The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-25
1neXcusable CAreIessness In
Treating Cuban ChiekenpOx.
Quarantine Not as Stringent as
Should Be.
DISEASE is SERIOUS.
People Disf1gured For Life by
Its Ravages.
Doctors Disagree About Nature
of the Disease.

Some effectuaI method should be en-
ployed to stop the spreading Of the Gu
ban chickenpox.'
A quarantine has been ordered by the
city board of health but in the city
jail a case was kept for two days and
was then turned out. At present there
is no quarantine further than lacking
cards up on houses where the disease
is and then going around in a week
or two and burning sulphur which
drives everything else out of the house,
if it doesn't the germs The quaran-
tine does not keep the members of the
family, in which there is a case of the
disease, from leaving the house and
mingling with people. Something
should be done to stop this disease,
whatever it is. In other towns where
a malignant epidemic of smallpox has
appeared an effectual quarantine has
stopped the disease from spreading.
The epidemic in Topeka is certainly not
as severe as malignant smallpox and
proper means would stop its spreading.
DR.. H B. HOgebOOm said: The city
should have a pest house outside the
city limits and all cases of this social
ed Cuban chickenpOx" should be taken
there. This is the only way to stop the
spreading of the disease. 1 think that
two or three months ago, when the
boys at the Reform school were sick
that there was chickenpoX here. I
believe that chickenpOx ana smallpox
may be prevalent at the same time and
I think that some of the cases I have
seen in Topeka are not chiCkenpOx. II
it is not smallpox. what is it? 1 do
not believe a detention hospital is the
right thing, but that a building should
be secured at once to use as a hospital
and the cases moved there at once"
DR.. Charles Lowry said: "A thorough
quarantine would stamp ont this cpl
demic. AS soon as the cases appear
they should be thoroughly isolated.
The people do not feel that the disease
is serious enough to demand a quaran-
tine so strict that no member of the
family may leave the house, but the
people sick with the disease should be
strictly quaranuned.
Mayor Drew said: 1.-THE epidemic of
chickenpOX is decreasing. If a rigid
quarantine is kept up the disease will
not spread and will die out. The only
bad case L have seen is that of Jordan,
who was taken sick in the city Jail
He had no place to 60 and could not
be kept in Jail so arrangements were
made for him to be taken to the Saliva
ton Army hospital. He wanted to be
allowed to go to ROSSVllle where he has
friends. 1 would not give him that per
mission so he ran away from the Saliva
ton Army hospital and probably went
there. Seems to me that the greatest
part OF the uprOar comes from near the
Santa Fe depot where a man by the
name of Verlin has the Fourth street
hotel for sale. He had a case or two
in his hotel. A man by the name of
Shoaf, who keeps a hotel near by, re-
ported that he had case or two in his
hotel and wished to move them into
Nerlin'S hotel so all would be together.
Verlin consented and that permission
was given. When he had gotten the
cases in his hotel he wanted to sell out
to the city for $3.50. I think the worse
thing about this epidemic is the talk
that Will be going on about Topeka.
People will be afraid to come here This
disease is not smallpox. We had small
pox on my gunbOat during the war. I
saw several cases and 1 know positive
/
The records in the office of the sani-
tary police shows the following cases
of Cuban chicken pox'' as reported:
George Demumber, North Central
avenue; Lucy Demumber, North Cen
trail avenue; Florence Demumber
North Central avenue: Geo. Harris, 216
West First street; Emma Moody. 400
Adams street; Aaron Brown, 129 North
Monroe street; Matte Brown, 129 North
Monroe street: Frank BradfeId Lake
and Fourteenth; Lucia Lynch Lake
and Fourteenth; Daniel Johnson, 213
North Madison; Thomas Johnson, 213
North Madison; Pearl Owens, 1857 JEFF
ferSon; AVaIine Peers. 1924 Topeka ave-
street; Hattie George, 422 East First;
- MCGEE, 1906 Van Buren,: Carrie
Henry, 1925 Quincy; Thomas Roberts,
401 Crane; Clifford Newman S31 North
Clay; Gertie Taylor, 1904 North Monroe;
C Taylor, 1904 North Monroe: Clarence
Odum, 1904 North Monroe. c. L. Wilson,
1929 Madison; Thomas Butler, Alb Crane;
Alexandra Reynolds, 512 East First: J.
r. Posey, 922 West Eighth; J. w. Ad-
ans, 524 Grant; E J. Amy. los n. Kan
sas avenue; Robert Long, pa East
Crane; Roy Jamison, 401 Lake; Emma
Roller. Salvation Army hospital; Edison
Wilson, 10 Park Place; White,
1917 Van Buren,; NJ. Cunningham, 119 n.
Adams; M. Lawrence, Ala East First;
Betty McCough, SIC East First; Adams
Harris, PIG West First.