Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-26
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
For a Stop to the Spread of
 Smallpox.
THROW PHYsIC TO THE DOGS

Did on East Clay Street Yeste%lay-
 The Homeopathic Pills Were Fired
 Out and the Inmates Bared Their
 Arms and Took the Vaccination in
 the Good old Way-Quarantine
 Raised in Few More Places To
 Day.
 All school children should be vac ] cinated this week. The schools Will reopen next Tuesday and much con fusion will be avoided by complying with the order now. People might 1 just as well take q common sense view of this matter and not get themselves and their children into trouble. The l authorities are in earnest about it and don't intend to allow anyone in the schools who has not been vaccinated. It is not good policy for a man to counsel disobedience to lawful all- thority in his children. Such teaching usually turns out to be a boomerang. It may appear all right to tell your l children not to pay any attention to their teachers, but later on when they grow a little more stiff-necked and l tell those who gave them that advice l that they know their own business and will come and go, when they please, people will realize what q l great wrong they did themselves and 1 their offspring. The authorities are not doing this for sport. It is costly job and never would have been resort l ed to unless the conditions warranted l the precaution. A man who refuses to have his children fall in line with the others may be honest enough, but l it looks as if he were not as prudent as a parent ought to be.
 The quarantine has been lifted from l the first floor of the Coogan residence on Washington street, also at the | building on Mill and Walnut streets. 1 The whole Trepanier family, including eight souls, have been removed to the l isolation hospital. Three of the fam lilies in the Curley block on River street have been set free and Willie Shaffer and Miss Kelly, boarders at the Brooks place on East Clay street, have been pronounced safe and let go.'
 A rather unusual occurrence took place at the quarantined building on East Clay street yesterday when the tenants threw homeopathic pills and other preparations intended to ward off smallpox out into the yard and | lnduC uIJ tuCu u Ut fdCC1udlGu l in the manner recommended by tEe board of health. The operation was performed by Health Officer Kilmar- tin. Dr s. B. Mum, the renowned anti-vaccination advocate, is the fam- l fly physician.
 The Wayside Inn folks have been quarantined for the past two weeks and so far none of them has show l ciUn nf hov fad I;e, ease. Unless a case breaks out there, something which is not expected, the boys will soon be at liberty to return to their places of business. The au- 1 thorities should hurry up and let ev- erybody out ill time to do some spring 1 planting.
 Health Officer Kilmartin said to-day that all the patients at the isolation 1 hospital are doing we'll and that the l quarantlned parties are doing well, too.
 It IS understood that the quarantine will be lifted from the Mccarthy block on south Main street next Monday. One Of the residents who was recover Ing from smallpox when the place was quarantIned is not yet able to be out. and on this account the rest will have to remain in until she is considered safe. All the people there use the same entrance
 l There is no truth Tn the rumor that smallpox has found it's way onto South street.
 | One or the medical inspectors has 1 reported a case on Silver street which IS attracting some attention. At the lrepanlef residence in that street sey- eraI or the children were found to be | recovering from suspicious looking sickness. Dr Frost examined the cases ana IS satlshed that they had smallpox ana are not practically over it. Mir lfepanler IS brother to the man of that name on Walnut street. who witl his family have been removed to inc isolation hospital. The family called Ill a physician on February 12. who told them that the children were suffer ing from somesblood disease. The case was not reported to the health author | itieS.
 It is estimated that over 90 per cent of the employees of the American Rine Co have been vaccinated.
 The number of quarantined parties released during the past few days re duced the number to be cared for hv the city down to about 225 or 23O per- sons.
 The medical inspection is now nrac- tically completed. Up to last night about 800 families had been visited. h most cases the inspectors were re- ceiyed with good grace. A few didn't like the idea of it, but no one so far as can be learned refused to allow the physician to go through the house. One or two suspicious cases that were re- ported, but didn't prove to be danger ous, caused some bad feeling. ..They went through my place with their rub Der coats on as if it were a regular pest house." said an enraged citizen to a Democrat reporter to-day 'sBut," he added, at the same time bringing his teth together and shutting his fists firmly, T wasn't there!''
 About the only thing new in the smallpox situation today was report from Watertown physician that he had discovered suspicious looking case in Oakville, in the town of Wa terbury, close to the city line. An in- yestigation is being made.
 Owing to the lifting of the quaran- tine on the Walnut and Mill street buildings. and relieving a portion of the guard on the River street house, the service of twelve special officers was dispensed with to-day. This