The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-19
SMALLPOX!
School No. 6 Closed and All
the Children and Teach
ers Vaccinated.
ONE PUPIL IN PESTHOUSE
County Physician King Fears
an Epidemic OF the Dread
Disease.

Two more cases of small pox were re-
ported at the Board of Health Office in
the City Hall today. They are:-Albert
Mansfield, 26 years old, of No. SIS
Pavonia avenue and Cuno Werner, IA
years old of No. $50 Newark avenue.
School No. g. which young Werner at
tended was closed this morning on ac-
count of the appearance of small pox
and the sixteen hundred pupils with the
corps of teachers have been undergoing
vaccination Werner was taken out of
school yesterday with decided symptoms
of the small pox. These developed and he
was sent 10 the pest house today.
May Oakden, a girl pupil attended
school until within few days ago while
Al Mansfield was suffering with symptoms
of the dreaded malady at her home, No.
SIS Pavonia avenue Both children are
members of the primary department. Two
hundred of the pupils were vaccinated
yesterday. The two class rooms in which
tn boy and girl sat were closed and the
rooms fumigated.
Health Inspector Benjamin decided to
take no chances and after a consultation
with School Superintendent Snyder and
Principal Wakeman the school was order
/
corps of physicians. including Drs.
| Stout, Stewart and Evert, have been busy
| all day vaccinating the pupils. They had
not finished their labors at noon. The
young ones looked upon the matter as a
sort of holiday joke as they watched their
classmates bare their arms for the doc
tors nedles or lancets until it came their
turn. The girls showed more nerve than
! the boys. There smore or less unneces-
sary excitement among the parents of the
pupils. The school will remain closed un-
| til after the Christmas holidays at least.
/ Principal Wakeman says this is the Sec
ond smallpox scare in the history of the
/ school. The other occurred about fifteen
| years ago when there were two cases on
Hoboken avenue. near the school. The
school is located at Central and St.
Paufs avenue.
| How either Mansfield or Werner con-
tracted the disease is not known. Both
were taken sick on Thursday of last
week and both cases were at first dag
nosed as severe bilious attacks by local
physicians.
From the time they were first attacked
by the awful disease until their removal
i to Snake Hill yesterday morning, both
unfortunate victims were attended by
their immediate friends and relatives and
grave fears of contagion are entertained
in consequence.
Mansfield and the Werner boy were ae-
quaintances, and it is thought that pos
sibly one contracted the disease from the
other. This morning DR.. King stated
that the formers attack was likely to be
very mild one, but that the boy, who
had not been vaccinated, was very Ill.
The condition of David Ferris, of No
rs Larch street, the Erie Railroad brake
man, who walked into the Office of DR..
Charles F. Snyder, at Summit and Pa
vonia avenues, on Friday morning last
to learn for the first time that he was
a victim of small pox, was reported this
morning much improved. The two pa
tients received from Hoboken some time
ago are also convalescing, the man be-
ing almost well enough to leave the hos
pital.
What to do with the patient suffering
from contagious diseases is the question
now agitating County Physician Charles
B. Converse, Medical Superintendent
George w. King, of the Snake Hill In
sane asyluf, and the members of the
Board of Freeholders.
That ominous indications exist Of a pos
sibility of the dread disease becoming
epidemic was admitted by DR.. King to g
News" reporter this morning. The ac-
commodations at the Snake Hill pes
4 house are already tested to their utmost
in caring for the fifteen contagious dis
ease patients now there, and If more come
they will have to be sheltred in tent
which the authorities are preparing tc
erect should occasion require.
There is no place at Snake Hill to ac-
commodate any more small pox patients
who may btb rought there as the other
contagious disease victims now kept a
the pest house cannot be removed to any
of the other institutions or a plague
among the nuearly 1,6OO paupers. criminal:
and lunatics would result.
1t is over twelve years since a similal
condition existed in this county. Since
then there have been sporadic cases O.
smallpox which have been treated with
almost remarkable success, and through
the promptness and vigilance of the coun