Abstract
Cleveland, Ohio, April 1,1895. To the Editor: —Permit me to submit for the columns of Public Health in the Journal the following item: An outbreak of diphtheria has recently occurred in the Summit County Children's Home at Akron, Ohio. Dr. L. S. Ebright, physician in charge of the Home, and Health Officer of Akron, diagnosed and isolated the first case March 21. This boy recovered after a severe illness of a week's duration. March 27 another boy was taken sick, and the next day the disease appeared in three girls. The Home contains sixty children varying in age from 2 years to 15 years, and fifteen attendants. March 30, after making a preliminary bacteriologic examination of one of the cases, I went to the Home with Dr. Ebright and administered the antitoxin obtained from our (Wooster Medical College) diphtheria-immune horse. The boy who had been sick three days was dying
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