Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-13
SMALLPOX INCREASING.

Two Well-Developed Cases and one
 Suspect at tho Pest, ,Ho use-Both Pa-
 tlents Colored-One of the Patients
 May Have Spread the Conta9ion-
 The Board of Health. on the Qui
 vive for More New Cases.
 There are at present two genuine cases of smallpox under treatment at the pest house, and one suspect, and it Is probable that within Q short time there may be sev- eral patients there. The last patient is Samuel Mickens, colored lodger at 16 Union street, who was sent to the pest house Wednesday by Health Officer
 Wright, suffering from what was supposed to te case of the dreaded disease. Yes terday Mloken's symptoms became more
 pronounced, and last evening he was re-
 ported as suffering from we'll developed
 and virulent attack of smallpox.
 Aickens, up to Tuesday afternoon, was
 1odger at the house IS Union street, from
 which W. D. Reeves was taken to the pest
 house several weeks ago, suffering from smallpox. Tuesday he complained of not feeling well and was turned out of the
 house. That night he remained in the city, but where he stopped has not yet
 been aecsrtained. Early Wednesday morn-
 ing he found his way to police headquar
 tsrs, and after visiting the several rooms
 in that building succeeded in finding the
 office of the board of health and Health Officer Wright, for whom he wss looking
 After explaining his symptoms to Health Officer Wright, the latter concluded as 6 precautionary measure that it would be better to send the man to the pest house. Miekens was accordingly sent out there in velop, in order to determine whether the suspect had smallpox or not. After his arrival there the disease rapidly developed and yesterday 1t became an assured fact that he had the smallpox, and he was &C.,
 cordingly placed under treatment for that disease.
 All day the patient confined to grow worse and last night he was critically i'll The man Is very dark-skinned negro and the physicians at the pest house are of the | opinion tkatq he will have very severe very much against his recovery. As far as could be ascsrtained Mickens has no relations or friends fn~this city. The houpe at 16 Union Street has again been placed under strict quarantine regu | latiops which will be maintained for some time yet. The health authorities are, how. ever, afraid that Mickens during Tuesday ! night, may have communicated the disease | to others and sharp lookout will be kept | for all suspicious cases of illness during | the next few weeks.
 W. D. Reeves. who has been i'll with ! smallpox at the pest house for several l weeks, is slowly convalescing and 1t is be ! lteved will pull through all right.
 Health Officer Wright yesterday ordered ! the removal of Daniel Wright of 70 Fair street to the pest house. He was discov-
 cred at home i'll with symptoms of small pox and Dr. Wright thought 1t better to
 have him isolated until the symptoms had ! more fully developed and 1t could be def- nitely ssoertained whether or not he had the smallpox. Wright was taken to the pest house yesterday afternoon, but up to last evening his csss had not sufficiently developed to determine whether or not he was suffering from the disease.