The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-26
PEST HOUSE W
4 Most Serious Condition of ,r.
in fhir " ~

4 Most Serious Condition OF Affair,
in Chicago. exist,
One hundred and twentv.siv
cases was the smallpox record !. hes|
cago for TIE last week as show, hC1l|
books in the Health Denanoy the|
Twenty-Five of these were rem .uen'
Friday, twenty-three on Sa+.s9 &|
Eleven had teen discovered 49, ,0raay
o'clock Sunday. and the denarr,so
declares the disease is still spreadieea '
One hundred and eighty-six nstianas
says a dispatch, r in the pest boa's
several are in the suspect" ward r ~
County Ho: pital. and a numbo. .Ae|
ouarantined in private houses he, afa
there is no room in the city's bosni,s
No more women or children will hp n
moved from infected houses rn re
some extra provision is made for ~
care. T
The Department of Health h..
officials and inspectors. declares i,.a ny
unable to meet the emergencv ~;
prevent the further spread of tbo SaI
ease unless further facilities ara MY
vided at once and the people of W ~,
wards most affected cooperate in "a
porting new ca cs as soon as ,bar
arise. Wv"
The most serious condition of as,;..
has been found in the southwest M,
tion of the city, especially in the yi T.
and Tenth Wards. DR.. NJ. Brand wv
Inspector, found three persons dead n
their houses Sunday, and two simil..
cases on Saturday. The people livip1
in the hodses had concealed the exi,,l
cnce of smallpox until death came and
they were compelled to call in tho nn
dertaker. He notified the Health M
rartment and DR.. Brand was SON, u
investigate.
Went to school and to Church.
1T would not be we'll to give tho all
dresses" said the doctor when he wsl
asked about them, but they were II
families where the people had bee1
passing in and out, the children coin1
to schooi. the family attending churra|
and going about as if smallpox werJ
an everyday affair. That seems "a III
nothing extraordinary, either. bayI
had q number of cases where the fr,1
word we had of them was from the unl
dertaker. Generally We find one al
two new cases in the house with thd
dead body. but the isolation of such
cases is net enough to stop the TROUBLED
because we are called in alter the haru
has been done.
Another thing, and the most seriouj
obstacle. is the opposition to ~vaccins
ton. The Poles especially seem to re-
gard incubation with fear as a thinJ
to be dreaded. 1t is next to impossibl
to persuade the residents of the dis,
trict to protect themselves and theid
neighbor from cOntagion. As a result
the condition of things here is %seriou
and something ought to be done 4
once if they are not to be worse.
Here is an example of the way thd
disease is scattered: | was called ID
to examine a patient in a house.
found a little girl already dead, anOth}
er sister in the first stages, and thd
father, who was a butcher, attending
to his shop every day. There had bee3
no attempt to isolate him. He soJl
fresh meat to hundreds of people ID
that neighborhood, and it will 81
strange if some of them do not como
down sick. To make matters wor:eI
the sanitary conditions in the distric9
are very bad. Not an alley in thd
Ninth or Tenth Ward is paved, and all
most all of them r filled with trash