St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-23
GENUINE SMALLPOX.
A Case Discovered in a Crowded Work
inyman's Boarding House in
Minneapolis.
UTMOST PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
The Place Guaranteed and the 200
Persons Vaccinated-- Prompt ?
Action.

The supposed case of smallpox at the
Chicago House, l20 First street north,
reported in yesterdays GLOBE, turns
out to be genuine. The patient was
removed at an early hour yesterday
morning to the pest house, and
the utmost precautions have been taken
to prevent the terrible malady from
spreading. Health Officer Kilvihgt0n
was informed at o'clock Saturday
night that a young man was sick at the
Chicago house with a disease that Looked
suspiciously like smallpox. In COM
pany with DIR. Freeman i he
paid visit to the place
and there found Henry Ryan. twenty
one years old, suffering from what
Semi-cOnt1uent smallpox, well marked
in the papulOus stage, with a hemor-
rhagic tendency. Five other persons
We're III the room at the time, and it
appeared that persons had been passing
in and out of the room without
hindrance. The police were quietly
summoned and all persons were COM
PEELED to remain in the house and those
coming in afterwards were detained,
making twenty-eight in all. 1t was
also aScertained that four other persons
residing in East Minneapolis had been
directly exposed, and these were
put over them. Two others
who had been exposed were traced, one
to st. Cloud and the other to MankatO.
The man at st. Cloud was found yeSter-
day by the health officer there and
quarantined, and word was received
from Mankato last night that the man
there had been found and would be
guarded.
The physicians remained at the house
all night and had vaccinated over 220
persons in ali by yesterday noon. DR..
Gibson. of the board OF health. signitied
his willingness to take personal charge
of the case. and will abandon his other
practice in the mean time. DR.. AmeS
also examined the case and rendered
assistance. The greatest care
possible has been taken to
prevent contagion. The season of the
year, the location of the house in which
the case was found and the number of
persons exposed combine TO occasion
some little alarm, but the prompt action
taken will probably prevent an cpl
demic.
The Chicago house is one of num-
Der of cheap boarding houses in VEIN
ity in which day labOrerS and transient
men of the poorest classes have their
abode. Nine sanitary police have been
stationed to guard the premises day and
night, twenty-eight persons being con-
fined to the house, nine of whom are
men who have been employed on the
suspension bridge. -Four sanitary
police have also been placed
on duty at the house in East Minneap-
oils, where four persons are quaran-
tined. The period of enforced cor6ne-
ment will probably be from ten days TO
two weeks, according to circumstances.
Ryan'S effects were carefully packed
up and removed to the pest house when
he was taken there, and the room
he occupied and the entire houses will
be carefully fumigated to-day with
sulphur. His home is at WabaShaj this
state, but he was employed at Dubuque
during the summer. Returning to
Wabash, in the winter, he came to Min
here since. He had enjoyed good health
until taken sick, and had not been. ex-.
posed to smallpox that he knew Of.aIfe
bought a pair of pants at a secondhand
store Oh Fourth street recently, and it
is thought he caught the disease fromi
wearing them. - ~ zsss.i.
Health Officer Kilvingten saids last
night: 81 do not think there is ocesa-
sion for much anxiety, owing to- the
precautions that have been taken
Still, i would advise all persons to. be
vaccinated. The city physician is at
the health Office in the city hall from 10
to IL a. m. and from to p. m. each
day, and all desiring can be vaccinated
gratis with the best of bovine virus OBJ
tainable''