principally to be attributed. 'Tis much to be lamented, that their prejudices in this particular, and against inoculation, are not removed. Some of the inhabitants got their children inoculated, who mostly had the disorder very light; only one, which had previously taken the infection, dying.

What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic Death Or Funeral

What keywords are associated?

Smallpox Outbreak Reading Berks Children Deaths German Inhabitants Inoculation Hot Regimen

Where did it happen?

Reading, In Berks County

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Reading, In Berks County

Outcome

carried off near 60 children in less than two months; inoculated children mostly had the disorder very light; only one, which had previously taken the infection, dying

Event Details

the small pox rages with great violence in that town... The German inhabitants cannot be dissuaded from the pernicious method of keeping the sick in hot stove rooms, under a hot regimen, to which, doubtless, so great a mortality is principally to be attributed. 'Tis much to be lamented, that their prejudices in this particular, and against inoculation, are not removed. Some of the inhabitants got their children inoculated