The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DR.. r. N. Eames Elected to Sue
coed DR.. Sparkling.
PHYSICIAN FOR PEST HOUSE
Or. Sparkling to Have Charge Of Small
pox Patients-Another Cass-An
Ambulance Ordered.

Alta special meeting of the board OF health
= Yesterday afternoon Robert NJ. Eames was ap-
noip,ed health officer TO succeed DR.. G. H. T.
c,s,Iiug Measures were also taken TO stamp out
the smallpox President f. A. Churchill, Drs.
lanes shannon and s. J. Holmes and Health
oseer sparing were present when the meeting
was called 10 order.
The president announced that the primary
object OF the meeting was to elect new health
officer The board desired to appoint q man
who could work In harmony with the admins
ration. II was necessary in the present state Of
Affairs 20 nave 4 man who would give his whole
time 20 the office, as the retiring officer had
done Ia view OF this condition DR.. Crichton
had withdrawn his application. At this point
! DE- Holmes stated that Dr. Crichton had said he
. would be q candidate conditIonally and desired
the election put off for time.
The board was unanimous IN its opinion that
the condition OF affairs required immediate &C.
tion aud the election should be made at once.
Health Officer Sparkling was called upon, and
read applications for the position from the fol-
lowing: DR.. r. II. Eames DR. w. H. Hilton, DR..
rs Palmer, d.. George S. Wright, Dr. Caspar
sharples. DR.. J. II. Rooms and DIR. J. T. Crichton.
Dr. Eanes was unanimously elected on the first
ballot
Dr. Holmes called attention to the condition
of affairs at the pest house, and commented on
the acts OF the delirious patients, report OF
which was published in the PosT-lsTELLIaKN-
GER yesterday. He considered it dangerous to
delay appointing resident physician, because,
should accident OF any kind occur, the board
would feel iiseif guilty of negligence. Presi-
dent Churchill Endorsed Dr. Holmes opinion,
and favored selecting physician at once.
There was only one application, namely, that
OF DR.. George II. T. Sparkling, and he was elected,
but IL was afterwards found his resignation
health officer did not take effect until Noyem-
Der /. Some line was occupied in Strengthening
this out, after which the new resident physi-
clan was instructed to go to the pest house at
once. and on recommendation OF Dr. Holmes he
Was instructed to keep d record of the progress
OF the disease in the OF each OF the patients
The matter of establishing a suspect house"
was deferred The secretary was instructed to
cali for sealed bids for furnishing supplies of all
kinds TO the pest house
The new health officer was instructed TO pur-
chase suitable wagon for conveying patients
10 the pest house and TO ut IL with q COZ and
cover.
One more case OF smallpox was discovered
yesterday. 4. McCloud, who has been sick in
the Babeock house, on Washington street, with
what Dr. George 8. Wright declared to be Sec
ondarv syphilis, walked into the police station
yesterday morning and said he thought he had
the smallpox. lie had been put out of the ho-
; tel and had slept on n wharf. DR.. Sparkling was
called, and on examination he found McCloud
to be covered with smallpox eruption. lie was
sent to the pest house at once. and then the
otacers proceeded to the Babcock house. No one
was sick, so the house was cleared and fumi-
gated from top to bottom. All goods were tied
up and put in a room where sulphur was burn
ing. Every person in the building was vacci-
mated before going out, and no one will be al
lowed TO enter the house for twenty-!our hours.
7hs place would have been quarantined had
not McCloud been out OF ii two days. Every
thing was quiet at the American house, and
there are no indications that any of the quaran-
tined persons have contracted the disease.
The fact that smallpox patient had been In
the police station caused a general cleaning.
and many OF the officers wero vaccinated Chief
Jackson has not made it compulsory, but has
supplied Clerk kierski with all necessary ap-
IsrHtus.
Columbus Day at SnOhomish.
ssoHoMIsB, Oct 2l.-tSpeeiaL Five hundred