The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-09
twenty-five Cases and Two
Deaths at Victoria.
THREE HOTELS ARE INFECTED.
The Puget Sound Board of Health
Takes Steps to Quarantine.
British Columbis Unable to Longer Hide
the Truth-Victoria Officials Not TAX
ing Proper Action to Eradicate the
Discase-Same Thing at Vancouver.

PoRr TOWNSEND. July S-TSpecial The
Puget sound board of health today ordered
all passengers on vessels arriving from
Victoria ports to pass personal inspection
by health officers before proceeding to
up Sound cities. The board has no auth
ority to compel vessels bound to SUPPORTS
to stop here for medical inspection. DR..
Baldwin, health officer, wired Victoria to-
day for definite information pertaining to
the number of cases of smallpox existing
in Victoria and received the following re-
ply from the health officer:
There are twenty five cases today.
G. L. MILNE
All the officers and crew on the steamer
Kingston were vaccinated tonight and
strict quarantine regulations have been
adopted. The United States health officer
DR.. Conover, has been asked to cooperate
VICTORIA July ESPECIAL. THE Posr-
lNTELLIGENCER correspondent has care
fully investigated all known cases of
smallpox in this city and find them to be
less than thirty in number, the mai ority
OF mild form. Disinfectants are in use
all over town and great majority of the
citizens have been vaccinated. The cases,
as soon as the disease develops, are quar-
antined and precautions are being taken
to prevent spread of the disease. Only
two deaths have been reported, one victim
being a 2-year-old daughter of Henry B.
Ball and the other an inmate of a house
of ill-fame
A request was made to the Dominion
government some days ago for the use of
an old building. near the Marine hospital,
on the Indian reservation for smallpox
patients. Up to this morning no answer
had been received, and the council con-
sidering delay dangerous, authorized the
work to proceed. This afternoon the
mayor received, through Superintendent
of Indian Affairs Lowell, a telegram re-
fusing use. The doctors are busy, and
druggists are selling disinfectants fast
VANCOUVER, b. c., July ESPECIAL. i
The Vancouver board of health met this
afternoon and decided that if reports from
Victoria were correct it would be advisable
to quarantine against that town. The re-
ports aIe that the cases of smallpox are in
the three principal hotels. G. J.. Milne,
the health officer, was wired and his reply
was that thirty cases had SO far been re-
ported. Vancouver has been free of the
disease, but yesterday it was found that a
prostitute, who had been visiting friends
in Victoria and had Just returned, had de-
veloped the disease. The citizens who
have been in the house where she was
since her return are naturally alarmed.
Among the Victorians who are down is a
well known stationer. William w. Wait
and one of the Brown Bros, the big
grocery firm.
The British Columbia cities are suffering from
tl,nr @tet.i 80 ttg;-
papers in keeping from the people information
that should not have been hidden. When a
smallpox sufferer Was found in Seattle the fact
was promptly published if there had been
dozen or fifty cases all the circumstance OF the
sickness would have been made public At the
present time there are dozens of people in Vic
toria suffering from smallpox-some say seventy,
Others fifty, and the PosrISTELLIGEScER's
correspondent says less than thirty. There are
a great many cases at Vancouver and some at
New Westminster. People exposed TO the dis
ease permitted to leave the infected dis
tricts. Thus Macleod, ~ W. T., Whatcom and
Walla Walia have received uuwelcome visitors.
he smallpox viii spread until the newspapers
print the news. The New Westminster Colum-
ban tells how the disease is kept secret in Van
couver. Mrs. Dockendorf and her little child
were taken i'll recently, and, says the Columbian
"the matter seems To have been kept profound
secret, as Mayor Cope said today that he did not
know anything about 1t.
The Chinese interpreter, Cum Vow, says that
the Vancouver authorities are keeping quiet a
number of cases of smallpox among the Chinese
of that city.
The Victoria Colonist of the 18th says:
Within the last twenty-four hours we have
heard stories that have surprised US not little
We cannot believe that they true. In tact
it is not safe to believe the half, or anything
like ii, that one hears on the street about such
matters. We trust there wNl be no cause for
complaint in the future Isolation. strict and
continued, until all danger is past, is the
can now be used. lie. the authorities act
with decision. II they do what is right
they will be supported and strengthened by
every intelligent man and woman in the city
Ii what h S been told US is true the ve'y first
step that the city authorities should take is to
shut up the salvation Army's place of meeting
and copfne the members OF the corps to their
barracks until i; Is seen that they perfectly
free from contaglon.
The Victoria Times says
Ii is simply criminal to permit cabs and ex-
press wagons 70 be used TO carry sufferers from
contag ous diseases, and after having done so
10 return to their stands on the streets of
the ty. premium might well be
paid for the successful propagation and
dissemination of disease. There ought TO be
vehicles for the purpose, and paid officials of
the corporation TO operate them. We do not
wish 10 convey q wrong impression, or TO raise
an alarm among our citizens not justified ty the
facts But il is our firm conviction. based upon
Information received IRON medical gentlemen
at an early hour this afternoon, that the efforts
Of the health officer, which have been con-
stantiy and inteliiCentiy conducted have COM
pletely failed TO stamp out contagious diseases
Health officer Sparkling, OF Seattle, was seen
last night bya PosT-lNTELLIGENcEE reporter
concerning the presence OF the disease in this
city, and said:
There have been but two eases in the city, so
far a. | know recently. The first OF these was
discovered about June t. IL was q man named
Tystad. who contracted the dsea = at Snoho-
| mish and came here with IL. He was sent to
| Providence hospital under the suppe-itiou that
he had the m asles As soon as visited him
ana found that he had the smallpox / sent him
to the pesthouse and quarantned the hospital
and the shanty on Weller street where Ty.tad
| was stopping The other case was that
of o ToOle a laborer on the Monte Cristo road
| He took sick there and came TO Seattle with the
smallpox | found him III the rear of little
| store at the corner OK Fourth and Fine and had
him removed To the pesthouse. l then cuaran-
| tined the store and vaccinated everybody about
the place Both men are now recovering and
will soon be about. | do not believe there has
been another case In the city, nor Will there be,
| as smallpox cannot flourish in hot weather
In my opinion the disease Was brought 10 the
| Coast from New York city. | receive each vice. =
| and smallpox has been raging in the Its!ian
/ large number o! Italian lAtorers have come
direct from the city To work The Monte Cristo
| road and believe they brought the contagion