Lewis Earl Rase

Jaundice-Type Disease Fatal

Article taken from The Mansfield News Journal, October 16, 1958

Columbus, OH AP

The first human death in two years in Ohio from a jaundice-type disease usually transmitted by animals was reported by the State Health Department.

The victim of the disease (leptospirosis) was Lewis Earl Rase, 53, or Minford, Scioto County.  He died September 22 in Mercy Hospital, Portsmouth.

The disease had been suspected at the time, and it was confirmed in blood tests at the State Health Department laboratory in Columbus.