The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-12-28

SPARTANBURG AND UNION.
They Protest That the Smallpox
There is not of Character to
Cause Alarm to Visitors.

Tres fcNPhlS EptElnG alar!aiH iHg. In
fact Druc!. less is h curi OF smallpox in
the towns of Union and Sptrtanbucg
than is hoard at other places con-
ccrri"g y" situation Ut these
puiri~ he Board Of Health
at Irion aLd Sp.,t"uaU"g have
nGu;lri as stringent we,SureS
as i = S-iblr arh every prrrau''NI is
Systematically worked THROUGH tr..--
organizations W here lnr,r sr-. 1t
few cases ct SuInisr, IA i,t.>e i'rul-
tiles there Is no III hre than h;. hr,'u
the Gaze for two N-HrS. So ] WAS rr-
liable informed ut both t"wnS. l)r.
Evans r-roct Of The ) p,rCInbu x lit.
ultiou is ~ ,tifytng All UnLnjIpLSiy
endorsed hy ali with whum : StuSSed
the situation
At Union was. officially arI ne
curatelv informed that the !,,ut;e e,i
death of Mrs. Carter from smallpox
was Il mistake, AZ her death resulted
icGm an entirJ ly different cause. Both
% these towns are somewhat # cos
mopolitan dimensions and growth,
and new cnterSpriseS constantly being
iuborers. J. is extremely difficult
to have perfect control Of such a Sit
| INtion, but in - far as this can be
| done nothing remninS urdn0o.
The business men Of UuiDn and
| Sbartaubur% feels much aggrieved at
rcpertS which Will cause material
damage to the holiday trade, if not
! to the towns Interested. They very
much deprecatc the al"rning reports
.'ent OUT and certain it is That at both
| places there were no visible INTERIM ..
ion that denoted any cause for special
alarm. SO far as the real facts of tn"
| situation are concerned it seems that
! fear Of the disease has eXagg Grated
the real dangers Of the situation.
J. f. y.
We clip the above from Friday :
issue Of the News ard Courier. We
are very glad that this widely circu-
lated journal sent its representative,
| Mr.. J. +. Normeut, to investigate
ihe small pox situation here. His
report substantiatcs our statement
| that the seriousness of the situation
has been Greatiy exaggerated. We
have some cases here, it is true, but
it has been scattered about over the
S5atc, here a Veil rs elsewhere, for
the past two years, AMI with the prO-
pie being vaccinated SO rapidly that
IN average Of POO points per week are
used, we cannot see that the situa-
tion is 1t all alarming, and see no
reason for it becoming so if the Board
of Health will use proper precnutiou-
AIRY measures and enforce the quar-
anime or premises, when ii is once
put on. But the putting up Of II ilag
IL case OF small poN within, while the
Inmates are allowed to 90 out at iii ir
Eleasure and minglo with the people
on the streets or elsewhere, is not the
Nnd Of u quarantine that is going
to have The desired effect. Ii we are
going to quarantine let be made cf-
fcctive, and let it be distinctly under
stood that the inmate who wilfully
goes out from n quarraEtiucd house
subjects himself to arrest AID conAnc-
mcnt in the pest house.
We doubt if there are more cases
in Union than in some Of the towns
whose papers have been 50 indus
trously spreading the letter regarding
the small poX situation in UrTon.
.Ae people generally are ready and