The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-13
THE SMALLPOX SCARE
Man With symptoms" at Police
Headquarters.
DIR. KEoGHs STATEMENT
SUSPECT Is PHYSICIAN FROM
EMERY.
DR.. Ray Comes to Town With What
May Be Only Chickenpox or
Light Attack of the More Serious
Malady-No Danger From Conta-
gion-No Uneasiness Warranted.

DIR. Ray, practicing physician from
Emery county, came into the city from
Bingham last night and reporting to
Dr. Beatty, asked to be examined, as
he had symptoms of smallpox An in
vestigation by DR.. Keosh followed, but
the case is yet in doubt. DR.. Ray is
under quarantine as a suspect
1t was between and O'Clock last
evening when DR.. Beatty, the secretary
of the state board of health, walked
into police headquarters. accompanied
by DR.. Ray. After a few minutes con-
versation with Chief of Police Hilton,
in which DR.. Beatty explained that the
man had come to him a short time be-
fore and was possibly afflicted with
smallpox. the three men retired to
Chief Hilton's office, and there the case
was turned over to City Physician
Keogh. So far as possible the case was
inquired into by the latter, who made
the following statement:
Merely a Suspect.
1.-THE case is doubtful. 1t may be
chicken pox or it may be smallpox in
a mild form. AT any rate, he will be
kept under quarantine and in seclu-
sion until further investigation is made.
A thorough diagnosis will be made to-
morrow"
Explaining the symptoms of the case,
Dr. Keogh seemed hopeful.
THE man." said he. ''has had no
fever and no pains in the back or lower
limbs, which are sure. to come with
smallpox. He has had two eruptions
that are like smallpox. but the fact
that they have disappeared rapidly
makes it more like chicken pox.
Dr. Ray has been exposed to an al
legged case of chicken pox, and to moth
ing else, so far as he knows He trav-
eled from Emery county to Bingham.
arriving there last Saturday and it is
not supposed that he came in contact
with smallpox en- route. He has felt
indispoSed for week, and while he
believes his case one of chicken pox,
he decided to take further steps to de-
termine The fact that the patient was
taken to police headquarters caused
great alarm when the news spread.
DR.. Beatty Alarmed.
DR.. Beatty was as indignant as any
body over the fact that there was NO
proper place to receive the case. 1T is
another demonstration" said he last
night ''of the negligence of the au-
thorities in not providing for emergen-
cies of this kind. There is not a place
in this city of $4,000 inhabitants, where
a contagious disease can be taken and
treated without msnacing others:
DIR. Beatty says that if RI. Rays
case is smallpox, it is extremely mild.
and the indications are that 1t came
from Sanpete. None of the cases there,
he said, is malignant There would not
be danger of contagion in Rays case,
as it is at present, he further stated,
except by coming in direct contact
with him. This willl7be reassuring to
the several people exposed ait police
headquarters, where DR.. Ray stayed all
night. "
Another scare went. the rounds yes
terday afternoon. Investigation proved.
however, that it was only case OF
chickenpox, and not a very bad one
at that.
A telephone message to the city board
of health at a little before o'clock yes
terday afternoon conveyed the start
ling informa ton that. there was
woman with the disease in the house
next to fire station No. L; that she had
come from Butte, where she had been
afflicted, and that she left before she
had gotten well, theJSores on her face
being still open, and the malady in one
of its worst forms of contagion.
DR.. Keogh Investigates.
The health department was imme-
diately aroused and telephoned TO DR..
Keogh regarding the matter. The doc
tor went to the house in question and
saw the woman and talked with her.
She gave her name as Julia Lindrup,
and said that she had come down from
Butte two weeks ago. While in that
city she had a moderate case of )hicken
pox, DR.. Lobinzer attending her.
When she had gotten well she remov-
ed to Salt Lake, but the <sores on her
face had not all healed up, and it was
that which caused the anxious tele-
phoning to the department from some
scared person, who was afraid that
Zion was about to have an epidemic of
the disease. DR.. Keogh made a thor
ough examination, and found not the
slightest symptom o. evidence of small
pox. 1t was no more than a mild form
of chicken pox, and the scare was thus