Leonard Williams, 34, tool dresser, helped in an attempt to rescue Joseph H. Crisp, 23, laborer, from epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, Nowata, Oklahoma, January 15, 1913. Crisp, who lived in a bunkhouse in an oil field, was stricken with cerebrospinal meningitis, which was epidemic in the community and had resulted fatally in most cases. When all the other inmates of the bunkhouse had refused to stay with Crisp and had fled, Williams, who was barely acquainted with Crisp, agreed to nurse him. There was no serum with which to inoculate Williams. Efforts to induce some person in the community to relieve him were futile, and Williams attended Crisp constantly for 36 hours. Then assistance came, but Crisp died about an hour later. Williams did not contract the disease. 9960-1188
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