Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-04-26
EXPOSED GIRL WAS DOING A FAM
ILY WASHING.
ESCAPED FROM PEsTHoUsE
ANOTHER CASE REPORTED ON vIR,
GINA AVENUE.
Twelve Cases Have Been Discovered
in Kansas City, Kas., Within
the Past Two Dnys-NOne of
the Cases of q Violent
Form.

1t was reported yesterday that case
existed on Virginia avenue. between FIJI
teenth and Sixteenth as an offshoot OF the
case of DR.. T. c. Unthank at 14l6 Lydia
avenue. No report was made, however, 10
the police or health departments.
Stella Reed, a negro girl who lives with
her mother and sisters at 9o6 Bell street,
and who was exposed to the smallpox lot
several days while her mother was suf1er-
ing with the disease. was found yesterday
by Officers Reidy and Roger at the home
of a negro woman named Vina Brown, on
Ewing avenue, between st. Louis avenue
and Ninth street. and was sent to the pest
house in Kansas City, kas.. for treatment.
DIR. Russell, of the Kansas City, kas,
health department. is Of the opinion that
the girl is not suffering from the disease,
but in order TO guard against its spread in
the event it is discovered that she has the
disease. she was sent to the pesthouse.
When the health authorities of this city
discovered that a sister of Miss Reed had
the disease and that a man and two other
women who had been stopping with the
family at 956 Bell street had been exposed
to the disease, the police were notified to
keep close guard over the occupants Of the
house to prevent them from leaving the
premises. The Reed girl left home, however,
and went to Kansas City, Kas., where she
was found by the authorities of that city
she escaped from the pest house and went
to the home of Mrs. Brown, where she was
found yesterday doing a family washing:
She was returned to the pest house and viii
be kept there until it Is ascertained whether
or not she has the disease.
The members of the Reed family. who had
the disease. and the occupants of the house
who were exposed to 1t, are no longer in
danger, and the quarantine established by
tho health authorities will be raised at
once. In fact, the disease has been entirely
stamped out.
Twelve Cases In Kansas City, Kas.
Twelve cases Of smallpox have been dis
covered in Kansas City, Kas., during the
last two days. The afflicted people all live
within the vicinity of Seventh street and
New Jersey avenue, and are all colored.
The authorities are taking every precau-
tion against the spreading of the con-
tagion and 1t is believed that the warm
weather will soon stamp 1t out altogether.
iEappears that the physicians who have
been called to attend the victims before
the nature Of their illness became known
them to the proper authorities. In nearly
| each instance the afflicted have broken out
all over before the attending physicians
concluded that 1t was smallpox.
County Physician Clark and DR.. H. NJ
| board, appeared before the Kansas City,
Kas.., council at its meeting last night and
called that body's attention to the small
pox epidemic which has broken out in the
metropolis. DR.. Downs accompanied the
county physician to the dozen or more
| cases that had been reported yesterday
and he states that the dreaded contagion
has startling hold in Kansas City, kas
He intimated that the greatest precaution
on the part of the authorities was abso-
| lutely necessary to prevent disastrous
| epidemic.
| Upon the suggestion of DR.. Downs and
| the county physician the health committee
of the city council was instructed to Sc.
cure number Of large tents which are
to be erected In some isolated place north
of the city and into which every smallpox
patient is to be placed Immediate action
is to be taken. Aldermen Myers. Neale
and Mendenhall. who comprise the health
| committee, will meet to-day and make ar.
rangements for the tents and the remova
of the smallpox victims. The police de.
partment was also instructed to render
every possible assistance in keeping q
| strict quarantine.