Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-13
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WERE TAKEN
That Was the Conclusion Reached At Conference Last Evening of Health Board and Other-Arrangements Made to Add to Pest House if Necessary-The Work of Vaccination Goes on But Many Children Are Out of
 School Who We're Not Vaccinaed-
 Another Suspect To Be Sent
to Pest House.

out of a hand that has none. To some people it may appear strange that there should be d family in Water- bury that cannot raise few dollars to have their children yaccinated, but unfortunately it is so, and so long as it is there appears to be no way or getting around it unless the schools are to be disorganized and the risk taken of allowing many to grow up dirty, ignorant loafers, condition to be feared more than an epidemic of smallpox. It is said that if we had free vaccination the city would be inn posed upon. Probably this is true to some extent, but the same thing might be said with reference to giving out aims by the board of charities and yet nos one would think of cutting away supplies altogether.
 In purSance to an order issued by Superintendent Tinker on instructions from Mayor Kilduff, Health Officer Kilmartin and the board of health, all pupils, who had not been vaccinated, and went to school this morning. were sent home by the teachers. As re- suit about 65 per cent of the school children are enjoying a vacation to-day. The number of pupils, who refused to be vaccinated, and were sent home to- day, may be judged from the following figures received from the principals of various schools to-day by a Democrat reporter: Bank street school, one half of the pupils are out; Barnard school, 250 out of 400 are home; Bishop street school, 40 per cent of it's pupils have been vaccinated; West Side Hill school, <NE fI,a Lax not been vaccinated; Washington street school, out of 555 pupils only 15S pre- sented certificates this morning stating that they had been vaccinated. In one room there were only three pupils pres ent, this afternoon; Webster school, 205 out of 550 pupils are not attending school to-day; Driggs school only Il very small number have not been vac cinated; Crosby Grammar school 400 out of 700 pupils are home today In the other schools the same ratio pre- vails. At the Welton street school one room contained six pupils this morning, another room 19 out of 50; at the High school from 60 to 100 pupils had not been vaccinated by this morning. One of the teachers, Professor Shute. re- fused to be vaccinated, and he had to return home this morning. A number of the pupils, who were sent home this morning, paid q visit to the doctors offices and returned to their respective schools this afternoon.
 To-day Health Officer Kilmartin and Dr Frost vaccinated twenty-seven per- sons at the Wayside Inn. About u dozen of the lodgers have nat been found and it is thought tha; they have shook the dust of the town elf their feet.
 It is understood thu the condition of John Daly, one of the inmates of the shelter, has become sufficiently sus- picious to remove him to the isolation hospital, and it is likely -that lie will be taken there tonight. The patients at the hospital are getting along nicely.
 At the factories where the manage ment is paying for having hands vac- cinated, those who refuse to submit to the operation are being sent home with out any assurance that their jobs will be held for them.
 At the plant of the New England Watch company several employees of different rooms have been sent home for three weeks owing to their refusal to be vaccinated.
 Superintendent Tinker late this after- noon said that in the High school abouE 70 percent of the scholars were vac cinated and returned with their certifi- cates this morning. Ten or F per cent more were vaccinated this after noon and will be in tomorrow morn- ing. In the lower grades only 40 per cent of the children are In school, while in the upper grades about 95 per cent have shown their certificates of vac- cination. The average attendance this morning throughout the city was from 65 to 70 per cent. This afternoon many more returned and by tomorrow 1t is expected that over 90 per cent of the children will have returned to school with certificates of vaccination.