The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-07-13

DEER LODC
T~RouBLoUs TIMES.
h Apprehension Of Small Pox In Deer
Lodge.
About june 18th Lucien W. Voolfolk,
book-keeper in Clark& Lafabie's Bank, at
Deer Lodge, returned from Butte quite i'll
after = days absence, was taken to bed and
last Sunday evening died. He had gone to
Butte about two weeks before. Previous to
this his sister, Miss May Voolfolk, had been
i'll Of what was diagnosed and treated n
chicken DOE, and had recovered. Lucien's
case was diagnosed the same by DR.. Owings
until Thursday evening of last week, when,
symptoms appearing not reconcilable with
that disease, he on Friday morning stated
the case to MI. 8. e. Larabie, brother-in.law
Of Nj. Voolfolk, and asked for q ~consulta-
ton. DR.. Amsden, of Butte, was tele.
graphed for. arrived Friday evening and
pronounced the case small pox. The only
exposure he could have had that is known of
was in his first trip to Butte mentioned, or
that his sister had varioloid, and the only
means known by which she could have con-
tracted that was from . Japanese fan which
her sister had sent her from Boston. Miss
Voolfolk had entirely recovered before her
brother took sick. There were q number of
the symptoms usually accompanying small
pox, among Others the odor, which were alb
sent in Mr.. Woolfolk's case, and there are
| many yet skeptical as to its being small pox,
although DIR. Amsden, who has had charge
of the small pox cases in Butte for years, and
is considered by medical men an expert in
the disease, pronounced it such, and
DR.. Owings, who had not treated . case of
small pox for twenty years, aud has since
examined all authorities available, now be.
lieves it was small pox, Notwithstanding the
absence OF usual symptoms. Mr.. Voolfolk
had not been in good health for several
months, and had been taking proprietary
medicines for liver and other ailments, and
was not in good condition to resist the dis
/ ease
About the time of Mr.. Woolfolk's death,
Mary, the six-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. s. Z. Larabie, was taken i'll, and her
case was also pronounced small pox, although
fortunately in mild form. The little one has
now passed the danger period and will soon
be we'll. The houses of Mrs. Voolfolk and
Mr.. Larabie have been quarantined, Mr.. l..
having fitted up the children's school house
into very comfortable quarters, remaining
constantly at home himself and using the
utmost precautions against any one being
n~~4oA1 <~4-n hso -.1ursnoc r. l. -~n>- 20
Miss May and Lucien Voolfolk, the disease
not being known, many persons were ex-
posed, and this fact has occasioned alarm
until the twelve or fifteen days have passed,
| within which time it must develop If a per.
son had contracted the disease.
There Is, at this writing, no known or sus-
pected case of small pox in Deer Lodge ex-
cept that of Mr.. Larabie's child, as men.
toned. There have been no cases, except
those above noted, and all reports to the
contrary are wholly unfounded. The dread
of the exposures that might have occurred
before the disease was known, occasioned
some alarm, and led q lumber of visitors and
families not exposed to leave town until the
matter was demonstrated. If there shall be
no new cases within a week there need be
no apprehension. The Board Of Health is
now empowered to establish quarantine of
persons aud places, there has been very gen.
eral vaccination of all residents, prisoners in
the Jail and penitentiary, and people are
using all the precautions possible. We have
been among those skeptical as to its being
small pox, but it is best at any rate to act
upon the presumption that it is, use all pre-
on-A:onn~~ - o,,v md -hs1n h4r;u~ for
he best be prepared for the worst. If it
shall prove to be small pox and prevalent, or
if it shall disappear or be isolated, we prom.
Use the truth, as nearly as it can be ascer.
tanned, will appear in the NEW NORTH W EST
each week. m=M @~.w "~. =
DR.. A. II. Mitchell says small pox will die
out of its own accord in hot weather. Its
malignity is in cold weather. The best sue
cess he ever had was with two cases he
treated at McCarty's Bridge in the spring Of
1863, and the patients merely had the shelter
Of trees.
The next cases were at Yam Hill, some
years later, and the first and last near here
was that of Miss May Manning, who con
tracted it at Divide, q number of years ago.
There never was a case in Deer Lodge be
fore.
RThe absence of children from the streets il
noticeable these fine evenings. It don't looh
like Deer Lodge-but it is best.
Physicians concur that treatment in wal
tents at this season is preferable to indoor
treatment.
Some one this week sent US, anonymously
q printed panacea for small pox, but we hav'
inadvertently mislaid it.
US. Marshal r. s. Kelley quarantined thu
penitentiary Monday. No visitors are ad
mitted, and Warden McTague and his doze'
deputies keep within the enclosure.
The cases of the Hauswirth children, il
Butte some months ago, was believed to hav'
been taken from a scarf sent one of then
from California. Small pox is an energetic
and tenacious p%estilence. One instance !
known where the disease reappeared Of
shipboard from a carpenters chest that ha'
not been opened for twelve years.
Mr.. O'Bannon's children, who were ex-
posed at Mrs. Woolfolk's until the case wa
pronounced small pox, were v~accinated ira
mediately after and the vaccination ha
taken. Mr.. O'Bannon raises the query hov
this can be if the disease was small pox.
The apprehension that prevailed fer a da.
or two has almost wholly subsidized.