The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-10

SioR-DE Jspson has hls HAAds Fall.
The SmhlipoE 'ItuStien iS mot half 90
bad ~ Wild rumoT made Il out ysalsT.
day. It lSsms incredible that any por.
son would deliberately invent . false
report Olths existence Of = case, yet II
10 hard TO imigIas any reasonable
source for some Of the stories aaoaL
Tho fact A. officially reported at the
meeting Of the council commiltss on
health last nightbY Health oGIesr JsP'
sou, u that but one suspicious case ap.
psaFsd yesterday This WaI Henry
Kilson, = driver Of an Ice wagon, who
lives in the roar Of 1856 Sixteenth street.
He worked all day yesterday, and whom
no went home Ia ths evening was COW
eFod with suspicious eruption. The
health officer was notified, and exam.
ined tho case last evening. lie was not
euro II was smallpox, but adopted all
possible precautions 20 prevent damage
II II should bO. DE-, Jopson said II II
was smallpox II was not a typical case
There WIS a report OF case on EIsv.
enth street, which DR.. jOpson invest.
gated aud found TO DO totally unbound.
cd. There was story OF case on Main
street north OF the crock, bus there was
no truth in II, and It did not reach the
health officer officially, though current
al over town.
At the meeting OF tho health commit.
tee laat night Mr.. +, L. Farrell presided
in the absence OF DR.. Stathers, the
chairman. who ia out Of town. II was
stated that th0rO WSrO In NIL stages Of
the diSeaAe only about twenty cases. 1t
was decided, however, as preCaution
aRRinat possible danger from existing
cases or from tho bringing out Of cloth.
Ing used by families whore the disease
exittAd last spring, TO order all tho
schools, public and private, in tho city
oloaed nc once, until October /, unless
otherwise ordered. The public library
was also ordered to be closed at once
and kept closed till October !, unless
otherwise ordered.
Dr.. JepBon said no regarded 1t as inn
porlant to atop all assembling Of people
In large numbers, as far as possible. He
had asked one Of tho clergy at ST. AL.
phonsus church to close tho school
there yesterday, and no said he would
do 90 at noon. The children OF the pa.
tient Buch, OF the Fifth ward, had
moved out into East Wheeling after the
diaoase appeared. The health officer
had called on them and ordered them
a. httk 1naliNaI He fhnn
told them no would send them back.
II was requested, in Wow OF this and
other cases, that all physicians recog'
ni2lng the symptoms OF smallpox in pa.
tients. notify the health officer be.
fore informing the family, so rs to allow
precautions to ba taken against the de-
partuTa Of other members OF the fam.
ily. Tho HaborStick case, at Pleasant
Valley, was inaIanced in this connec'
tion.
Mr.. Haberstick was afraid OF catching
smallpox, and 80 went out to Pleasant
Valley and rented house. He had
scarcely moved into 1t until he WIS
taken down with the diseOse,
LasteYoning theNuthoritie OF Pleasant
Valley met and took action. The house
10 In an isolated position, and tho pro-
per precautions to prevent the spread
Of the disease were taken. No fears OF
couLagion from that source are onter-
tanned.
DR.. Jepson commented last night on
the very general movement among man
ufacturers to compel employees to be
yaccinated. He said where u person
bad not been successfully vaCCinRted
within six months revaccination should
be required. This is the rule adopted
by moSt OF tho factories.
DR.. Jepson will be n. his oilico from
10 a, m. to noon and 2 to p. III. daily
to vaccinate free those who arc not able
to pay for it,
1t was reported that tho guards now
ON duty are giving good service. Chair.
man Halter, OF the subcommittee on
tho now City Hospital, reported that
the building was making good progress.
He had lot the contract for laying tho
water Pipe TO II. MCKown at his bid OF
1871 cents per foot The other bids wore
o. NJ. WiedcbuSch, 10 cents, and lib
berd & Son, l34 His action was up
proved.
There was some talk about closing the
churches, but positive action was defer
red. The theatres have no shows
booked for some time to come. The
conditions seem good for stamping out
the disease, especially II this warm
weather should continue, but it would
BIO marvellous, under the circumstances,
II there should not DO some new cases.