The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25
chanan. r. c. Reick. Fred wicker,
Maurice O'Connor. George III. Dunmeyer. T.
y. DIN. F. B. Brown.
DIR. BRAYTON'S RETURN.
Better to Keep Students i'm Valparaiso
than Have Them Scatter.

Or. A. W. Brayton returned last night
from his tour of inspection Of the smallpox
cases in Valparaiso and Shipshewana. DR..
Brayton said he and DR.. Spalding, chief
medical inspector of the Department of
Health OF Chicago, went TO VALPARAISO on
the same train. but neither knew the other.
I'VE went with DIR. Letherman, county
health officer, to the boarding houses
said DR.. Brayton. But few of the students
in the college live in the town or with the
people. but the boarding houses are in the
section known as college HILL A man
named Cooper came there from Mississippi
on March % and broke out with the disease
on April 10. The other students who have
it or have had it are Hussey. Hunter,
Crane. Baird. Lyle. Yoder. Miss Moore and
Miss Welcome. These are all students, and
but one case has developed outside the
school. and that was a boy named George
Files. who worked around the boarding
houses. He was sent to the county poor
farm and was there while sick. Lyle went
to his home at Strawtown and Yoder went
to his home at Shipshewana and gave it TO
all his family. After we had seen all the
cases DR.. Spalding asked me what / thought
and l said every case was smallpox, in my
opinion. DIR. Spalding said the only wonder
to him was that there had been no deaths:
Or. Spalding attended school there, had
kindly feelings for the institution and was a
boyhood friend of DR.. Letherman. The first
diagnosis of the disease as smallpox was
by DIR. Short, of Lagrange. who was called
to see Yoder when he was first taken home.
Professor kinsey co-operated with US In
every way and has established a hospital,
which is isolated from the other buildings.
The spring. term closed June 3 and many
OF the students have gone TO their homes.
About 2,OO0 are attending the summer term.
Nothing was to be gained by a quarantine
OF the town, and | did what | could to allay
fears and prevent anything like a panic.
DR.. Kinsey suspected the disease was small
pox, as he goes to the rooms OF all sick
students and had noticed a few days ago
that only those were taken sick who had
never been vaccinated. He first became sus-
picious on June 8. when five cases developed.
/ gave explicit directions as TO fumigating
the rooms, and DR.. Letherman and DR..
Beers. city health officer, are in earnest and
Will do all in their power to prevent any
further spread of the disease.
There Is no necessity of becoming alarmed
over IL. as the disease is mild. although fully
marked and developed. The eruptions in
and the bottom of the feet, which is sell
dom. II ever, the case in chickenpox. There
is no question in the world as TO the dis
ease. 1t is better to have the school in SEES
sion and keep the students there than to
have them spread all over the country.
d dhose s WnS were nDd SICK si T Ssre S Ssred ef for by
They are vaccinating generally now and
fully carrying out all orders. AT Shipshe-
WdUd Il IOuDQ one case lndt WAS as DdO DIS
any We have had here. that of Albert Yo-
der. II is a very sick man. but DIR. Short
Is caring for him and he deserves great
credit for at once recognizing the disease.
AS soon as DR.. Short was called he ordered
the family quarantined, so there has beer
no exposure there. Simon Yoder was the
student who had 1t first. When he went
home his sisters. Edna, aged eighteen, and
Ida. aged fifteen. his brother Albert, aged
twenty-eight, and who was married about
six weeks ago. and his wife. all caught II
and are sick now. The house is not only
guarded day and night, but the street Is
cut OF by wires and no one has been ex-
posed. The only other place Yoder went
was TO his sisters, a Mrs. Elizabeth Byler,
who lives a block away. She and her three
children. aged eight. six and four years. now
have Ii. but the same precautions have been
taken at their house. Simon Yoder is now
in the country near S~hipshewana."
DR.. Brayton thought il was entirely I'M
necessary to quarantine Shipshewana. and
80 reported TO the State Board of Health.
These were the cases that DR.. Freeman, of
Valparaiso. insisted were chickenpox. The
Shipshewana authorities and people are
wide awake to the necessity for taking pre-
cautions and vaccination has been very
general. In the vicinity are a number of
-Ammish. who refuse TO be vaccinated. DR..
Hurry yesterday afternoon telegraphed or
ders to raise the quarantine against Ship
shewana. and II was believed this action
was at once taken. DIR. Letherman tele-
graphed from Valparaiso that every order
had been complied with.