Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-25

APPOINTED
THE MATTER OF SMALLPOX DIS
CUssED BY THE CITY CoUN-
GIL LAST EVENING.
PHYSICIAN EMPLOYED
TO VACClNATE A~LL.COMERS.
West Galena Street Property Owners
Object to Establishment OF
Sewer.

The city council last night, in order to
prevent the spread of smallpox, decided
to employ a physician to aid the health
officer and enforce compulsory vacclna-
ton. 1t was decided to pay him $3.50
per month, and his duty will be to &C
cinate people free of charge. Ills head
quarters will be in the health commits
sioner's room in the city hall during the
day. =
The action was the result of the report
of the board of health, which was as
follows:
AT a special meeting of the board
of health held to discuss the most eff
fective means of enforcing vaccination
it was decided to recommend to your
honorable body that special police in
number adequate to execute with dis
patch compulsory vaccination among
those not v~accinated within the pre-
scribed time be appointed. This we be-
lieve to be necessary on account OF the
regular patrolmen not having the time
to spare for this cause.
ut was also decided to recommend to
your honorable body that a physician
be employed expressly to vaccinate any
who may desire to avail themselves OF
free vaccination and to visit patients
who shall be reported as suffering with
smallpox or having suspicious symp-
TOMS, and would prescribe that h. make
the health office in the city hall his
headquarters, and devote himself exclu-
sively to those functions"
The matter was discussed at length by
the councilmen, and when City Attorney
Lamb was asked for an opinion on the
subject as to the right of the city to
compel vaccination, he said he knew that
children had been compelled to be vac
cinated. The matter of forcing people
in general to be vaccinated had not been
passed upon, but under the laws of the
state the ouncil had the authority to
order vaccination. The United States
health authorities vaccinated people
against their will in order to preserve
the general health.
The general sentiment of the council
was in favor of employing policemen to
assist the health officer in carrying out
the order of vaccination, and Alderman
Bryant moved that the health officer, in
connection with the chief of police, be
authorized to employ as many extra
policemen as necessary to enforce the
order and to arrange to vaccinate people
free Of charge, the health officer to en-
age an assistant physician.
This was amended by Alderman Page
so as to provide that the assistant be
paid at the rate of $3.50 per month, and,
as amended, the motion carried.
Unde the order everybody in the city
who has not been vaccinated within the
last year will IA to 70 to the order
and either be vaccinated by their own
physician or the city physician.
o. A r,,,oha.o f WAIST Co1ano etroo% ~
crty holders objected to the establish
ment of the sanitary sewer on that street
on the ground that they We're heavily
taxed for grading and other improve
ments. 1t was decided to postpone the
construction of the sewer for one year.
The estimate of Building Inspector
Kennedy for the construction of the
Quartz street fire station was adopted as
follows: Completion of foundation, $4,000;
first floor, $266O; second floor, $2674; total,
1884.
A recommendation from the light and
building committee that the Northern
Pacific company be compelled to erect
n maintain an arc light at it's crossing
on Gaylord street was adopted.
The judiciary committee recommended
that the claim of Mrs. Kate Hesse for
damages alleged to have been sustained
by the construction of a sidewalk be
denied. Further time was asked in re-
gard to the claims of Thomas J. Manly
and Joseph Hicks. The report was
adopted.
Alderman Elderkin said that the Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific Railroad
had filled in Nevada street, and he was
in favor of having an abstract of the
property made, SO as to ascertain who
owned the street. 1t was impossible, he
continued, at present to cross the street.
There were few other streets in the
vicinity that We're passable. The matter
was referred to the street and alley COM
mittee.