The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-15
MARY UNDERTAKE DEAD
WAS In QUARANTINE WITH SIN
OTHER NEGROES.
SMALLPOX CASE AT THE FISHER FARM
The Patient Negro Woman Named SINE
Ruffin. Taken 10 the Pest House Yester-
day. DR.. Digger Employed as Ply
stefan al Pest House.

The first death from small pox in this
city occurred yesterday.
At 9 O'Clock yesterday morning, at her
home ON North street, Mary Undertake
died of congestion of the lungs.
The congestion, however, was brought
ON by an incipient but acute attack of
small poX.
The woman complained Of being un-
well Thursday night about s O'Clock and
the doctor prescribed for her. never
imagining that her illness was in any
way serious. as she had not broken out
and allowed NO symptoms of small
pox Yesterday morning she had another
err attack and died.
The mother of the dead woman, who
lives at Wake Forest. was notified and
the body was immediately prepared for
burial. 1t was wrapped in sheets thor
oughtly saturated i'll bichloride of mer-
curry. and yesterday afternoon it was
inferred in Mt. Hope cemetery. at city
expense.
The work of preparing the body aud
i1urying it was done by VIM Wise. n
negro from South Carolina who is all
of the health department He burned
the clothes worn while preparing the
body fer burial.
The Timberlake woman was one Of
seven negroes held in quarantine at the
house of Carrie Young, who is now in
the pest house with small pox. 1t will be
remembered that when Carrie Youne
was pronounced with small pox Mary
Timber1ake ran away and went to Wake
Forest, where she was apprehended and
sent back. When brought TO Raleigh
she and six others We're quarantined in
the house where they and Carrie Young
had lived. The remaining occupants
of this house are Laura johnson, Horace
and Ben Falcon, their mother. and two
children. None of these have vet shown
any small pox symptoms. They were
aid vaccnated at the time they were
quarantined.
About the same hour that Mary Tim
berlake was dying it was reported to
Sanitary Inspector Sale that case of
small pox had been discovered on the
Fisher farm. several miles northeast of
the city. The patient was Sine Ruffin.
a negro woman.
As soon as DIR. Ellis. the county ply
stefan, had pronounced it genuine case.
of small pox, City Health OFFICER Sale.
at the request of the county authorities.
went out and brought the woman to the
pest house
1t was ascertained that nine other
persons in the immediate family and in
the neighborhood had come in contact
with the Hsuffian woman during her
illness. and these We're vaccinated and
quarantined to prevent further spread
of the disease
There are now four smallpox patients
in the pest house: Carrie Young, Julius
Caesar Falcon. Charles Herndon and
Sine Ruffin. The first two named have
about recovered and will probably be
released Monday.
Heretofore there has been no physi,
clan at the pest house To-day DIR
Digger, an immune who has been an
inmate of the Soldiers Home, will be
sent out there.
Work on the house of detention is be
ing pushed as rapidly as possible. II
will soon be completed
In this connection it ought to be
stated that the people of Raleigh owe
so far looked after the smallpox situation
in wise. careful manner. Only by his
prompt and fearless management and
by untiring energy and watchfuness
he has brought to bear on the situa.
ton, has the city been thus far saved
from an epidemic. In this work he has
been assisted in every way possible by
the physicians in the city.