The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-30
SORE ARM COLONY GROWS
Experimentation in Anaconda
Has Not Abated.
SCRATCHED BY HUNDREDS
The Physicians Believe These Prompt
Measures Have Headed Off Gem
eral Decentralization OF the
Seven Smallpox Cases.

Right merrily continues the rush for
vaccination. At least 800 people were
vaccinated yesterday. While the lament
of the sore-arm colony is heard in the
land 1t will be infinitely louder when all
the hundreds who have qualified for
membership In the last few days reach
the lamenting stage.
So general has been the vaccination
that the physicians think they see an
early end of smallpox in Anaconda.
at begins to look as though we were
not to have a great deal of the disease,
after ALL, said DR.. Stephens, the health
officer, last night. This general vacci-
nation has been a splendid thing, and If it
only keeps up until all the people have
taken the precaution we will have no ex-
tended epidemic this winter. A few more
days like those of this week have been
and the city will be immune. OF course,
there are some more cases coming.
those whom Wilson exposed and among
the unvaccinated at the foundry who
were exposed by Frost, some cases are
certain to develop. Nevertheless the
number of cases has been reduced greatly
by prompt vaccination. In 10 days or two
weeks / look for several new cases but
no more
No new cases developed in the city yes
terday. There now exist only seven cases
in the city, and these are concentrated
in four places, all of which are closely
guarded and under strict quarantine.
Roscoe Griffith, the first case, is practi-
cally well at his home, on Fourth street.
His sister in the same house had slight
attack of varioloid, which would have
been smallpox had she not been vacci-
mated. Conner Griffith. brother, broke
out last Tuesday, and is a very sick man.
The vaccination failed to work on him,
having been applied too late. Another
brother is also a very sick man with the
disease.
The Wilson case on Oak street is doing
nicely. The Frost case at 200 Cedar
street is also getting along we'll The
Plunkett boy. on East Fourth street,
whose case developed Thursday, is not
very sick.
There is a doubt in the mind of DR..
Stephens as to his diagnosis Of the dis
ease, the doctor saying there Is still a
chance that the case is only one of chick
en- pox, but the symptoms are so similar
to those of smallpox that quarantine pre-
cautions are deemed necessary.
Day and night guards are being MAIN
tanned at all of the houses and no one is
allowed in or out.
DR. Stephens hopes to have a pesthouse
soon IN which to care for the patients.
He has talked to the commissioners on
the subject and urged in strong terms
that such house be erected. The diff
Guilty is in securing location, no prop
erty owner liking to allow his land to be
used for the purpose. ''It is not neces-
sary," said DR.. Stephens yesterday, chat
the pesthouse be several miles out in the
country All that is needed is an isolated
location and one 100 yards distant from
any building is quite as safe and as good
for all purposes as one further removed.
There need be no fear of infection from
such house, provided 1t is well and
faithfully guarded
"A good pesthouse can be erected in
euch manner as to be quite warm and
comfortable for the patients and at the
same time capable of being fumigated
and cleansed of all infection. The frame
of such house should be lined with felt
and then with sheet iron. The outside of
the frame should be weather boarded.
The sheet iron inside, on the termination
OF the disease. could be washed thor
oughly with bichloride solution and the
whole place disinfected. Then the house
could be left with safety until needed
again. house of this character would
not be very expensive and its erection
would be a measure of economy, for few
err guards would be needed there all the
cases could be concentrated and proper
care given all of them"