The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
A SEMI-QUARANTINE.
Close Watch on Trains From
Snohomish County.
GREATER DANGER ABOUT NOV. IS
Then Every Man VIII Have to Be Vac
cinated-Smailpox Situation All
Over the Northwest.

| At a meeting of the board of health yes
| terday the health officer was authorized
| and instructed to stop all trains coming
| from Snohomish county at the King
| county boundary line on and after Novem-
/ Der Is. and examine and vaccinate all men
| coming from the mining and railroad
| camps and to quarantine all suspected
| cases. This date was set because the rail-
| road camps will commence breaking up at
| that time and laborers will commence
t1ocking to the cities by the hundreds.
The quarantine house for the detention
| and isolation Of suspected cases. which
was stopped by injunction proceedings.
| has been relocated and work on it has been
begun.
A letter was received from Mayor Rom
| aid calling attention of the board of health
to the failure of the health officer to notify
the authorities of Vancouver and New
Westminster of the status of smallpox in
this city. DR.. Eames, the health officer,
said in explanation that he had notified
the British Columbia people as per instruc-
tons several times. but that for the last
few days had purposely been emitting to
do so. since he supposed that the authori-
ties in question would see the statements
published in the Seattle papers. which
were truthful, and therefore he thought
sufficient. He sent two kilograms yester-
day. however, in Difference to the mayors
letter. The following dispatch was received
by the PosT-INTELLIGENCERla last night:
VANCOUVER, Nov. la-I,peeial. Mayor Cope
today received q dispatch from Mayor Ronald
to the effect that the toard of health had been
instructed to furnish reports, and indorsing
the Posi- -INTELLIGBSCERs report OF the mum.
Der of cases.
Yesterday the vaccinating business went
merrily ON. DR.. George s. Wright. assist
ant health officer, vaccinated thirty labor
ers arriving from the Great Northern con-
| struction camps on the steamer Grey
hound. DR.. C. w. Sharples, one of the
| deputy health officers. also vaccinated
| about forty-fve men from incoming trains
| on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
| road. The health officers say that it is
| not those of foreign birth who seem to
| need vaccination most. Even the poorer
| Italians and Germans can generally show
marks. What will surprise the average
| reader most is the fact that the men
| from the New England states are most
| in need of it, as a general thing. There is
/ also some prejudice and objection to vac
| cination. even among those classes Nf the
| community which ought to know better,
| the doctors say. Around town in the
| various lodging houses, the physicians of
| the health Office yaccinated about seventy
| five persons. though the day before about
| $50 were treated.
| At Everett determined effort is being
| made to prevent the disease coming there,
| as will be shown by the following dis
| patch:
| EVERETT. Nov. 15-[Speciai. l-Dr. Harris.
health officer, has ordered steamers CascaI lie and
| Miksdo to cease running between Everett and
| Snohomish. owing to smallpox on line Of Great
| Northern railroad camps. There is one case at
| Lowell. one at Snohonish, one at Sultan and
| four at Index, all resulting from the case OF
| laborer who came from the Northwestern hotel,
Seattle, and hCpke out with small pox four days
| after reaching the railroad camp.
The situation at Snohomish is told as
| follows:
sNoHoMIsH, Nov. 1a-rspecial. There is but
one case OF smallpox in town. and is isolated.
DIR. Fairfield, surgeon for Shepard, Henry &
Co., today said there were only FIVE cases of
malpox among all the laborers on the Great
Northern line east OF here, and these are held
the company's hospital at Granite Point
The citizens of Snohomsh generally think that
present conditions would not warrant quaran-
tine by Seattle against this place. The com.
missioners hold authority to quarantine sno-
state board of health.
A single case in San Juan county has
created great CONSERVATION as will be seen
| by the following:
PORT TOWNSEND. Nov. 1a-tSpecial. I-Au-
thentc Information has been received that a
case of smallpox has broken out on
San Juan Island. The victim is c. O.
| Aspad, proprietor OF the Bay View hotel
at Friday harbor. He had been sick four or
five days, but no appreheusions OF the nature Of
the disease were felt There were eleven guests
in the hotel at the time, two OF whom
| escaped before quarantine could be estab-
lished on the building. Among those
confined in the hotel is Lieut.
Buhner, OF the United States revenue cutter
Wolcot,. As soon the fact was known the
villagers became alarmed, and the town is al
most depopula.ed. the inhabitants having fed
to escape quarantine.
The infection appears to have gotten
across the mountains, according to the fol-
lowing dispatch:
NORTH YAKIMA, Nov. 1a-fSpecial l-ElIens.
burg is reported afflicted with SINAI pox. and
Yakima is under police surveillance in conse-
Quence. No bound tramps are allowed in
the city. The police force has been Quadrupled
III number, and great care is being ,aAen.
William Young, a railroad laborer, died
OF smallpox at the Chehalis pest house
Sunday night.
King County W. &. r. u. Convention.