The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-29

ders. The mayor and the board of
health thought this matter ought 10 be
presented to the council so that we
might know your wishes. If you want
a pest house it will take considerable
money, but if you order it we will es-
tablish one"
Were there not some cases down in
the Santa Fe yards?' asked Council
man Hughes.
Yes" said DR.. Peers, s'one of the
Santa Fe linemen attended an enter
tainment at the reform school at which
Clarence Scott took part Immediately
afterwards he went to POnca, and
about two weeks afterwards he broke
out with this disease. Three other men
had been sleeping in the same room he
did, all inemen- This man came up
to the Santa Fe hospital. DR.. Kaster
locked him in a room and sent for me
/ saw he had the same thing Clarence
time he had been out to the reform
school. I ordered him kept isolated, but
Dr. Kaster asked to have number of
physicians brought there to pass on the
case, as he would not have a case of
smallpox in the hospital under any cir
cumStanceS. 1 took several doctors
down with me, but when we got there
we found our man was gone. He had
craWled out of a window and escaped.
DR.. KaSter drove around the city trying
to find him, but did not succeed. We
afterwards learned that he went to the
home of friends here
About two weeks afterwards two of
this mans associates came up from
POnca with the same disease. They
We're put in an isolated freight car in
the yards, and quarantined. After they
recovered the car and everything about
it was thoroughly fumigated|
Did not men pass close by that car
and talk to those men?" asked General
Hughes.
mo, I think not" said DR.. Peers.
4 am quite positive that they did"
replied General Hughes.
I do not see how that could have
been possible said DR.. Peers, except
one coIored man, who had the smallpox
and who went to the car against or
ders-"
I know another man." said General
Hughes. who went to the car door and
talked to those men without knowing
they had a ntagiOus disease"
The other members of the board of
health were called upon for their Opin-
ions of the disease, and DR.. Wallace
4 am satisfied that it is not small
pOX. I have not had much experience
with the disease, except in my own
have this disease do not have the synp-
toms I had. The eTuptiOns in smallpox
begin deep, while those with this dis
ease begin shallow"
DR.. Swan, who is secretary of the
state board of health, and as such has
been investigating the smallpox epi-
demic at Joplin and Springfield, No,
and quaranining Kansas against it,
said.
I do not believe this disease is small
pOx. Within the past 80 days I have
seen 10 or 20 cases of smallpox and 100
to $50 cases of this disease. Six weeks
ago the city council of Galena, fearing
the repetition of a smallpox epidemic
which came from Joplin a few years
ago, in which there were 1S0' cases and
130 deaths. became alarmed and sent
for me. Joplin and Springfield. No,
have had smallpox since last July
called the state board of health togeth-
er and esUa bliShed an interstate quar-
antine, which was maintained until
there was no longer any danger of the
disease coming over into Kansas
I made a personal examination of
every case in Springfield and Joplin. At
Springfield there were 60 cases in the
pest house. Thirty-f1ve patients had
this other disease. but am not pre-
pared to say what it is. At Joplin there
were % cases in the pest house and 10
OF them were smallpox, and the 9TH
ers were this disease.
Il think as have made an examination
Of these diseases side by side that I