OBIT: Infant children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank MAY, 1916, Lower Turkeyfoot, 
Somerset County, PA

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May, Infant

SEVEN CASES DREAD DISEASE - Two Victims of Infantile Paralysis in Somerset 
County Have Died. Seven cases of Infantile Paralysis have developed in Somerset 
County is the statement of County Medical Inspector, Dr. C. P. Large, of this 
place. Two of the cases have proved fatal and the survivors are one, at least, 
will be in all probability a cripple for life having become paralyzed in the 
lower limbs. The two unfortunate little ones who succumbed to the ravages of the 
dread disease were children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank May of near Ursina in Lower 
Turkeyfoot Township. There is a five month old baby in the same home that is 
afflicted with the disease. It will probably recover. Two other cases are at the 
home of Mr. G. G. Groff being children of Rev. Fox, a son-in-law of Mr. Groff of 
Confluence. They have about recovered. Another case is that of a child of Henry 
Dial of near Ursina, and the other case is that of a family living at Cairnbrook 
in Shade Township, in the opposite end of the county from the other cases cited. 
How the disease is conveyed is beyond the knowledge of the medical fraternity. 
All passenger trains on the B. & O. and Western Maryland railroads entering 
Pennsylvania from Maryland are being closely inspected by the State health 
Department, and children under the age of 16 years are being required to undergo 
examination before they are permitted to cross the line into this state.

Meyersdale Commercial, Aug. 17, 1916