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Smallpox in Jacksonville

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...In December 1868, Jacksonville, Oregon, battled an outbreak of deadly smallpox. A Board of Health wascreated to enforce traditional measures of responding to epidemics. A pest house at Kanaka Flat

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Craig Stillwell