The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-29
REPORT ON A POX
10 the Commissioners of Silver
Bow County.

BUTTE CITY, N. T., Nov. 26, 1881.
To the Beard Of County Commissioners of
S'lcer Bew County, Montana:
In compliance with your request of
the oath inst. I visited the premises of
Charles Wunderlich, on the line of the
Utah and Northern Railway, in this
county, with a view of aseertaining to
what extent small pox prevailed in that
vicinity.
The history of the disease at Mr..
| Wunderlich's house is about as follows:
On November 18th, an employee of the
place, f. nj. Fiddler, was taken violent
ly i'll. As he had not been absent from
the premises for several months, he was
thought TO have an ordinary fever. On
the fourth ard fifth days of his sickness
a red eruption made its appearance on
his skin, and DIR. Day, of Melrose, was
sent for, who pronounced the eruption
that of small poX. On the 10th day of
November, three days after Fiddler was
taken sick, Mr.. Wundcrlich's youngest
son, William, was taken sick in a SINH
lar manner to that of Fiddler. Both of
these young men had been vaccinated in
their childhood. Fiddler, however, had
a very severe case of modified small poX,
or varioloid, while young Wunderlich's
case was very mild, not more than "A
dozen pustulcs making their appearance
on his person, not II of which ma
tured. These young men have now full
iy recovered.
On the 18th of November, nine days
after the disease first made its appear
ance, Mr.. Charles Wunderlich was
taken sick violently. His eldest son,
Edward, with his wife, who We're living
III the sanc house, were also taken sick
the same day, but very mildly. These
two Young people had been well varci-
mated i'll childhood, still both of them
had all of the fchrile symptoms of small
poN, but neither of them had any pustu-
lar eruption of the skin whatever, and
are now quite we'll. Mr.. Charles Wun-
derlicl, who is is years Old, was vacci
mated when young, but is having II Sc
we're case of varioloid. Yesterday, the
tenth day of his illness, he began to
show a decided improvements and will
no doubt recover.
A MIR. Gossett and his wife, who were
also at the house at the time the disease
made it, appearance, have Il little sol,
six years old, who was attacked on the
2lst inst. This child has always been
delicate, and having never been Vacci-
mated, viii hardly Q This man
and lbs vile have had no symptoms Of
the disease whatever. eschoolmuster
OF that district, with two other persons,
have remained At the house all the time
since tlv disease first made its appear
nnvc, and none of them have had any
symptoms of the disease as yet, and
doubtless will not have.
The above list comprises all the cases
that now exist and that have occurred
in that ncighborhood this ycar-SiN in
all. As far Il, ~isOlNting their house was
concerned, and notifying persons of the
existence OF small poX, Mr.. WundFrlicll
and his family have done the best they
coIld under the circumstances. Since
they were appraised Of the nature of the
disease, they have notified every one
who has approached the house that
small pON existed there. As | alightcd
from the rrain and approached the
place, i'll the first gray dawn of the
morning, | was met ut least ten rods
from the house and notified of this fact.
Those thatar nowsick with small poX