The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1883-06-22
DEATHS BY MONTHS,


aa.fa 20 81 II
At present there is but one case in the
hos pital and one IA Browntown.
The above includes those brought to the
hospital from Newark and from Webbtown,
and all throughout the county. The 800
cases reported and recorded were from the
city. ana Jk
The following will show how smallpox
was treated in Atlanta, Ca On April s,
1882, a'negro who lived in a notorious re-
sorcihadithe smallpox, girl OF but IA years,
who bad never been vaecinated.
Il was discovered that she contracted
the disease from infected wearing APP
parel belonging to An inmate of The
house who had recently arrived from Chat
tanooga, where the disease was then pre-
waiting. THIS case was sent 70 the hospital
at oree and the next day i'll the inmates Of
house, 10 in number, alter thorough vacci
nation were taken TO the quarantine station
outside of the city, and near the small .pox
hospital The first case died April 8, the
next case occurred April 16--a negro woman
who was visitor at the place where the first
case was discovered. She was also sent TO
the hospital. On tie nth four other cases
were reported from different parts of the
city, but all were traceable 10 the original
case. Twenty one cases were reported from
April IS to May 5, on which day IL persons,
all negroes, were sent to the hospital with
fully developed small pox. The daily aver
age then decli ed, and the last case, of that
outbreak, was sent TO the hospital July A.
The total number of cases treated In the hos
pita from April toJuly 20 was ITO; white,
l; black, 100; of which number "A, or 40 per
cent, died. In addition to the cases above
reported, six cases, four white and two
natr aA .s.l., Al
and maintained, at their own expense, the
quarantine prescribed by the Board Of
Health. or this number two died, both
white, and four recovered. The number of
persons admitted to quarantine was 223,
among which about SO cases of variploid de-
veloped, none of which proved fatal. These
persons had been more or less exposed to
the smallpox infection. They were vacci-
mated upon admission to quarantine, and at
ford practical illustration OF the undoubted
utility of the process as a protective measure
against the disease. Out of the total num-
Der of persons of all ages aud bodily eondi-
tions who were confined at the quarantine
station, covering period of three months
and a half, only two died, one from conges-
ton of the brain and one from cholera NOR
bus. But to return to the outbreak of the
disease. When the first case appeared the
Board of Health hoped very much that by
the adoption of prompts and radical measures,
the calamity of an epidemic and the resulting
evils and losses might be averted, conse.
quently a recommendation to burn the
building in which the case developed was
made to the City Council. The place was
nuisance, apart from the existing emer.
gency, and owing to the construction of the
building its satisfactory fumigation was
thought to Oe impossible. The Board fur
ther recommended liberal appropriation
to enable 1t to institute energetic measures
for the prompt suppression of the disease.
Recognizing the Importance of vaccina-
ton and re-vaccination, and the fact that
it alone could afford adequate protection
against the existing aud any subsequent
outbreak of smallpox, the Board caused
six offices for free vaccination to be opened
in different parts of the city, and placed
them in charge of competent physicians.
These offices were kept open as long as peo-
pie awaited themselves of them, and
when they were finally closed, the compul-
sorry vaccination ordinance, upon the re-
commentator of this Board, was passed,
and 10 physicians accompanied by suffi-
cient number of police officers, made
thorough and systematic inspection of the
whole city, vaccinating by force when found
necessary all unprotected persons. The cost
OF all this work was about S25 600. The total
number vaccinated by the agents OF the
Board was 2f, 1856. The disease was stamped
out and it took money to do 1t. No non
sense was INDUCED in, but every man did
his duty. Men who look after the business
interests of city and protect their mer-
chants are the kind Of men wanted here. A
Board of Health must be supported with
cash In order to accomplish anything.
E. B. FRAZER.
WILMINGTON, June 81.