Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-10
Still MORE SMALLPOX.
The Disease Known to Exist in
Suburb of City Of Des
Moines.
Health Board Takes Rigorous Steps
to Stamp Out the Dread
scourge.
Young Man of Roland Enters Phil.
ippine Postal service-News
Of Iowa.

Des Moines, Jan. 10-smalpox, which
has been reported for three or four
months past in different portions of the.
state. has made its appearance at
Youngstown, in the Immediate vicinity
of The 6'hristy coal mine, four miles
east of the city. -Four we'll defined
cases of tie disease arc kno#a to exist.
while two more are expected to develop
in another family within a few days.
Two days ago DR. Waller. OF the
east side. was summoned to attend the
family of John Herring, colored, al
Youngstown. DIR. Waller suspected the
malady was smallpox, but reluctant to
give unnecessary alarm. he decided to
Keep the eases under surveillance and
await developments. He learned yes
terday that Herring had come TO Des
Moines from a small mining camp in
Oklahoma, and upon pressing inquiries
upon the man, was told he had been an
inmate of pest house for several
weeks before leaving Oklahoma, but
had been discharged upon authority of
the attending physician as cured.
Close investigation satisfied DR. Wal.
ger that Herring was not telling the
whole truth. and he suspected that he
had managed to effect his escape from.
the pest house and made his way to
Des Moines. This suspicion crystalized.
into fixed belief when one of the miners
told the doctor that Herring had been
lin and confined to the house fer four
or five weeks, in fact, ever since him
self and family had arrived at Youngs-
| town. DR.. Waller called Dr. Fred
Wells in for consultation and following
an Investigation yesterday they de-
clared the disease with which the fam
| lily, composed of Herring, his wife and
two children, We're Frustrated, 10 be
smallpox.
| Further investigation led to the dis
covery of TWO other cases in a family
| living near the Herrings. DR.. Wells i'm
/ mediately called upon the township
trustees, which, under the law, consti-
tute the township board of health to
make preparations TO quarantine and
l,iso!ate the affected family. Meantime
precautions We're taken to segregate
the persons affected and To prohibit
| further intercourse with employees
about the mine. The family assured
DR. Wells that during the Illness of
Herring precautions had been taken to
| keep all persons who called at the
/ house from entering the room where
1 he WAS confined. but the physicians
stated that ample opportunity might
have been offered u subject the entire
Icamp to the contagion.
OF the 100 men employed at the mine,
fully one-half reside inside theS city linz
! its On the East Side. they so 10 ard
return from the mines every day, and
if they had been exposed 10 the dis
ease they nave had ample chance to
spread it on an extensive scale. How
ever. that no cases have been reported
terposed to savestiie people of the East
Side from an epidemic OF the disease.
Upon being Informed OF the presence
of smallpox at Youngstown, Mayor
/ MacVicar set out To locate and estab-
Ilish a pest house for the care of per-
sons who may be attacked by the dis
ease. Every ireeaution Will be taken
to prevent its invasion Of the city. The
strictest quarantine measures will be
4 adopted to keep The miners and others
from entering the corporate, limits. \
1 system of the strietest inquiry Will be
4 Instituted, and on the first appearance
lof smallpox the suspects Will be re-
4 moved to the pest house. where they
viii receive the best of medical care
land nursing. Every possible effort Will
i be made to c,atile the disease To its
present limits, and unless the expos
4 ures have been greater than suspected
the authorities are confident that its
4 further spread viii be stopped.