Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-02-22

,a,tape of Deaths Is Sma1l-Health
n.ords Taking Every Precaution.
oImost all sections OF the coun-
L-,+ particularly from the Middle
!' ,rr and Southern States, come re-
ss that smallpox is epidemic. The dis
y" n,orifests some peculiar features,
for it is much less virulent than
O 'oI and in many cases delay in COM
S1 0:nn # has resulted from it's being at
totpn for chickenpox. While there
pr. Inv INV. cases-in Caldwell County, KY,
:. estimated that half the residents are
sing from it-there are few deaths.
ts endemic seems to avoid the large
;.;.s and. passing over the centers Of
.tion. to strike into small country
orns and villages. Chicago, for instance,
as had fewer than dozen cases this
aar but at least 700 have been reported
t~angbout southern Illinois, of which
Wv four have resulted fatally.
/ Generally accepted theory is that the
;saasp has been brought from Cuba,
orto Rico and the Philippines by re-
lrning soldiers.
Much alarm now prevails in the infect
districts, where at first the warnings
tba phvsicians who recognized the
mn4oms were scoffed at. Commercial
jewelers. find great difficulty in getting
bort through some rural communities
.irr TO local quarantine regulations,
Eboos are closed, and at points along the
onadian frontier mails have been de-
rod through controversies between the
Espadian and United States postal au-
oities as to which shall undertake the
mication of the mail sacks.
kentucky seems to be the principal
foror, In that State thirty-five coun-
IS orp affected. and a dozen county
O,rds of health have resigned because
10y have no money with which to light
pIague. There is more smallpox In
|rnceon than elsewhere, and Paducah
mps next. DR.. J. N. Mccormick of
State Board of Health has contribut-
$1,000 out of his own pocket with
hich to fight the disease.
Thousands of Cases.
dr. ], y. Hurry of the Indiana State
hsri of Health, in q warning to the
bic, reports that there are between
EO0 and 1000 cases in the State of In
|apa and that the disease is epidemic in
m counties. Five cases have developed
sOng the students at the Indiana Uni
rSity at Bloomington.
Before the Mississippi State Legisla-
Ne at Jackson, Secretary Hunter of
State Board of Health, in arguing
measure to establish compulsory
Gnation. said there had been 40 cases
smallpox in that city since last Sep
nber, and 1000 cases and several
aths throughout the State in the same
iOd
y Birmingham, Scottsboro and CORTLAND,
i. report much smallpox in the sur
binding countryside, and in Chattanoo-
Tenn, thirteen new cases recently
y eared in a single day. Spokane,
= ash, last week reported thirty nine
s but all recovering. Kansas has
a. abiShed rigid quarantine against
:, Tgal counties in Oklahoma Territory,
N, guards have been stationed along the
to bic line Trains to Woodward, Okla,
"a, recently been abandoned on account
ac the infection. Smallpox exists in near
de Every town of the Cherokee Nation in
m Aln Territory, and the Cherokee Ma
er bal Board has issued a proclamation
,or yAs compulsory vaccination upon all.
oes he disease seems to be spreading IN
: d Gado. Michigan, Minnesota and
,en l Dakota, however. are almost free
Id! D it. A few isolated cases have APP
red Ped in Massachusetts, but there the
eve ae appears to be we'll under control.
ona lens Of Pine Bluff, Ark, have organ
ron to fight their Mayors proclamation
ID Png compulsory vaccination, while
sett Savannah, Ca, an appeal has been
ler eN Surgeon General Wyman to have
se Marine Hospital Service take charge
,Spd 4e situation in Georgia.