Press and Propaganda

Changing Attitudes

By August, when there was little chance of white colonists becoming infected, the Colonist began to discuss the disease in more neutral terms.

18 August 1862, p. 3.

Small Pox.--It is rumored that the small pox has again broken out among the Indians in the ravine back of Johnson street, and that two squaws have been attacked with it. A few patients remain at the Indian hospital on the reserve, and an occasional death occurs; but no fear of its spread among the white population is entertained.