Fire, flood or disaster · 06.1888
Smallpox in the Kreenholm mill town
Rõugetõbi Kreenholmi vabrikulinnas
In June 1888 Saarlane reported from Narva that smallpox was raging among the workers of Kreenholm, the huge cotton mill on the island in the Narva river, and taking its victims above all among the children. Some parents had lost every child they had. The mill's own hospital was so full of smallpox patients that a new hospital had to be built just for them. Vaccination against smallpox existed, but it reached workers' families slowly; four years later Postimees was still reporting, as news, sessions in Tallinn's fire station where dozens of children were vaccinated for the first time.
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Eesti keeles
1888. aasta juunis teatas Saarlane Narvast, et rõugetõbi möllab Kreenholmi, Narva jõe saarel asuva hiiglasliku puuvillavabriku töörahva seas ja võtab ohvreid eelkõige laste hulgast. Mõnel vanemal olid kõik lapsed hauda viidud. Vabriku oma haigla oli rõugehaigeid nii täis, et ainult neile tuli ehitada uus haigla. Kaitserõuged olid olemas, kuid jõudsid tööliste peredeni aeglaselt; neli aastat hiljem teatas Postimees ikka veel uudisena, et Tallinna pritsimajas pandi kümnetele lastele esimest korda rõugeid.