If three-year-old Edward Lorenzo Decker’s parents picked up the Deseret News on the day he died, they would have seen an editorial warning local parents, “Summer Diseases—Take Care of the Children.” .. “The warm weather seems to have fairly set in,” wrote the editor, “and as is usual in the summer season, there is considerable talk around of sickness among the children.” The editor named cholera infantum, scarlet fever, and me...
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