Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
NO NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX TO-DAY.
Several Physicians Have offered Their Services to The Board o Charities es-Now Every One Can be Vaccinaed Whether They Have money not-Washngon, Bank and Porter Street Schools Ordered CIosed-Ciy Clerk Sending Notices to Factories and
 Stores with Request That Help
 Be Vaccinated.
Be Vaccinated.

So far nothing startling has devel- oped in the smallpox situation to-day, though at an early hour this morning the presence of the health officer i'll Howard place, off North Main street, caused considerable suspicion, and many wanted to know what was up. It turned out to be nothing worse than a case of measles in the Mcclellan family in the big block in the rear, the same building in which q small fire occurred the day Joseph Diamond, the first smallpox patient, was removed to the isolation hospital. The health offi- | cer assured q Democrat reporter, who hailed him as he drove out of the al, leyway, that there was nothing serious the matter there. "Thank God,' said prominent citizen, who was standing nearby and had overhead the remark.
 The Gauthier girl, referred to herein yesterday, was removed to the Isolation hospital last night, accompanied by her mother. The building belongs to Mir Gauthier. It is quarantined. The addition to the isolation hospital will | pO OlEJlClOo 1AlS Wllk put the authorities in position to handle all to better advantage than ever. Be tween patients and nurses there are about thirty persons at the building it the present time.
 The Washington. Bank and Por- ter streets schools are closed and many think that it would be wise to close the rest of them until | Iofr AM health board knows what's necessary and will take this precaution if 1t ! should be deemed wise All children | not vaccinated have been ordered to remain away from St Mary's parochial school until they have submitted to the operation. The order that all should be vaccinated was issued a week ago l by Father Slocum. with the under standing that all who were unable to 1 pay should be vaccinated and have the bill sent to him. Just before this mo- 1 tice was received pr Mcdonald had
 notified the teachers to send all poor children to him and he would vaccinate them free of charge. The offer was very much appreciated, but Father
 Slocum thought that the parish
 ought to pay for the poor. All who \ " ClG WHILE LO nave Luc ODCldllCn performed were inoculated by Dr Nc 1 Donald, those who were able to pay l as well as those who were not.
 A very important topic on the
 streets to-day is the action taken by
 the board of health last night, regard
 ing a medical inspection in several dis
 tricts of the city It seems to meet
 with general approval and all think | Thaf fhn iS nm 1ynY fhan
 better for everybody. In 1893 this
 was tried in Muncie. Ind, and forty
 three cases discovered that the author
 ities knew nothing about. A similar
 precaution was resorted to in Bir- | mingham. Ala. in 1898. with the result
 that forty-fiye persons were found sick 1 with the disease. The authorities
 here are hindered considerably in their | efforts to confine the disease to any
 particular place or places on account
 of the difficulty in getting people to stand apart from those who have been 1 exposed to it. A physician oldareport-
 CT to-day that he thinks this the worst
 town in the country for cabin hunt I ing. Some women. he said, spend
 very little time in their own houses,
 and in consequence the places they
 live ill are dirty and themselves and
 their children fall easy victims to the
 nalady. To add to this many leave l houses where the disease breaks out and secrete themselves with friends
 In other parts of the town and in this l way carry the disease to places where 1 it might never occur if they remained
 away. So far as can be learned all
 runaways have been rounded up and
 put back where they belong. A rev
 people are said to have been visiting
 one of the families in the Coogan building on Washington street just I before the guard was placed there.
 but they got out and went to their
 own homes. It is not known wheth-
 CT any action will be taken on those
 cases. These people should consider 1 it their duty to report to the health
 officer and have their houses fumi- ! gated. They owe this to themselves,
 to say nothing of their neighbors and
 the public at large.
 Superintendent Doran, Clerk Me Mahon of the board of charities and l Sheriff Mcdonald had lots to do this morning making out certificates for free vaccination. The rush was SD great the office was not equal to if. and the sheriff was collared in the lob by and pressed into service, and turned out to be very valuable assistant They issued over a hundred certifi- cates. Seventy of these were present ed to Dr Maloney and the children holding them vaccinated. The others went to Dr McLarney, Dr Donahue, Dr Ballard. pr Monaghan, pr Dwyer and Dr McLinden, who have volun- teered to help out. It is thought that all the physicians are willing to lend hand. so that after a short time all
 will have been inoculated, and then a good share of the excitement and con fusion will be over.
 City Clerk Ryan is sending out no
 tices to the factories and large stores regarding the action taken last night
 by the board of health, requesting them to have their help vaccinated and
 in this way assist in controlling the ravages of the disease. Everybody is
 hustling, so that the man who said i that the smallpox scare would result I r., 1xi,,e er hfrr ovnapco for t1a faxna u-