The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-02
HALIFAX STREET FIRST
WILL REQUIRE SEVERAL WEEKS
TO COMPLETE.
Or. MCKEE SAYS IT WILL T6KE SIX WEEKS
Seven Negroes Detained in the House 10
Which Gre Young Lived. A House
My be Butt for Detention
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IN accordance with the resolution of
the Board of Aldermen Friday night
directing the free vaccination OF all per
sons in Raleigh township, Mayor Powe!i
yesterday morning appointed Drs. Ne
q acny and bufIaioe to do the vac
cinating.
DIR. Buffaloc takes all the territory on
the West side of Fayetteville and Hal
flax streets-extending half Il mile be
yond the corporate limits, and Or. Nc
Geachy is assigned TO the east side.
They will receive 500 each for their
services.
\ record is to be kept of all who are
vaccinated, all who recently have been,
and all who refuse to be. If necessary,
COMPULSORY vaccination will be resorted
TO.
The physicians will begin regular and
systematic vaccination Oh Monday. by
that time the 800 fresh vaccine points
telegraphed for on Friday night will
have arrived. After thai 800 points
will be sent every third day.
Vaccination will begin on Halifax
street. at Edenton street, and will he
continued thoroughly and systematic
ally until it is completed or the board Of
aldermen says stop. The physicians APP
pointed to do the work will go frol
housS to house, up one side OF the street
and down the other.
How long do you think it viii take
you?" | asked DIR. McGeachy.
"Oh, | think | can complete my half
of the work in three weeks" nc replied.
II could do it i'll less time than thar,
but my territory exttnds half mile
beyond the corporate limits, and includes
Pilot cotton mills, st. Augustine School,
Soldiers Home and other thickly set
tied communities not in the city.
DIR. Mckee. the superintendent of
health. thinks, however, that they will
be doing wen to finish the job in six
weeks.
why it would take them that long,
working every day without Interruption.
bJ ginning at Z O'Clock every morning.
taking an hour for dinner and quitting at
Z at night.
At the meeting Of the board Friday,
night DR.. Mckee asked that an ordin-
ance be passed requiring all children at
tending the public schools to either be
yaccinated or to present q certificate
from a physician saying they had al
ready been successfully >sccInared.
For political reasons the ordinance
was not passed.
Seven negroes-two men, three wo-
men and two children--who lived in the
house with Carrie Young, the negro
woman now III the pest house, are under
a strict quarantine. One of them, Mary
Tinberlake, tried to escape. She went
to Wake Forest, but was arrested there
and brought back last night.
Another one, Horace Falcon, escaped
detention until yesterday morning. And
even when caught he refused to 20 into
the house, but sat around in the yard the
greater part of the day.
The inmates of this house. which is
on North street. near the corner of Me
Dowell, now are: Mary Timberlake,
Horace Falcon, Laura Johnson, Ben
Falcon, Julius Cesar Falcon, Mary
Falcon and two children. They will
be kept in quarantine for fourteen days
Health Officer Sale says that Il deten-
ton house may be built next week near
the pest house on the Holleman road
for such cases as the above. 1t viii
probably be four room house The
contract, he thinks, Will be let Monday or
Tuesday. 1t will cost about 5000.