Abbreviations used
Date March 7 1895
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
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.
Infammation of the lungs is epidemic among children at Coles Island. Bliss ANDERSON and Thos. PATTERSON have lost children, aged 7 and 4 respectively and Thos. Patterson has another child dangerously ill. The life of a child of Albert ANDERSON has been saved by the insertion of a silver tube into the lungs.