Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-18
THE SMALLPOX CASES.

Three New Cases Taken to Springstde Farm Yesterday-Two Men Very Sfck-Special Meeting of the Board
 of Health This Evening-A Tent
 Erected on the Hospital Grounds.
 Three new cases of smallpox were dis covered at the hospital yesterday. One of | the victims is Petro Giovanni, an Italian | who was patient in the surgical ward; l another is William Kicks, colored cook, and the other Charles E. Nichols, ward master at the institution. In the afternoon all three were removed to the hospital for contagious diseases at Springside farm. The hospital authorities felt somewhat more alarmed on account of the fact that the Italian was not in that part of the hospital which is quarantined, but in the surgical ward, which is in another part of the building, and which has hitherto been supposed to be free from the oontagion. All those who are now i'll with the dis ease are doing well and appear to have it | in it's ightest form, except Simpson and Callahan. They are both very sick men, | but the disease has not yet reached its height, so that what the result will be in l l judged of. Miss Metoxen, the Sioux In dian nurse who was taken to the hospital for contagious diseases yesterday, is doing | very nicely. Her case seems to be light one. Dr. Flagg's is also a very mild case. Yesterday morning two of the nurses at the hospital voluntarily offered to go out to the hospital for contagious diseases and attend the patients out there. The ladies are Mrs. Bertha G. Bradley and Miss Mary Lewis. It is certainly an act of great self sacrifice, knowing as they do the liability ing the disease. The police guard at the hospital has been increased to fourteen
 men, eight being detailed as night watch
 and six as day watch.
 An isolation tent has been erected in the
 hospital yard, in which all suspects are
 immediately placed It is a warm, com
 modious tent, well adapted to accommo.
 date the wants of those who may have te
 occupy it.
 A meeting of the prudential committed of the hospital was held yesterday after Whitney were present. The committes decided to meet with the board of health which holds special meeting at 10 o'clocl , l this morning.
 The board of education and the board o | health have jointly sent out blanks for tn purpose of ascertaining what children ar I in need of vaccination. It is intended tha
 all children who have not been vaccinatet shall be vaccinated at the expense of tn
 public.
 At the time that smallpox was first dis
 covered on Pratt, the first patient, ther
 were twenty five patients ready to be dis
 charged and sent to their homes. All c
 these have had to remain at the hospital
 They will be kept there until they can b
 discharged with safety. All the cases ths
 have thus far been discovered at tb
 hospital are directly traceable to the fri
 patient Pratt. As to-day is the last day (
 the limit for the disease to make its aI
 pearance as far as exposure to the COT
 tagion from the first patient is concerned
 the authorities are hopeful that the di
 ease has run it's course, and they als
 think that there will be very few ne
 cases. The utmost precaution has bee at taken to keep the disease from spreadin. 70 There are still few patients at the hospit D. under the most rigid scrutiny, ss it n suspected that they may show the diseas 7. There are now ten patients in the pes
 house. The male ward lis nearly full ,an, B. as it is possible that other cases may d
 velop, special preparations and provision g. are being made by the board of health f, t. such contingencies. The board of heal n will at their special meeting this mornir m take special steps in this direction. ct In the event of persons being prostrate a with the disease outside of the hospital, st any such cases appear, they will be ( Id lowed to remain at their homes and the O. receive medical care, but the premises wi al be under strict quarantine.
 s. The prudential committee of the hospit of at their meeting yesterday decided not r. have a special place prepared at the he ae pital for the reception and care of smsllpt r. patients, but will appear at the meeting Id the board of health and advocate the ere
 tion of tents, if necessary, at Springsi
 | farm