The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-30

His House Closely Quarantinod-A 1 Number of Persons Believed to Have
 Been Exposed to the Contagion-Mr.
 Markle Had Been III Nearly a Week
 When Ills Case Was Reported. Another case of smallpox was brought 1 to the attention of Health Officer l Wright late yesterday afternoon, and it
 is feared that from this last case other cases will develop, since a large num- | Der of persons have been exposed to contagion.
 The unfortunate victim is A. H. Mar
 kle, of "A Gilbert street, man about thirty years of age, who is employed as
 a teamster by a wholesale house. He
 has a family consisting of a wife and
 four children, none of whom has ever been vaccinated.
 The diagnosis of the case as small pox is positive, since the disease is well developed and had been running since last Wednesday, it is thought The
 case was brought to the attention of
 Health Officer Frank w. Wright about o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr.
 Wright at once investigated, and, fnd- ing beyond doubt the nature of the dis ease, he at once had MT. Markle remov- ed to the isolation cottage at Spring side farm and close quarantine placed upon the house at A Gilbert street. The health officer exercised great prompt ness In Investigating and dealing with the case, and within an hour and half after the case was reported to him Dr.
 Wright had the patient at Springside and the house quarantined. A police man was at once stationed in front of the house to see that the quarantine was not broken and an officer was on duty there all night last night. The sur veillance will be maintained until the danger shall have passed.
 MT Markle first complained of not feeling we'll last Wednesday and re- mained at his work as a teamster until last Friday, when he went home and had since been confined to the house, although he was able to sit up. A physician had been attending him, but did not realize that the case was one of smallpox until yesterday afternoon, when he reported to the health officer.
 It is thought that the case will be StNeTe OHe, Slflte MT. NdIkIe HdS n6NPI been vaccinated, and it is considered extremely probable that other members of his family will be affected, although none of them had shown any symptoms last evening. Tn the same house with MT. Markle's family reside his brother- in-law and family, who are also quar- antined since they have been in daily contact with him.
 All the persons residing in the house will be vaccinated this morning, and Dr. Wright requests that all persons who know that they have been exposed to the contagion from Mir. Markle have themselves vaccinated at once. The eruptions attendant with smallpox are well developed in MT. Markle's case and | first appeared last Sunday.
 The health authorities can form no | idea as to where he contracted the dis ease, since, so far as they have been able to ascertain, he had not been out | of the city lately and had not been ex- posed to the disease here. He was sit ting up when seen by Dr. Wright yes terday. It is said that no one has been in direct contact with him since last Friday except members of his own fam- fly and his brother laws family in the same house.
 Dr. Wright stated last night that Stu dent Recknagle, now at Springside cot tage with mild attack of varioloid, was not seriously i'll and would proba bly, not remain at Sprngside cottage long.
 There had been no case of smallpox here for a year and half until last when there were three differ ant outbreaks of the disease in two weeks. and now after six or seven come these two cases, which have no connection with each other whatever