The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-02
No OCCASION FOR SCARE
DIR. BRACIxEN, OF STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH, SAYS SMALLPOX is
UNDER CONTROL
- - ~ y
LUMBER CAMPS ONLY MENACE
Lack. of Care Might Cause an Out
break of the Disease There, but
Cities Ase~aA1f-GI0sefy
Watched.


''While there is little cause for alarm. -
says DR.. n NJ. Bfacke11. secretary of the
state board of health, ''yet it is remark
able the number of cases of smallpox
that now exist In the state and have
been reported to the ST. Paul office in the
past two weeks. In Minnesota, 80 vii
lagos and cities and 50 townships in as
many counties are credited With the cpl
ldemic while the cases in qua 1antine. out
side of st. Paul. Minneapolis. st. Louis
county and AEinona, number 1T2. none of
them, however, of a character to excite
alarm in the nature of a spread.
AS to Winona, the least said the better.
The people and merchants OF that city
have been put to much worry and loss
by the epidemic and the efforts on the
part of many to eXaggerate. The dis
ease there was confined to one part of
the city, known as the Polish quarter.
and has run. it's course like fire through
a shaving pile. The authorities have the
disease in hand and~ares observing every
precaution, and there is no more likeli-
hood of infection from there than from
any other city in the northwest"
Minnesota. DR.. Bracken says, need not
be held up as alone in respect to having
smallpox within its confines Hardly a
state in the union but what has seen the
once dreaded scourge. The conditions in
some states are even worse than they are
in Minnesota. There is less danger, DR..
Bracken thinks, of infection from the
cities, than from the lumber and mining
camps. There physicians are only called
in as a last resort allowing many mild
cases to run their course, while in the
cities the physicians and boards of health
are ever on the alert and ready to quar-
antine the infected on the first sign of
the disease. ,.-- 1888
The state department is as closely in
touch with the disease as the local boards
of health, weekly and daily reports being
received, while correspondence and clip
ping bureaus keeps the Office posted on
any information that may be feared
from neighboring states. In the past two
weeks the following counties have report
ed the disease, the figure accompanying
being the number of infected villages ana
townships so far located:
Beltrami, !; Benton, 1; Carlton, 1; Cass.
/: Chippewa, /; Cottonwood, 1: Crow
Wing, L; Dakota. 2; Dodge, 1; Hennepin.
1: Hubbard, l; Kandiyohi. /; Lake, /:
LIE Suer Z; Lyon, 4; Marshall, /: Meek
err L; Mobiles. 2; Olmstead 2; Pine, 2;
St. Louis, 5; Todd, j; Watonwan, /:
Wright, 4; Yellow Medicine. L; Stevens.
1: Blue Earth, 1; Fillmore. i; Swift. 1;
sStearns, /; Wilkins l; Morrison, 2; Itasca,
a: Brown, 2: -SVinena.7l. - -
Those enumerated are simply classed
as outbreaks reported in the past two
weeks and do not INCLUDE the epidemic
that has been raging III Cottonwood.
Redwood ard other. counties prior to that
period. Not a county in the state, for
that matter, has escaped.
Winofa possibly has the largest num-
ber-cf cases. but they are all nearly con-
valescent and with the measures now in
force the number Of the Infected is daily
leSsening.
LOCAL HEALTH REPORT.
During the month of December, 50 cases
of diphtheriaa- % ct scarlet fever and 2
of smallpox were reported to the board
of health as@existing in ST. Patti. Four
deaths occurred from 6iphtheria and one
from scarlet fever The number. OF cases
of dip.ltherla showed a decrease Of Is
over. the proceeding month.