The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-02-02
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NO SMALLPOX IN cLARKs.
BURG
And no New Cases intl,is County.
The General Situation.

'bility Of its creeping into our mlosp
and have been and are active In TAX
ing every possible precaution. The
city council held special meeting
SATURDAY night and together with
members OF the county and State
health boards thoroughly reviewed
the situation and took commendable
steps Of precaution. councilmen
Reed. Siers and Thompson were APP
poInteda special committee to wait
upon any and all physicians who are
treating or may treat smallpox cases,
to notify them to take every personal
aprecaution. The committee was en-
powered to secure q house of deten-
ton to be used as hospital in emer-
eency, and were authorized to act with
the city health oficer In any and all
other necessary and advisable meas
ures. This committee and the health
officer Immediately took active steps.
Sunday afternoon the health officer
issued the following proclamation
which was circulated extensively
throughout the city:
PRocLAstAT1oN.
1t shall be the duty otall persons
who have not been vaccinated recent
ly against smallpox to do SO at once.
1t shall be the duty Of the county
board Of health to quarantine any or
all physicians attending smallpox
cases outside Of the corporate limits
of the city of Clarksburg.
N. PECK,
City Health Officer.
They secured vest house and noti-
fed the comfy health officer that the
city had quarantined against DR..
.sBob. Ramsay who is attending the
patients at the Carper home at Mt.
Glare, and special officer Sunday
served ofiicial notice of the action by
the city and county health officers and
DIR. Ramsay is now being detained in
the Carper home and not allowed to
pass the guard there.
Quarantine is being enforced at both
the Carper and Mrs. BasilWolf homes,
but will be raised In four days at the
latter home If the disease does not ap-.
pear there before that time. This
home has been quarantined 16 days
already and 20 days is considered suf-
ficient. There are nine persons quar-
antined in the Wolf home, the reason
for their isolation being the fact that
they were exposed by visits to Cur
Smiths room.
The five patients at the Carper home
at Mt. Glare are getting along nicely
and there appears no danger Of fatali-
ties.
The daughter of DR.. T. B. BARTLETT,
who first treated Cur Smith at the
Carper home, has been Quarantined at
Lost Creek.
The situation in Harrison county is
well in hand and our safety from the
Mt. Clare cases is assured. The only
danger now is from other counties,
some of which neglected precautions
at first, but are now active in precau-
tionary measures made compulsory in
some instances by the state board of
health. This latter condition can not
be said OF our county, as the county
court and county health officer grasp
ed the urgency of the situation at
once and acted quickly for the good of
the county, believing an ounce of pre-
caution better than pound OF cure.
By their judicious course atsmall ex-
pense scourge is prevented which
might have cost the county thousands
of dollars, besides the greater consid-
Grafton of the peril of humahitgs
The situation in the interior conn-.
ties is somewhat alarming. At Wes-
ton Andy Shearer, mail carrier be
tween Chenille and Weston, has it
There are two cases at Emission
James Hamrick and his sister. Wes-
ton has Guaranteed against Buckhan-
non and its public schools are closed.
Four cases are reported at Buckhan-
non and that city has at lastbegun to
quarantine. There are six cases at
Alum Bridge in Lewis county.
There is a new case at the Rinhardt
home, on Leading Greek, making nine
cases in this family. The only two re-
manning well in this family Is the
father and infant baby.
At Glenyille to-day all the churches
and Sunday schools are closed A
strict quarantine has been made,
which embodies loating on the streets
and the visiting Of families. There is
q new case ut the Con hotel making
three cases in all.
On Steer Creek, in Gilmef county,
the disease has broken out. At All-
mans, In Richie county, there ara
two cases. At Cox's Mills . Miss
Bush and a child Of the widow Fisher
are broken out with the disease At
Auburn all the mail from this section.
Of the state was turned back Tuesday
night. No man stops at Alum Bridge,
The two students who ran away
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