The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

WI W." n'hN NhNlus Aib hAhHlluNN wv hhubo
and reported back TO the health department
mo smallpox A death had actually oc-
,urrcd on the Saturday previous and tho
body buried, The law was invOke1, evidence
produced and tho health deI q tmont ordered
10 act Another death occurred aud thon
Tho house was ordered 10 be fumigRted
After this so,called fumigation seven per-
IONS were taken down with smallpox and at
Iength compelled by tho law and fear of ex-
posure, the health department removed the
patients and Isolated the house aud all who
could not ba removed, In the Casa Of a
manufacturer OF OvercOats on Lagauch0tiere
Itreet, East, u child took the disease and was
removed, Tho work OF making several
hundrol overcoats week went on SO Vigi-
ant were tho cothers that they secured
very coat and had thom Thoroughly disin,
'ectod, Children had been running around
when the FIRST child lay ILL., In ten days tho
mallpox brote out on another child, But
ihe manufacturing Of tho oyercoats went on.
The place never has been properly fumi.
gated II very likely never viii be unless
,ho health department awakos TO son,o Of
ts duty
II the local health authorities are lax the
)ilcers from tho United States aud Ontaria
are not They watch events with vigilance,
Tho w0tchful medical inspectors on tho
trains going out are study Those on the
lines going TO Ontario nra especially systam.
attic A bland young man entors tho car.
A littlitlle yellow ribbon denotes his bust.
aoss before he reaches you, "MolIcal In.
Ipcctorn is the tallsmanic inscription Ho
leans tendcrly over tho car s'at aud saya;
"From Montreal, or only passing throughf'
"From Montreal You are the nsp ,ctor |
&c.,
"YOS Are you going to ontarIor E
"Yea.h
care you yacclEat0dr and hore he com.
nences tc gently stroke your left arm, feel.
ing for tho place, llo docs not feel H.
"Ploaso locate tho spot Was II done ro-
,ontlyr
"YOsn
The spot Is located Ho feels the scar and
satisfied Then bo goes on The ladies
opposite produce their melical certificates
nl no does every ono, Here man takes
)if his coat aud bares his arm, There an.
other man with worry rol face is caught
without vaccination, and after an energetic
whispered conversation no loaycs tho car
with the bland young Doctor who takoa him
into the Pullman car aud vaccinat0s him
As he passol during tho evening no Ia
lskod, "Aro there many unyaccinatodp
and replies, III haYo done nineteen ON this
Tainn
IlO tells me, too, that all tho goods that 20
into Ontario are vaccinat'd--that IN, tho In.
a.. a..I
tree from conta don,N His chiefs office In
Montreal IL continuously visited by Montreal
exporting manufacturers for this purpoo.
II N this stringcnoY that led Montreal NOR
ahanta TO develop such extraordinary indns-
try In having tho disease grapplod with. 10
u true Sir Francis HInchM dod Io was
not vccinntcl. Tho R,v, Mr. Casey, too,
was not wccinotcd, II Is true n journalist
llol, but Ia, was In too weak u state OF
health ~ DO roy0ctinntod Tho dpaths
among tho mercantile class have b'cn Nil,
however, and fw among thDir clorkg or
Blor,mon hnyo dinl, II iB only tho business
dpanltiou 1lugHd that foreu thn merchants
ln puDl, lh0y rnly know moro ubuut
lho con ,iluu ul the disease than lu1 hrulth
authorities Tho c,uthifrt ghirmn,pIs, fur.
ricrs Ond other trodosmon employ their doc.
tors aud thoir dotooty n, who watch their
employees IN ord5r 10 dotoct th'm should
mGllpoS Ur11D, out In th'ir families
A somewhat curious Uuoolul' h. related
among the ylrolnotoT OF n young woman
whose curiosity has oulrun b.r Judgment
She inyptlauto the contents OF ono Of tho
vRCciuOtorB rccnptaclc8 In tho house In
which b1 lodged and whcrOin ah' wNa n scr.
ynnt Thoy woro nicb topthpIc0A, sho
thought 40 phup pointed; n iytlo wide,
perhaps, aud clumsy, Sh, was sung 10 hayO
one, anyway Sno too, ono of th, vaccine
points, which Oro ivory and easily mistakon
tor toothpicM bY q servant who know moth.
Ing OF vaccination, Sh0 picked hor tooth
with the point, Onl before long could not
toll whnt was tho matter with hcr Mother
could anyone else until uho show, the doe.
tor tho toothp.ck llo know thon what ho
had TO dunl With, AMI tho girl viii require
40 oompulB,on l'ow girls yncoinnto thOm.
selves with toDlhpcks In that way,