El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-22

churches, etc. but generally go around
in the huts of the lowest of the low, no
doubt very often visit houses where
cases of smallpox exist, and carry the
germs in their clothing to Maine and
Oregon, endsnRering the unprotected
at such places"
AS to Juarez, Mexico, the city op-
posite Ell Paso, Tex, the Board of
Health of that city (Jusrez) exists to-
day on paper only. Very little, If any
effective work is done. Houses having
the disease are not quarantined. There
is no hospital in the city. Yellow pla-
cards are posted, warning the people
not to enter or leave the premises, but
no attention is paid to this. This
in the market place, ming
ling freely with the public, who
has five cases of smallpox In his family.
The Mexican character does not take
kindly to the restrictive work OF eani-
tation. While making recent house
to house visitation in Juarez found q
number of houses where there had been
smallpox. There were still a number
of children and grown persons who had
not been v8ccinated. l vaccinated all
such on the spot"
Speaking of the recent quarantine
and issuing of certificates for parties
passing back and forward the doctor
says: .;.,
this system was established. have
issued 5000 of these certificates. The
state quarantine officer and the city
health officer have each Issued 1000 of
the same certificates. L am every day
from 1Os m. to 6 p. m. at the GUS
tom guard house, people coming
from Mexico taking only this road,
and examine every one, without excep.
tiOn, for successful vaccination. return
ing Mexicans not vaccinated back TO
Jusrez and Americans back to Ell Paso,
Tex, to be vaccinated, and inform
them that they will be permitted to
pass as soon an 1 find that such as reed
it are yvsccinsted."
"My observation, and that OF the
customs inspectors who have had like
opportunity of judging the effects and
results of this system, Is highly gratl-
flying and satisfactory. There can be
no doubt that 1T Is having ap excellent
effect in ways almost too numerous to
mention. and we shall continue it until
we effect the entire suppression OF
smallpox in this locality, and until
every person from JuareZ desiring to
visit Ell Paso is successfully vacci-
nated.n
"The situation and the outlook ar e
very much improved and encouraging.
There can be no peddlipg of smallpox
now, as no communication is allowed
except by those who are willing to pay
and have paid the proper regard to the
sanitary law as regards vaccination.
Hundreds of Mexicans rather
than to be vaccinated, have turned
their backs to Ell Paso, and have re-
turned to Juarez. Hereafter bull
fights, chicken fights and other exhibi-
tiOns In JuareZ, sustained very largely
by American patronage from this side
of the river, can not succeed until and
unless the requirements of vaccination
have been complied with, and this will
be powerful factor in the case, as 1t
will touch, and not lightly, the pocket
books of the business community of
Juarez, as we'll as the pleasure-loving
and sporting people of Ell Paso" "
"Many, very many, young Mexican
clerks in the different commercial
houses at Juarez always passed to and
fro from Juarez to Ell Paso on errauds,
mated All such are refused admittance
until successfully vaccinsted, and
vast ma jority of them return in tim e
and prove that thev have complied
with what is required of them-suc-
cessful vaccination"
There were two cases of smallpox in
an isolated family living some six
miles from Juarez. About six weeks
after the children were absolutely
we'll, the father of the family had some
dealings with another man about four
miles from his home. This family
had two unprotected children, and in
about fifteen days afterward the chill
dren became sick with smallpox, the
germs no doubt having been brought
| to the home by the man living four
miles from the place. This know to
be a fact, because l attended both
| families"