Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-02
NO MORE SMALLPOX
And the Authorities Do Not Ex-
pect Further Trouble.
Hospital PrOvided---the Visitation of
ls4s-4O Recalled---smRII-Pox During
the War.

lS4S-40 Observation-Disclosures During
the War.
No new case of smallpox has appeare ed
this week, and the probability now is that
there will be none. The progress of Miss
Foley's case has been satisfactory. She
passed the critical stage two days ago, and
If there are no complications she will re-
cover. 1t has been a fully defined case of
the disease, and what medical men know
as both continent and discrete in its form,
the pustules running together on the ex-
posed portions of the body, as on the face
and hands, but being separated on other
portions.
OF the six members of the Foley house
hold, beside the patient and her nurse, and
including four adults and two children, all
were vaccinated and all have had well-de-
fined cow-pox. The persons who came up
in the coach with Miss Foley on the night
of her arrival home were all. sought out
and vaccinated, as were all others known
to have come in contact with her. Not
withstandiug rumors to the contrary, Miss
Foley and her family assert positively that
no one outside the family saw her Sunday,
before the nature of the disease was dis
covered, except her uncles, Mr.. Wood of
Springfield and Mr.. Turner of this village.
1t will thus be seen that every necessary
precaution was taken by the authorities to
prevent the spread of the disease. Up to
noon today no case of suspicious disease
has been reported, and the phys clans feel
much confidence that none will appear.
Hospital Provided.
Acting under the advice of the physi-
clans, and feeling it TO be far better and
cheaper for the town to be provided for an
emergency than to have smallpox cases
appear that could not be properly isolated,
the selectmen decided to build a cheap but
commodious and comfortable hospital
building on the town farm at West Brat
tleboro. The site first chosen was about
40 rods from the farm buildings, ON elevat-
ed ground, with a sunny exposure and
convenient to running water. The resi-
dents in the vicinity were very strongly
opposed to the erection of the building
there, and some of them came down Tpeg-
doy to make it unpleasant" for Mr.. Boy.
den. While believing the selectmen had
decided wisely, Mr.. Boyden finally resolved,
after hearing their side of the case, to take
one or two of the doctors and go up to
look the ground over a second time. Ma
ture consideration showed that the West
Brattleboro people were right in not wish
ing to have in plain sight of the highway
and of their homes building which would
inevitably be known as pest house, and
it was therefore decided to change the To-
cation to spot beyond piece of wood
land farther removed from the buildings,
where it will be hidden from the public
view. The professors agreed as their con
tribution toward the change TO move the
lumber, which had already been drawn, to
the new site. The building will have four
rooms, each II by 16 feet in size. 1t will
be sheathed outside and in, and will have
roof of tarred felt, which will last for
several years. The building will be COM
pleted within a day or two. IT'S cost will
be about S400.
The State Board of Health Approve. o.
After it had been decided to erect a
building for the isolation of cases of in
fectious diseases, DIR. Miller, as health Off
Ger, wrote the state board of health stating
what it was proposed to do. In answer
DR.. j. H. Hamilton, the secretary of the
board, wrote: 1.-THE provision you propose
to make for the isolation of infectious dis.
eases certainly meets with the hearty ap-
proval of the state board. am glad Brat
tleboro is leading in the matter"