Thursday, May 17, 2018

Sickness Unto Death

Salem Academy Students - 1904
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Between May 5 and June 4th - 1857 - eight pupils at the Moravian Academy in Salem died. Measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever occasioned this mortality - in addition 170 beds confined sick students. -- Stats from the Records of the Moravians in North Carolina - Volumn XII.

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