Abbreviations used
Date July 26 1888
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Grand Falls (Victoria Co.) July 24 - Diphtheria has broken out here in a family by the name of POITRAS. One of the children died this afternoon.