Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-03
ORDER is OBEYED
Only a Few School Children Fail
TO Adopt Smallpox
Preventive.
DOCTORS ARE ALL KEPT BUSY
Council on Detention HospitaI-Ncw
Case i'm Mo-
line.

This morning n demand was made
by the teachers in all the city
schools in accordance with the rule
made by the board of education Il
week ago. for the exhibition of certi-
ficates of vaccination by the pupils.
The manner in which the rule had
been observed proved to be highly
satisfactory. Owing to the short
ness of the time in which the vaccina-
ton had TO be done some were I'M
liable to get medical attention and
were for that reason alone unable to
show that the required operation
had been performed. Saturday the
demands made upon the doctors of
the city were very heavy, the run of
those desiring incubation beginning
early in the morning and lasting in
some cases till well into the night.
Many waited long for their turn and
then were compelled To give it up for
the day. With all this in addition to
their regular practice some of the
physicians put in the busiest day of
their lives.
y canvass of n number of schools
this morning by Supt. ii. b. Hayden
disclosed the fact that the average
number of pupils in each room of 30
to GO pupils still unvaccinated is
about three. In a few cases, of
course. parental objection TO the
operation was responsible, but with
the majority inability to secure the
services of doctor alone had pre-
vented. As there is no disposition on
the part of the school authorities ia
resort to harsh measures. those who
reported their inability to secure in
loculation were permitted To continue
in school on the promise to attend to
the matter before tomorrow. The
ACCESSIBILITY of sending physicians to
the several schools tomorrow morn
ing to complete the work is being
discussed.
Boarding Place FumiGated.
The boarding place of Charles Gill
foyle, the young man who was found
to be afflicted with smallpox Satur-
day afternoon, and the place where
he was employed were thoroughly
fumigated Saturday evening. and
those who had been associated with
him. so far as possible, were vaccin-
ated. y suspected case. which has
been under the eye OF the health au-
thorities for the past two days, to-
day turned out to be a malignant
form of measles
The city council viii probably be
asked this evening to take some ac-
ton in regard to providing deten-
ton hospital for the care of those
who have been exposed to smallpox.
1t is To- be hoped that he necessity
for suitable conveyance to be used
alone in handling the victims of this
disease will not be overlooked.
There were no new cases of small
pox brought to the notice of the
health department today and the old
ones were in about the same condi-
ton as Saturday.
New Case at Moline.
Moline has another case of small
poX that was brought to light today.
Joseph Hemenway, Is years of age,
son of c. F. Hemenway. is the vic
tim and the case is very pronounc-
ed one. Where he suffered exposure
is not known. As n result of the
discovery of this case there was a
stampede at the offices of the Moline
Plow company today when it was
learned that one of the employees
there had taken dinner at the Hem
enway residence yesterday. The up
shot of IL was that he company or
dered the vaccination of the Office
force forthwith and assumed the eN-
pense of the operation. Young Hem
enway was employed at the offices of
the Deere & Mansur company.