The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-01
ANACONDA NEWS.
SIX CASES OF SMALLPOX
They Made Their Appearance in
the Northern Part of County.
ALL ARE QUARANTlNED
County Health Authorities Take Steps
to Prevent Spread OF the Dis
ease = Conn Murder Case
Postponed Because ofIt.

Smallpox has made it's appearance in
the northern part Of Deer Lodge coun-
ty. Six mild cases are being cared for
at Helmville and prompt action taken
by the county health authorities is be-
lieved to have effectually headed Off
the spread Of the disease. There is lit
tie or no danger of the disease visiting
Anaconda, but as a precautionary
measure DR.. Stephens, the county ply
sician, advises a general vaccination.
Because of the appearance of small
pox at Helmville it has been deemed
advisable to continue the trial of w. r.
Conn, charged with murder, for the
term This trial was to have been be-
gun tomorrow in the district court.
Most of the witnesses come from Helm
vile, where the alleged murder of w.
B, Woolford was committed April ~
last and 1t was decided as not advisa-
BILE to bring them here at this time.
The Conn case will come up at the next
term of court.
Dr.. Stephens, who has investigated
the situation at Helmville. said last
night:
is the chairman of the county board
of health, and were informed on Tues
day morning that there was case or
smallpox in Helmville. We went there
on Tuesday evening and returned
Wednesday. On reaching Helnlville VIC
found that Dave Coughlin's family,
comprising Mrs. Coughlin and three
children, had varioloid. Mr.. Coueniih
was not attacked with the disease. The
cases were light. We examined the
cases and had the house quarantined
and guard was placed, SO that no
hoiy would go in or out.
george Brown, who drives the stage
between Helmville and Ovando, who
was stopping with the family, had dis
Greet smallpox and we ordered him Kept
in the house. He is getting along very
nicely.
eve engaged an office and announced
that we would vaccinate everybody
who would call, and before we got
through everybody had been vaccl-
mated. BY that means we believe We
have the disease under control. inc
people in Helmville don't seem to be
worked up over 1t and they are conf
dent that we will soon close it out.
To-day 1 telephoned my deputy, Dr.
GlasS of Deer Lodge, and he went to
Helmville this afternoon. HesW1ll look
after the cases in the northern part
Of the county.
smallpox sooner over there I believe
that 1t was started by a manswbo had
the smallpox who passed through
Helmville several weeks ago. This man
and another fellow We're living UP IN
the canyon and they both had small
pox They both left, one man coming
through Helmville and the other going
to some other part Of the county.
DIR. Glass will look after the cases in
Helmville and win make weekly trips
there to consult with my deputy. In
this way, believe that we can raise
the quarantine in almost three weeks:
At that time will go to Helmville and
see that everything likely to carry con-
tagion is burned up. I don't think the
disease can spread, as the people are
all vaccinated, the country Is healthy
and the residences are far apart.
1.-THE county will spare no expense to
quash the disease and everything pos
sible will be done by us. don't believe
there is any danger for the people of
Anaconda in regard to the spreading OF
the disease from Helmville, for the rea-
son that the latter town is SO far away
and it is hardly possible that people
could carry the disease in their clothes
from Helmville to Anaconda.
las a matter of caution, would ad-
wise the people who have not been vac
cinated for the last three or four years
that it would be well for them to go to
their physicians and get vaccinated."