The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-10

captain and purser will be allowed to go
up town. The health officers will
thoroughly examine passengers leaving
victoria and keep persons afflicted with
contaglon quarantined. The Puget
sound board of health are confident of
keeping the disease off the Sound, and ask
the careful cooperation of the health
officers of Seattle and Tacoma. All pas
senger steamers from British Columbia
ports are compelled to undergo careful in.
spection before passengers are landed.
gentleman who came over from Victoria on
the steamer City of Kingston on Saturday gives
better view of the extent of the smallpox epi.
oemie In that city than can be obtained from
the newspapers there He declined TO talk for
publication unless his name was withheld rs
ne was cautioned before leaving not TO talk
ABOUT the epidemic, but he is man whose
statements can be relied upon. He said:
Ihe chief of police told me that he knew of
iorty cases, and there probably ten to twenty
more which he has not discovered The cases
are not confined 10 the principal hotels, as was
stated In dispatch to the PosT INTELLIGENcEg,
put are scattered all over the town-in the resi-
delce section, the Chinese quarter and the busi-
ness district alike. Yellow flags are hanging
from some of the best houses, and F. G. Vernon,
The commissioner of land and works, is down
with IT. No precautions seem 10 be taken
against its spread. Three cases were taken out
OF one lodging house, aud il Is still open. You
cannot go anywhere without sitting beside some
person on whom it may break out next day.
Al expressman was employed in the morning
IN hauling case 10 the pest-house outside the
town. and in the afternoon hauled some bag
gage to "A hotel. One man who runs candy
and did not know what ii was. He continued
wrapping up packages of candy, which he was
selling to children.
Everybody who can is getting out of the town
anu Obstacles have haqn nm
IN the way prostitute died in of a row
OF houses and number of other women from
those houses came up on the Kingston to Seat
tie last night: party OF tourists who went
over ON the Kingston, intending TO go East by
the Canadian Pacific, did not land, but cana
right back on the boat. When / came on board
they all moved away if they were afraid OF
me, and they stood aloof whenever approached
them during the trip. There was the greatest
everybody had some disinfectant him. One
man smellei OF earbolic acid, another
wa. espA0t tso smell fnd from aaasa iH flock 'hee; e
sheep. he druggists over there are doing
a, roaring business. They have not enough
clerks to hand out the disinfeetants, and have
put up eGrboiic acid to > cents ounce.
The Victoria people claim that the Infection
was brought over from Vancouver in sugar
pioyed in heading NJ barrels of sugar at the re.
hnery, ana two OF these are dead and the other
three are down with smallpox.
ston gives an even worse account OF the state OF
affairs. He said:
The disease IS all over the city, and druggist
told me there were nearer $50 than forty cases,
as many OF them are being kept quiet The
doctors are working night and day and
people are paying SO a day for nurses.
Another druggist told me that his business
had quadruped ia the last three days
and that there were 10 cases which the
doctors were keeping quiet They are scattered
ali over tne city. from the best to the lowest
Dy,F cAor nd Erfd
standing in line at the doctors offices waiting
to be vaccinated, and one doctor told me he
could not get a vaccine point in the town, as
they We're all sold out.
No precautions worth speaking OF have been
taken. A Salvation Army man who was put on
guard at one infected house, was found drunk
in a room, having deserted his post. and was
given thirty days in jail child of Henry
Bail died yesterday, aud I saw some OF the
during the city bands concert in the Market
hall, II man was taken sick and lay down there.
He was found 10 have smallpox ana was taken
away, don't know where. Mrs. Spencer, OF
spencers Arcade, is down with it. Two cases
were taken from Mrs. leagues boarding house
on Yates street this week, and in the
are going about their business as usual
Mr.; Waite, the owner Of book store,
tined His son-in-law goes about his business
every day, and have seen him riding bicycle
since. The daughter OF man named Heal, who
died some weeks ago, is down with it. Four or
five cases have been taken from a row of shanties
on Johnson street, where a number OF men
batch together, but the Others go about the
same as ever.
The disease first made its appearance in Vic
toria about six weeks ago. when the Quaran-
tine officer let the steamer Empress OF Chira go
through with one case and gave him a clean bill
OF health for Vancouver. At that time q hack
man man brought Chinaman from the steamer to
Chinatown and left him next door to the Car-
ence hotel That hackman knew the China
man had smallpox; but no has been carrying
people ever eince.
Though the disease has been spreading since
then, precautions were taken and the papers
have said nothing about ii till yesterday. They
say what 1t was. 1t had broken out at tho
Refuge home, but there was no outward
sign OF its existence from the time
street uatil Friday. Then the chief
of police went around with an
armful OF yellow flags aud put them up at the n-
fected houses. On the same day they began dis
injecting and cleaning up, but they were not
quarantining the houses. The city has no sew
doors. All the ofal from the houses is emptied
ioto boxes and barrels in the rear, which ars
not emptied until they are all full, when the
The pest house at Albert head, fourteen miles
from the city, is too small and has not enough
accommodations for the patients and LACKS
proper medical attention. Sandy Williams a
waiter at the Victoria hotel. was taken down on
Monday and removed to the Jubilee hospital.
n woman is nursing him. letter was received
from her on Thursday morning, say
ing that there was not enough to cat
there, and provisions sent out Tho
city authorities asked permission from the
Dominion government to build place on tho
Indian reserve, close to the city, but it was re-
fused.
The Hotel Driard has been closed by its pro-
prietor.
The general outbreak of the disease occurred
after the celebration OF Dominion day, July l,
when about 1.50) Victorians went TO Vancouver
and STAYED several days. IL has prevails I'd for
some time at Vancouver. but they nave kept it
quiet.
Quarantine precautions now being taken
by other towns, even including Vancouver. The
captain OF the steamer Yosemite received orders
from there that unless lie coq.d show a clean
bill OF health today he would not be allowed 10
land passengers. The passengers tho
Nanaimo railroad were sent back from Nanaimo
on Friday. not being allowed 10 get oil. The
health officers al Port Townsend examine all
passengers on incoming steamers from Victoria
Dr. George II. I. sparing, the city physician
OF Seattle, is IL king every precaution TO guard
against tue brin ging OF smallpox into this city.
He boards the steamer City OF Kingston on its
arrival from Victoria aud other steamers from
British Columbia every day, examines the pas
sengers and does not allow them to land with
out a clean bill OF health.
The Victoria papers utterly ignore the small
pox, just the papers of Moscow say nothing
about the cholera Vaneouyer's latest case of
smallpox is at a house OF ill-tame at III Dupont
street. 1t was brought from Victoria. The