Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-12
READY TO VACC|NATE,
Board Of Health Perfects Plans
for Doing This Work.
70 DOCTORS TO Be ENGAGED.
They Have Been Chosen and Each Will
HaVe a District.
TO DE MADE VERY THOROUGH.
Special Efforts VIII BE Made Not to
Overlook Apybody-One or More
COIored Physicians May BE Selected
for Jackson ward.
TO DE MADE VERY THOROUGH
Special Efforts VIII BE Made Not to

The members OF the Board OF Health
met in the City Hall last night and COM
pleted arrangements for the house TO
house vaccination advocated by the pres
ident of the board and ratified by the
Council as a precautionary measure
against the spread of smallpox from Nor
folk, Newport News, and Petersburg.
The work will be placed in the hands
Of twenty physicians, each of whom Will
be assigned TO a district. Rules and regu-
lations have been drafted for the guidance
and direction of the doctors, and
record books have been ordered which
will show exactly what each one accom-
plishes. The vaccination will be free to
all. and ii is proposed to vaccinate every
child over 3 months old, and younger ones.
If requested, as we'll as all men and wo-
men. Only those will be exempt who
have been successfully vaccinated within
the last seven years.
The resolution appropriating 5000 for
carrying out this plan was not signed
by the Mayor yesterday. as II has not yet
been engrossed. 1t is probable, however,
that it will be signed to-day. and the
board expects to begin the work next
Monday.
THE DOCTORS CHOSEN.
The doctors elected by the board last
night are: Mcclure Newton. w. j. West,
Edmund Harrison, ID. c. Morris, f. II.
Harker, b. l.. Hilsman, J. G. Watson. f.
Bright, A. Nichols. j. Curd. NJ. X. Pey-
ser, w. Ii. Lyme, ST. Julian Oppenheimer,
f. RI. Beadles, W. S. Beasley, o. f. Blank
enship w. l.. Pepe, T. j. Riddle, and
Edwin Hobson.
These doctors are requested to meet the
members OF the Board of Health in the
office of the board on Saturday night at
$50 o'clock when they will receive the
needles, virus, and books.
Before this meeting the board will have
divided the map Of the city into
twenty parts, and each doctor will be
expected TO visit every house in the par
ticular section to which he may be as
signed.
ABANDON THE IDEA OF STATIONS.
The idea Of establishing two stations
the one in the upper and the other in the
lower part Of the city-Where people who
are not reached by the house to house
vaccination may go TO be inoculated, has
been abandoned.
A particular effort will be made TO reach
the colored population, and it is probable
that the name of a cOlored doctor Will
be added 10 the above list, and that he
Will be assigned TO Jackson Ward. or. at
least, TO that part of it which Is settled
exclusively by coored people.
The work of the Board Of Health, In
view of the situation, has been so mate
rally increased that request will be sent
to the Health Committee tonight for
a clerk to keep the records Of the meet
ings.
REPORTS FROM INFECTED CITIES.
The latest advices from the cities where
smallpox is prevalent are not encourage
ing, and the board expresses the
earnest hope that no opposition will be
met with in carrying out the plans.
4 member Of the State board visited
the infected cities on Wednesday. At
Newport News he found that there were
five cases (all colored). The health
authorities had had them removed to
pest-house half a mile from the city,
general system of vaccination had been
adopted. and the disease is well under
control.
From Newport News he went over to
Norfolk, and was told that there were
eighty cases of the disease. He suspect
ed, from observation, however, that there
are more. The majority Of the patients
are colored, but there are few whites.
All Of the cases have been removed TO a
pest-house outside Of the city.
The State Board of Health viii not at
present recommend the establishment of
a quarantine against the infected places,
but will send out suggestions 10 the vari-
Gus towns TO take steps which will result
in giving them almost absolute security
from the disease.