Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-26
SMALLPOX IN
COUNTY JAIL
ONE OF THE PRISONERS EXHIB-
ITS ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF
OF THE DISEASE,
aTHE PRISONERS ARE
THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENED
Health Officers Have Begun War on
the People Who Fail to Observe
Health Regulations.

A sensation was caused in the county
Jail this morning by the discovery of a
smallpox patient in the midst of the
J. prisoners. Every man in the Jail wanted
tSto change his boarding house. but the
sheriff would not hear of it, and his
/ quarantine is more strict than any that
could be maintained by the health Off
| ce:'
The patient is James Mccarthy, who
| was convicted of being vagrant and he
has been in the county institution for IA
| days. Every inmate of the part OF the
| Jail in which Mccarthy has been con-
| fined has been exposed to the disease, and
the chances are that there will be other
cases developed before the lapse of many
| days. Many of the prisoners were thor
! oughly frightened when the case was an
nounced while others looked upon the af
| fair as a good joke.
| Mccarthy was taken to the detention
| hospital and from there to the pest house
! where a thorough examination will be
| made to make sure that he is not suffer-
| ing from an overdose OF croton oil. The
| application of croton oil to the skin pro-
! duces rash very closely resembling
| the postules of smallpox and the decep-
tion can only be detected by experienced
| eyes. In times past in other states, pris-
| oners have effected their escape through
the medium of croton oil. Apparently
| breaking out with smallpox they are sent
| to the pest house and from there their
! escape is easily effected. Mccarthy may
have the real thing. but Dr.. Sullivan
will inquire closely into his case.
W. f. Dilly, who gave his residence as
| West Broadway, was sent to the pest
house yesterday. He made his appear
| %l1 ,;t hall ,,I S,,y,
day there was no one in the Office. He
waited at the head of the stairs until
! one of the employees of the city engi-
neer's department made his appearance
and then told the latter that "a certain
| prominent doctor had told him that he
| was broken out with the smallpox and
| to report at the city hall. The things that
| the deputy official said to the man would
! not look nice in public print but among
| other things he told the disease-laden
! man to report at the detention hospital.
| Dlly, so the official says, gave him the
! great equine ha, ha, and seemed to think
that he had perpetrated All excellent joke
! but seeing that the official was looking
! corner of Main and Broadway, with a
| Watching from the window the official
sawaDiHy sningla With the crowd at the
! corner of Main and Broadway with a
| criminal disregaaN for the health of the
people whom he brushed UP against.
| A suspected case Of smallpox was re-
ported just north of the Centennial
| mill. south of the B. A. & P. tracks, this
morning.
The health officers say that the physi-
! clans of the city, or at least number
of them are guilty of criminal negligence
in sending smallpox patients to the city
| n detention hOSnit2 l.
They say that it is just as easy to send
| the sick people to the detention hospital
| as it is to send them to the city hall,
| where they expose many people, not only
in the building but in the crowds through
| which they have to pass. las yet no new
quarters have been secured for the de-
tention hospital, and the owners of the
ground on which it stands have given
public notice that they will require the
premises on the first of the month. If
some suitable location in the same neigh
borhood can be secured the house will be
put on wheels and moved. Just what
will be done is at present a matter of
| conjecture
Health Officer McGin1ey has cour,ssenc-
ed war against the people -, fail to OBJ
serve health regulations, and this morn
ing swore to complaints charging Mrs. o.
p. Valby and Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Hogan,
of Is West Gagnon street, with maintain
ing a nuisance The nuisance consists
of emptying foul water and refuse in the
alley. The health officer states that there
are many cases of like nature and he
intends to prosecute every one of them
if the practice is not stopped. Many peo-
Pile living in houses that have no sewer
connections dump their slops in the alley
and endanger the health of many people
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