Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-12
FREE REIN FOR
DR., ALEXANDER
Smallpox Regulations to be
Under His Control.
A RIGID QUARANTINE TO
Be Enforced in the Future-Alder-
men Discuss Graveyard"
Water.
. RIGID QUARANTINE TO

At last nights meeting of the city
council, after a lengthy and heated dis
cussion, DIR. Alexander, city health Off
Ger, got what he asked for-full author
ity to take n action that he might
consider necessary looking to the sup
preston of smallpox. In the future the
doctor will enforce a rigid quarantine.
When the matter came up for consid-
GRAFTON DR.. Alexander was given the priv
ilege of the floor. He informed the
ouncil that the quarantine during the
past two weeks had been far from salts
factory and was little better than no
quarantine at all. His idea was that
When a house was discovered to contain
a smallpox patient every person living
in the house should be uuarantined.
Alderman Bryant took issue with the
city physician. He favored the present
system of quarantine. He said that UNI
der the old system people experienced no
difficulty in escaping from q%uarantined
blocks. He then rendered his r~esigna-
ton as a member of the health board,
with the statement that the health Off
GER was dissatisfied with some of the
members of the board.
City Attorney Lamb stated that the
city could enforce a very rigid quaran-
tine.
The council then discussed the Lindsay
case. Lindsay is a lodger at the Metro
pole house. He was discovered to be
i'll of smallpox yesterday afternoon, and
has set the health officers at defiance,
refusing to go to the pest house. IT was
the sense of the aldermen that the city
had the right. under the health laws,
to take anyone to the pest house.
Then followed a series cf kicks on the
part of the aldermen. iSrltt said he I'M
derstood some of the pest house nurses
the opinion that physicians who examin-
ed smallpox patients should not be per-
mitted to mingle with the people. Sci
benaler criticized DR.. Monroe in having
permitted people to leave buildings in
which smallpox patients We're confined.
Alderman Medin defended the board Of
health. The case of DR.. H. H. Hansen
who is charged with violation of the
health laws regarding smallpox, was dis
cussed, and finally a motion, giving the
city physician power to take any action
in cases of smallpox that he considers
for the public good, was adopted.
The council then discussed graveyard
water" the mayor stating that one of the
objects at the special meeting was to
consider the water pumped from the Sill
Yer Bow station, which is supposed to
drain the graveyard.
SAID ne considered the water
in question superior to that taken from
the water compahy's reservoirs. Bry-
ant and Macarthur also defended the wa
ter company. For the first time in
months Page and Britt We're of the same
opinion. They condemned the Silver
Bow station water, as did also Noyes. On
motion of Bryant it was finally decided
that the council should visit the station
at ? o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
that a chemical analysis should be made
of the water.
Before the matter was disposed of
Mayor Mccarthy addressed the council
concerning an editorial attack on him
by a morning newspaper. with reference
to the water question. IT want to saw"
said he. that the charge that I am under
the control of the Amalgamated COM
is without founda ton. The article
is unwarranted and untrue" After pass
ing upon several minor matters the coun-
Gil adjourned.