Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-11


and reported at 8 O'Clock the following
resolution, INTRODUCED by Mr.. Henry:
he 1t resolved. by the board OF
health OF Marshalltown, Iowa, That.
on account Of the fact that only one
new case has resulted since the
meeting Saturday, May S, and as
the new Emergency Hospital will
be completed this week, and small
pox patients can be removed there's
to by the first Of next week, and as
at several places the guarantees
will be raised at once, the resolution 4
adopted on that date. quarantininE
the schools, churches. secret socie-
ties, etc, be rescinded May 10, 1900.
DIR. G. w. Harris at once offered an
amendment to the resolution, making
the date the 18th instead of the 18th.
but there was. altho not strange to say,
no second TO the motion.
Dr. n. II. Nichols. the health physi-
clan, reported that there was no one
dangerously Ill, altho there were four
of the patients who We're more sicA
than others.
The Emergency Hospital plans were
talked Of to some extent and a COM
mittee composed OF Messrs. Good, Fish
er and Kirby was appointed to secure
nurses and iron bedsteads for the
building. A contract for telephone
for the hospital was let to the Marshall
Telephone Company. and T. L. Hall
was awarded the contract for the cleo
tric lighting Of the building. Messrs.
Harris, Fisher and Henry were APP
l.pointed on committee. to purchase a
lformal-de-hydet gas generator for use
lsof disnfection and the city physician
was employed to disinfect all housed
4 that have been under quarantine, for
which he is to be paid So each.
DR. HARRIS TALKS SENSE.
DR.. Harris, who is chairman Of the
Health and sanitation committee OF the
on the board took decided stand in
A his position In regard to the recent ac-.
4 ton OF the board in quarantining the
schools. churches, etc., and said that
he thought the action entirely unneces-
sary and that he did not consider tha
disease as it existed in Marshalltown ia
all. He said the board had made a
mistake in paralyzing the business in
terests OF the city in a moment Of
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record as being entirely conscientious
in his motion for the amendmentt to tho
4 evenings resolution. which, il carried.
would have rescinded Saturday even
a ing's resolution this morning instead Ct
next Sunday morning.
THE OFFICIAL RECORD.
n "A careful examination of the quaran-
tine record. giving the number Of cases.
street addresses, dates and time when
released, shows the situation to be Just
as reported in these columns Monday,
that there are under quarantine in
Marshalltown thfrty-one houses. This
& is just about $50 less than the smallest
estimate made In outside towns, which
have been disgracefully eager to spread
I false and malicious stories about Mar
shalltown for business purposes. In
some Of the houses quarantined, how
4 lever, there are more than one case, ow-
ing to the fact that the patient first
afflicted had to be kept in the house
I for want Of some better place to take
I him., consequently those about him
) were subject to contagion. This fact.
Z however, makes the situation no more
: difficult to cope with or no more dam
, gerous, for three cases in house
MAKE inc UlSed6e ITO aIIlOTe contagious
Slthan one. It would be interesting to
! the public IL an interview could be Sc
I lcured from the smallpox patients and
lit could be shown just how they feel
Z Miss Mildred Mason. on whose account
I 1.-The board became frightened and
) 3closed the schools, churches, etc. has
I dressed and about the house, looking
= xt.1 n n n,
every other person sick says that the
S.antine, for they experience no discom.
! future from the disease. Nevertheless
: 4 tho this be true. 1t gives no license 10,
4 less care. It's well and proper that the
. board use due care, such as SHOULD
\ and which would have made the re-
) cent radical action unnecessary.
CONVENTIONS WILL MEET.
: Luckily the recent quarantine viii
SInot AFFECT two OF the larger state gath
erings that Marshalltown is to enter
: tain week after next-the state conven
8 ton OF postmasters and the Stat
- Sportsmen's Association. Since the. re
cent action OF the board inquiry afte
inquiry and telegram after Telegram
nave OcSIl 6GuI ~ A9OSllbocNSl sam
from the Iowa postmasters and to Sec
retary Abbott. of the sportsmen's asso
! citation, by the different Iowa mem
I bers. asking II the arrangements woul
be interfered with. A general scar
seems to have prevailed and 1t ha
kept these gentlemen busy answerin
1.-THE queries. Both Of these convention
will be held, however. and there is n
4 tmore danger than there would be 4
there had never been case Of small
pox heard Of in Marshalltown. In fac
the greater number OF delegates to eac
OF the gatherings will come from cite
In Iowa where there Is really NOR
.smallpox than there 10 in Marshall
town. but where there Isn't so muc
heard OF 1t from outside points on &C
- count OF a little more careful action Q
e the part OF the boards Of health.
y The annual gathering and cslebratio
q NorweGians on the nth, NEXT Thur
Il a.. win b observed according 70 u