The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-01-29
|IODG[RS HAVE
The PEST.
Smallpox Outbreak in the
Glenmore Hotel on
Montgomery
Street.
One NAN WALKS ABOUT
Carries the News Himself to
the Health Board
Headquarters.
|vACcINAToRs FIND ANOTHER
General Decline of the Dis
ease Reported Cases
in Hoboken.
vACClNAT0Rs FIND ANOTHER

There was a new outbreak Of smallpox
IN the lower section of the city this morn
ing, and Ii looks as though shere may be
considerable OF it before many days. as
Sne patient, who was taken to the pest
house at Snake TIill, was an inmate OF
one OF the lodging houses on lower Mont-
gomery street, where he has been stop
ping for two weeks and associating with
the other dodgers.
This morning, at $50 o'clock, Frank
K9oefert, thirty-six years of age, walked
into the Board of Health Office on Grove
street and said:-"Gentlemen, am a sick
man ard / think have the smallpox.
the tirae, and as the man spoke they
Eurned and looked at ninl. That was
Enough They were convinced that it
was. a case Of smallpox, and they de-
gained the man while word was sent for
she smallpox coach, and he was hur-l
ried away to the pest house. While watt
ing for the coach to arrive the doctors
questioned the man and found out that
he was a lodger at the Glenmore Hotel,
No 13 Montgomery street.
Doctors Everett and Stewart imnedi-
ately left the Health office and proceeded
to the hotel, in company with Inspector
Benjamin, who thoroughly fumigated the
building, and the doctors vaccinated
about twenty dodgers. While the vac
Einating was going on, they came across
<ss1os iser ease of the disease IN the person
of Frank Schroeder, thirty-one years Of
age, and he was hustled off to Snake Hill.
The doors of the hotel are barred now,
and will be kept so for at least three
days The inmates were allowed to go
out after they had been vaccinated and
their clothing thoroughly fumigated.
Patrolmen John Bolen and Charles
Connors of the First Precinct are on
guard in front of the building, and no
one will be allowed to enter until the
Health officials say so. Inspector Ben
janin will make a tour of all the lodg-
ing houses in the city today in company
with the physicians of the Health office,
and all dodgers will be vaccinated.
The Health officials have been very
busy in stopping the spread of the dis
ease. and they have been working night
and day.
Despite the fact that numbers of cases
of smallpox are reported at irregular in
tervals, the county health authorities be-
disease is well under. control They point
to the comparatively small number of
patients only seventy, who are still un-
der treatment Besides few of the cases
now received are of the virulent type,
showing that the almost general vaccina-
ton of the people of the county has
checked the spread Of the disease.
Three patients were discharged as cured
Yesterday, and it is expected that by the
end of the week at least thirty more will
be well enough to leave the pest house
and contagious disease hospital Two
cases were received on Saturday, and four
more yesterday.
The greatest number of patients under
treatment at one time, since the present
outbreak began was 122 so. unless an un-
| usually large number are received this
week. the indications are that consider
ably less. than half that number Will be at
Snake Hill week from today
Despite these favorable signs the health
authorities are not relaxing their efforts
to wipe out the disease entirely. Health
rules are strictly enforced, and all places
where. smallpox appears are quarantined
until thoroughly funigated.
The outbreak of smallpox in the County
| Jail is at an end, and yesterday the quar-
antine established at that institution over
| a month ago was partially removed. To
prevent the disease being brought in again
no visitors will be allowed, nor will any
packages intended for prisoners be re-
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