Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-17
THE SMALLPOX PATIENTS.

All are Getting Along Fairly Well-
 Two More New Cases Developed-No
 Cases Contracted Outside the Hos-
 pital.
 Yesterday two more cases of smallpox were reported at the hospital. The victim in one case is Frederick Simpson of this city, who has been at the hospital several weeks on account of leg which was crushed by the cars at New Rochelle. The leg has been amputated since he has been at the hospital. Yesterday morning the symptoms he developed were so well de- fined that he was taken to the hospital for contagious diseases. Dr. Flagg's case also had developed to such an extent that he was also taken to the same place, Miss Metoxen, one of the night nurses | in the Bronson ward, where Pratt, the first l case, was confined, and who waited upon him part of the time, has been under close
 surveillance for two or three days, and her case has developed into an unmistaka-
 ble case of varioloid. She will be removed
 to the hospital for contagious diseases this morning. She is full-blooded Sioux In- l disn, and an experienced and very intelli- | gent nurse.
 | There is some consternation among the stu dents or the medical college About forty of
 them an o attended the autopsy performed on the
 %formed that while in the hospital he q occupied | the next bed to Charles W. Pratt, who afterward was attacked with smallpox. The boys have all | been vaccinated.
 out the city and the physicians that it is very l scarce here. There is not at present enough to go around.
 Dr. DeForest began Tuesday vaccinatipg the two hundred odd inmates of the almshouse, and | the work was continued yesterday.
 | Tho strictest kind of quarantine is being main
 tained about the hospital grounds and no one mas been allowed to get anywhere near the build | ings except the health authooites.
 | Yesterday morning man named James Sulli- | van was caugne by Ohcer Clancy while attempt
 ing, as It was thought, to steal some food from | the buildings He was taken before Superin-
 tendent Starkweather, but as the latter could not
 appear against him if he arrested, as it l some food for his wife, Sullivan was allowed to go.
 The cases which are already isolated do not appear to be very critical and it is not expected ! that any of them will die. Every precaution was taken in the burial of Malvina Gibson to prevent
 wrapped in blanket and quick lime put inside. ! The body was wrapped up in g sheet which had
 sublimate It was then put into casket and the
 casket GOV, red with rubber sheet. The body
 vas vas then remnved @ to the Westviile cemetery and \ Health Officer Wright when questioned yester l day about how contagious smallpox is said | IS courageous believe only by direct
 contact with the patient or his clothing. I don't l believe that if went into room where a pa
 tient was lying, quietly walked about and came | out without touching anything, that I would
 catch the disease If the patient had bsen brnsh
 ing or picking some of the scales off from him | floating in the airI certainly would be exposed
 to it. But under the ordinary circumstances | don thlnk there is any actual dabgerr
 Callahan, one of the patients at the pesthouse
 at Sprlngs!de, was last night reported as very
 loT. . and an his recovery is very doubtful. The
 that Pratt will be well enough to be discbaI ged
 that little fear need be entertained as to an epi | demic. Arrangements have been made at the | thirty patients, if necessary Several more
 nurses have been secure1 and everything is in
 The principals o1 the different schools met al
 Superintendent Curtis office yesterday and the | matter ot sending out blanks to the parents of
 pupils asking when, if ever, their children had ! been vaccInated was discussed, but no action
 was taken. Principal Thomas has already sent | to day. '"' -s | SIX CASES IN BIRMINGHAM-A BARN CONVERTED INTO PEsrHoUsE.
 | BIRMINGHAM, Nov 16.-fSpecial. ]-There were
 two more cases discovered yesterday They are | Mlchael Hurley and James Brennan. There are l now si1 fully developed cases in this place and ! they all were taken ill in private houses. It is | feared this will entail serious consequences, as | many have thus been exposed. Every doctor in ! the town has been appointed on the board of
 health, and all the school children are being vac | cinated. The health authorities have secured a barn | near the New Haven turnpike to be used as a resthouse. To this place all cases will be re I of all the cases. | How the disease frat came here is not known, | put It IS said that the first man who was taken | brought load of furniture from New Haven. | Another theory, and one which meets with
 more adherents, attributes the origin of the dis | ease to another source Callahan, the man who was the first to show the dEsease after Pratt in l the New Haven hospital, is Ansonia man and may have been visited by friends from this place source of the disease, however is not at present