Smallpox; Bakerton & Jeff. Co.

p. 998-999
West Virginia– Jefferson County and Vicinity.

Asst. Surg. Hasseltine, of the Public Health Service, detailed to confer with the Jefferson County (W. Va.) Board of Health concerning the recent occurrence of smallpox in that county, reported May 12, 1913, that the first case of the disease was discovred at Bakerton January 8, 1913, diagnosis confirmed January 9, in a colored man who came from Martinsburg about January 1, 1913; that several other cases developed at Bakerton, and as soon as it became known that smallpox was present some of the negroes left Bakerton and later developed the disease at other places, so establishing additional foci; that the disease was of extremely mild type, and that many of the patients had never been vaccinated. No deaths were reported. Cases were known to have occurred as follows: Bakerton 12, Kearneysville 10, Leetown 1, Middleway 5, Kabletown 2, Millville 2, Keller 3, Duffields 1, vicinity of Shepherdstown 1, Charlestown 15, vicinity of Charlestown 3, Halltown and vicinity 34, Harpers Ferry 7, Bolivar 13.