The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-02
ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX
ASSISTANT HEALTH COMMIssroNCp
PICKS ONE UP IN A SEW
ENTH STREET STORE
COlored Man Who Says He Landed
In st. Paul From the West Yes
terday-The Other Cases Are Do
Ing Well, Say the Authorities.

terday-The Other Cases Are Do
ing Well, Say the Authorities.
Unexpectedly Assistant Health Com
missioner Miller last evening discover
ed what is thought to be another case
OF smallpox. The afflicted Individual
is Kit Carter. a negro, lodging at 246
East Seventh street. A form Of errup-
ton. suspiciously like the first symp-
toms OF smallpox. covers his body. He
was quarantined in his room and a
quarantine also placed upon the lode-
ing house. There are five other negroes
living in the house. one woman and
four men.
DR.. Miller ran across Carter in a fruit
store at 173 East Seventh street shortly
after 10 o'clock. The health commits
sioner was purchasing some fruit when
Carter entered the place. DR.. Miller at
once noticed an eruption on Carter's
face. He stopped the negro as he left
the store and interrogated him. The
closer he examined the eruptions the
more convinced was DR.. Miller that
Carter might be afflicted with small
pox. DR.. Miller called Police Sergeant
Mccarthy and turned the negro over to
the officer with instructions that Carter
be guarded in his room and not allowed
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Miller notified Capt. Rouleau of the
suspicious case and requested that
policemen be detailed to enforce the
quarantine placed upon the lodging
house. Officer Speakman was placed at
the front door, while Officer Mccormick
was put on guard at the rear entrance.
both with strict orders neither to per-
NIT anyone to enter or to leave the
building.
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Miller notified Health Inspector Senks,
who has handled the other recent small
pox cases. Inspector Senks left his
home and called upon DR.. Miller. To-
gether they visited the afflicted negro
shortly before 1 o'clock this morning
and made more careful examination
Of the case. Inspector Senks said the
case bore a serious aspect. A more
thorough examination will be made
early this morning. when an accurate
diagnosis will probably result. If it
should turn out that Carter has the
smallpox he will be at once removed
to the pest house.
Little can be learned about Carter.
He says he only reached St. Paul yes
terday, claiming to have come from
Spokane, Wash. He told the phys1-
clans that the eruptions first appeared
on his body last Thursday. He says
he has not been about much since
reaching the city, but 1t is difficult to
tell with how many persons with whom
he may have come in contact. None OF
the five people in the block with Car
ter. it is said, have been in his room,
or close to him for any length of time.
The quarantine will be as strictly en-
forced as concerns them, however, as
upon the subject, until the nature of
Carriers disease is definitely known.
The health authorities say that no
other cases of smallpox have developed
in the districts under quarantine. An
tone Vacci, the Italian discovered with
the disease on the upper flats, is doing
nicely at the pest house, and no addi-
tional cases have come to light on the
flats.
The home Of George H. Benton, 1877
West Seventh street, is still under
Quarantine, but neither Mrs. Benton
nor her sister-in-law has shown any
symptoms of having contracted the
disease Benton is quite i'll at the pest
house, as the disease in his case is at
it's height. DR.. Miller says, however.
that it is more vareoloid than genuine
virulent smallpox, and that Benton
will undoubtedly recover.
The health department has taken the
precaution to keep under continual
surveillance a number of persons whom
it is known have come in contact with
the disease, but this Is said to be
precautionary measure, rather than
one demanded by the presence of dan
GER.