The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-24

No sooner does DIR. Chaplin think that
he has the smallpox under control and
that the danger Is practically over than
new batch of cases crops out.
He Is confronted. hourly. by the tramp
problem. the walking menace 10 public
health and while trusting that there may
be no more cases OF the disease brought
to his attention, knows that there is con-
slant liability of a warning by telephone
10 call at some designated place and ex-
anime a suspect.
Two such summonses were received yes
terday and in each instance the suspicion
was verified and two more were added TO
the group of patients at Fields Point,
whose detention i'm the little cottage on
the bleak hill overlooking the bay and
harbor is the only safeguard against a
general epidemic.
About s:i5 o'clock yesterday morning
DR.. William H. Mclaughlin of 462 Benefit
street was called upon by seedy-loo<ing
individual. who said that he was John
ONeil. of 96 First street, East Providence,
and that he needed reatment.
NEEDED HEROIC TREATMENT.
AS soon as DIR. Mclaughlin looked at
the man he agreed that treatment, and
or a most heroic nature, was essential,
for he called up Captain Magill of the
Third police station and Informed him
that he had a smallpox suspect
Captain Magill i'm turn notified DR..
Chaplin, who, with Or. King, went to DR..
McLaughlin's office.
They confirmed the doctors diagnosis
and ONeil was hurried of TO the pes,
house
o'Neil, who is as years old. is we'll
known among steamboating men as
fireman. He had, he said. been frequent
ing the cheap lodging houses on South
Main street, the What Cheer in parti-
cular where Thomas j. Evans introduced
smallpox several weeks ago.
He was drunk Saturday and passed the
day and night I'm that end of the city
Just where he does not know, and Cor
this reason trouble is expected 10 de-
velop in that district. The police were
out for hours yesterday looking in vain
for ONeil's stopping place.
Friday he was In East Providence and
made cali on his sister. on First street.
lie complained then OF being IN and was
advised 10 see physician. but did not
do so
There are hopes entertained that tho
disease had not sufficiently progressed
at that time TO have endangered the
health OF that community.
It was with difficmulty that O'Neil was
got TO the hospital The latter Is showed
I'm and the last 600 feet OF the distance
was traversed on foot. Dr. Chaplin es-
corting the patient through the deep
drifts
ANOTHER CASE
~ $50 D. m. the second call came.
Charles Rogers. IS years old. OF Boston.
dropped I'm at the city lodging house. on
Eddy street. 60 be put UP for the night.
The rules OF that Institution include the
requirement that every lodger shall strip
take bnth and put on clean night
shirt While he sleeps y baking machine |
does stunts with his clothing and the |
creeping things that lurk therein
when Rogers was ready for his scrub |
bnC an attendant noticed that the mans !
BODY was covered with an eruption.
Drs Chaplin and Leonard were sent for /
found that Rogers had a well-denned at
ack of smallpox and once more the pest I
iouse ambulance was called INTO service. !
llogers. who belongs in Norwich. Conn. /
ias been tramping al winter and nine /
lays ago was lodger IN house on Han !
,ver street. BOSTON Friday night he !
cached Pawtucket and put M az the po- |
Ice station. SATURDAY nc reached the I
smallpox infested place on South Main /
What Cheer.
Dr Leonard with the aid OF n police 7
'scort. visited all the loseing houses and 1
'accinated every man found I'm them. This \
lot welcome visit 90 the tramps was not /
completed until midnight.
NINE CASES SO FAR.
t-p ~ this noon rine cases ~ srnsllnox
'~d bcrn discovered since Christmas. VI