The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-21
A SMALL PESTHOUSE
Work Begins on a Temporary One
at Daylight This Morning.
Special Meetings Of the Council TO Make
ApprOpriations-Filthy Conditions
on Eddy Street-Two Suspects.

y. X. Fatout e. Son will begin the erec-
ton Of a temporary pesthouse at daylight
this morning the old pesthouse site. The
contract was made yesterday evening by
the Board Of Works. subject to the action
or the Council on the appropriation ordi-
nances, which were passed by that body
early this morning. The building will be
twenty by sixty feet, built Of rough lum-
Der. with kitchen twelve by twenty feet
on one side Of II. On account OF the danger
of overflow by the spring floods II will
stand on posts five feet above the ground.
The building will be divided into four
rooms, one at each end twelve by twenty
feet for the nurses and physicians and
two other rooms in the middle eighteen by
twenty feet, to be used male and fe-
male wards. This building will accommo-
date about twenty patients, but more could
be crowded in If necessary.
Yesterday morning. at the time the city
offices were opened, contractors who read
the proceedings Of the cabinet meeting the
night before were on hand, ready to con-
fer with the Board of Works in regard to
the erection Of this building. James E.
Shower was there with plans all drawn
up, but his specifications called for a build
ing entirely too expensive for a temporary
affair. During the morning the members
OF the Board of Health drew a rough
sketch of such a building as they wanted,
and later in the day plans and specihca-
tions were completed by Building Inspector
Pendergast. Six contractors appeared to
bid on the proposed buildings Their bids
were as follows: G. H. Jameson, 1891; Jas.
Z. Shower, 1904; T. ]. Morse, $500; David l.
Scott 81 Co. $S57; Conrad Bender, SIT, and
n. X. Fatout 81 Son, $500. The buildings
cost was estimated by Mr.. Pendergast at
about 500, but 1T seems on account OF the
emergency and trouble which will be ex-
perienced in securing men to work so near
the present pestilential tents, the bids were
much higher than these estimates. Three
or the contractors handed In their bids
without knowing that the building was to
go on the old pesthouse site, but as soon
as they learned that fact recalled their
bids and made them higher. Mr.. Fatout
SAID Yesterday that he would watch the
proceedings of the Council, and If the ap-
preparation was made so that his contract
work at daylight this morning hauling
tnus the work during Sunday, and will
have the building so that 1t can be occupied
some time Monday. He does not anticipate
any great trouble in securing men to do
the work, although he expects, possibly,
wages. This, however, was provided for in
his bid.
Yesterdays storm again showed the
gent necessity OF immediate action IN the
construction of this building. DR.. Poucher
rerorted that it was almost impossible 20
keep the tents on the ground, and that
with the utmost care they could not keep
everything inside OF them dry. The Board
OF Health does not anticipate any great
epidemic, but believes there will be more
cases before the disease is entirely stamped
out. The. Board of Health yesterday morn
ing issued the following order:
"All persons who are employed, frequent
ing or living within the area bounded py
Tennessee, Illinois, South and Merrill
streets, are hereby notified that they must
be yaccinated by noon, April n, to the sat
isfaction OF the Board Of Public Health
and Charities of the city Of Indianapolis.
Failure to comply with these regulations
will compel persons violating the regula-
tons TO be at once placed under quaran-
tine"
This order gives those persons in the neigh
borhood in which the Stahlcup case was
discovered till noon to-day to be vaccinated
The vaccinating will be done by doctors
from the City Dispensary free OF charge.