Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-30

The Council Committee on Health
met last evening and spent a good deas
Of time going over the big lot of small
pox bills which have accumulated dur
ing the past month or so. These bills,
which were almost entirely made up Of
items for guards, provisions and gro
ceries for quarauJined families, and
compensation for clothing etc, de-
stroyed, footed up $lS65.S3. with sew
eral disputed bills carried over.
Mr. Halter brought before The Com
mj-tee a case where a child i'm a famllS
was down with smallpox. while the
mother expected 90 Doe confined ar any
moment The father had no work, his
employers dischargiug him from duty
as long al, there was smallpox al his
home. although DE had NOT been at the
house since The disease was diagnosed.
The family was iu poor circumstances,
was being supplied with food by the
health department. and was unable TO
employ the female nurse which would
ho Indispensable when the mother be-
came ill., Mr. Haller moved that the
ladys mother who had come from
Pennsylvania, De employed as a nurse,
and this was agreed to. her cOmpensa-
tion to- be s. per day, and TO date FROM
Friday last
The Health officer said another vel
low flag had been taken down
during the day, making four cases con-
valescent within three days He was
asked how many cases were left in the
city, and he replied five, not counting
these az the pest house. This did not
tally with information previously pub
hshed, as il was said Saturday. after
the three flags had come down, there
were but four cases in all left, and an
other flag down yesterday would have
left three. Now. including the pest
house, there are six or seven. The
statement of the Health Officer, of
course, is the correct one.
Two plans for new pest house wers
submitted, one by Mr.. Faris and one bv
Mr.. Clator. Mr.. Gators plan called
for q one-stOry and attic building
6OX36 feet. divided into eight rooms.
hall and bath room. Two rooms each.
15Xl5, in one end of the building. and
separated from the sick wards bv a
hail. are designed for the exclusive use
OF the family residing at the hosD;tal.
The other SIX rooms. three on each sid6
OF the building, and separated by a
hail. are 12Xl2, and are designed for
patients. About twelve patients could
be cared for in such a building. The
plan submitted by Mr. Fair called for 4
two-story building with four rooms on
a floor, the capacity for patients being
about the same as the other.
The question of a site came up and
The city common. near the old reser-
voir, was suggested. II was agreed.
however. that there would be a public
objection to the building. if located
there. and after a general and some
what scattered discussion the subject
was dropped.
Somebody asked what had become OF
the special committee to examine into
the question of compulsory vaccinna-
ton, and il was discovered the Com
mlttee had never met and. the same
thing appears to be true of one or two
other special committees.
The matter Of amending the health
ordinance so as to provide for the re-
moval of certain classes of patients 10
the pest house, came up, when a mem
Der Of the Committee said he was op-
posed to any discrimination Let both
rich and poor go there. he said. and
let them all suffer alike"
There was a great deal of talk of the
usual desultory sort, but nothing def
mite came out of il.