Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-26
A GUARD AGAINST IAkA.
Board Of Health Adopts Meas
ures to Prevent Smallpox in
the City.
Those Who Visited Reservation
to Be Placed Under
Quarantine.
Board Explains the Conditions
and Reasons for Action...No
Alarm Felt.


has taken steps to prevent a possible
outbreak of smallpox in the city and to
guard against the disease being carried
from the Indian reservation in Tama
county. AS one step in this direction
those members of the party of school
teachers who visited the reservation
last Saturday have been instructed to
cease their school duties for week and
day, or until Nov. S, and to seclude
themselves in their rooms at their
homes until the expiration of that time.
This action was decided upon at a
meeting of the board of health Friday
evening and after consultation had been
held with members of the school board,
Superintendent Willard and a deiega-
ton of business men. The business men
attended the meeting for the purpose OF
advising with the health board in order
to secure sensible mad conservative ac-
ton and to guard against a scare being
caused There is no smallpox In Mar
shalltown today and none no nearer to1
the city than the Indian reservation,
eighteen miles distant in Tama county.
But to guard the public and the city's
interests it was deemed best to adopt
measures of prevention and possible ex-
posture of pupils from those teachers
who may have possibly been exposed on
the occasion of that trip. No alarm
whatever is felt that there will be an
outbreak Of the disease. but the plans
adopted are simply precautionary and
taken in the belief that an ounce of pre-
vention is better than several pounds OF
cure.
BOARD MAKES STATEMENT.
The board Of health, thru its chair
man, Mayor L. B. Jones, has prepared
the following statement to the public In
regard to the conditions and the reasons
for the action taken:
ITO the Public: In compliance with
the rules of the state board of health
and as precautionary measure to pre-
vent the slightest possibility OF an out
break of smallpox in Marshalltown thru
any possible exposures of those who re-
Gently visited the Indian reservation in.
Tama county, the board OF healthSof the
city of Marshalltown has felt in duty
bound to adopt some measures that may
seem unnecessary to others. Our action,
however, is the result of due elaboration
commercial interests and the public
health and prevent repetition OF our
experiences of two years ago. While
your board is frank to confess that 1t
does not believe there is any danger OF
those teachers and others who recently
visited the reservation becoming Ill with
the disease, yet there is possible
chance that one or more of them may
have been exposed; therefore we have
concluded that as q matter of precaution
| 1t is best to have those teachers cease
| their school duties until Nov. 5, when
seventeen days will have elapsed and
all danger will have been passed.
"At the meeting OF the board lasteven-
| ing to consider the situation. and after a
conference with alarge number of bust
ness men, citizens and school officials,
your board adopted the following resolu-
tons:
Resolved, BY the board Of health.
that all teachers and all other parties
who visited the Indian village where
smallpox prevails be quarantined until
Nov. s. as a precautionary measure.
".Resolved, That all other parties
visiting the reservation later be quaran-
tined seventeen days from the time of
possible exposure.
your health board, having only the
interests of the community and the gen
eral public in view, asks the hearty CO.
operation of all those affected by this
order. Those so affected will be placed
on their honor In the Observance OF these
orders unless disposition Is shown TO
disobey, in which case 1t will be neces-
sary to placard the premises and adopt
other measures that will secure the
obedience to our present requests. Yours
in the interests of the public health and
continued commercial activity,
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
"I,. b. JONES. Mayor"
The second paragraph in the resolu-
ton was made as an amendment on the
claim by member of the board that he
had been reliably informed that the
members Of the Unity Club, who visited
Tama county Monday, stopped at the
reservation, and with the idea Of estab-
Fishing the same regulations over the
club ladies' but Mayor Jones has inves-
tigated the matter fully and Is con-
WINGED that the club ladies simply drove
along the public highway that runs
thru the reservation, did not leave their
wagonette, came in contact with no In
dams and were not in sight even of the
wickiups of the tribe, having been stop
ped at the gate leading to the main set
Element. Therefore the myaor. who is
chairman of the health board, concluded
lit would not be necessary to quarantine
the Unity Club members.
OFFER NO PROTEST.
The teachers who are affected by the
order of the board take the matter phil
osophically and have been given assur-
ance that they will receive full pay for
the week and one day that they will lose
from duty. They were ordered into
quarantine at IL o'clock noon today, and
win remain in their rooms until Tues
day. Nov. s. No danger can come from
the time that they have been teaching,
even IL 1t should develop that one or
more of them may have been exposed.
The order will not be allowed to inter-
| fere with the school work more than ABB
soiutely necessary. Seven of the eleven
high school teachers We're among the
visitors, and with the exception of the
A and B sections of the eighth grade the
high school Will be closed next week.
An effort will be made to supply teach
ers in the places of the grade teachers
who viii be OFF duty. and superintend-
ent Willard says all grade pupils must
report at their rooms next Monday
morning.
THE HOMES INCLUDED.
In order to make the QuaranttneS