The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-03
NINTH VICTIM
OF SMALLPOX
Z. w. EVANS HAS
DREADED DISEASE.
Visited the Brace Home to Inquire
Into the Accommodation Provided
by the Bureau of Health--Another
Case Reported saturday-Columbia
Hose House Not Quarantined--Re
Corder Connell Approves the Free
Vaccination Resolution Confer
ence Today.

Small pox continues to spread in
west Scranton. Two more cases have
been reported since Friday making four
to be reported in the last seven days
and nine that have been reported since
the disease first broke out.
The latest victim Is Common Coun-
Gilman Evan w. Evans, of 537 Roberts
court, West Scranton, who visited the
Brace house on North Bromley avenue,
and subsequently reported to councils
that the board of health had been neg
lecting the occupants of the house.
He is the ninth victim, whose case
can be directly traced to the Brace
house, where the first two victims died.
Three deaths have already occurred as
n result of the disease.
The disease is getting a fast hold
in West Scranton, wheer the four
new cases were last week discovered.
Following is a complete list of the vic
Tins:
MRS. w. ]. BRACE, dead.
GEORGE LEWIS, dead.
BRACE CHILD, dead.
BRACE CHILD, recovering.
PARRY CHILD, recovering.
w. j. MORGAN, recovering.
MRS. JAMES BRACE, seriously i'll.
MRS. WILLIAM ALLSPAUGH,
slight attack.
EVAN w. EVANS, slight attack.
Mrs. James Brace visited the Parry
home in Mears' hall, when the children
there were reported to be suffering
from measles. She is now very i'll and
her recovery is problematic. William
]. Brace, whose wife died, and Mrs.
George Lewis, whose husband died in
the same house, have escaped the dis
ease. They We're vaccinated prior to
the outbreak
HAVE BEEN QUARANTINED.
They have been quarantined, how
ever, in the Brace house on North
Bromley avenue, and were released for
the first time yesterday, the quarantine
having been raised. Both changed their
clothing and We're fumigated and are
now among relatives and friends.
Rumors We're current yesterday to
the effect that a woman named Will
lams, residing on Lafayette street, had
fallen a victim to the disease, but the
case has not been reported. A child Of
George Rendle, $40 Pleasant street, and
sickness in the home of Charles Z.
Fish, rear of POS Breaker street. We're
reported to DR.. Paine on Saturday as
likely small poX cases, but he states
that there is no evidence Of the disease
in either case.
The attack of Mrs. William Ais
paugh, of North Bromley avenue, is
very light, DR.. Paine says, and there
is no need Of serious apprehension re-
garding the consequences, excepting
that the necessary precautions against
the spread of the disease must be rig
idly enforced.
The story printed in one Of the Sum
day papers to the effect that the Col
umbia Hose company's house on Divis-
ion street had been placed under quar-
antine, is denied by Captain George
Meyers, who is in charge.
He also denies that Permanent Man
Morgan has visited his brother, w. j.
Morgan, OF Swetland street, who is n
smallpox victim. The only time the
brothers talked together, Meyers says,
| was one day before the disease broke
| out, and that was on the street, when
w. j. Morgan was going home from
work.
gated by The Tribune man yesterday,
also denied the published statement re-
garding the alleged quarantine of
Chemical No. ? house. He said there
was absolutely no truth whatever in
the story, and branded it is fake
pure and simple.
FREE VACCINATION.
The resolution, passed by councils,
providing for free vaccination, has
been approved by Recorder Connnell,
and it is expected that the work will be
done in the public schools where all
who have not been vaccinated can be
accommodated. DR.. Allen has also ap-
proved of the resolution, which pro-
vides for free examinations after vac
cinations.
Dr.. John O'Malley, chairman of the
special committee of the board of con-
troll, appointed to attend to the Vaccn-
ations of school children, stated yes
terday that he is of the opinion that a
large majority of the children are now
vaccinated, and instead of opening the
different schools to the public for free
vaccination, favors the selection of
some central place where the work
can be done,
DR.. Allen, of the bureau of health,
will confer with DR.. O'Maley on this
matter today, and Il decision will be
reached regarding the time, place and
other details of free vaccination.
No. IS school, which was closed last
week TO permit of fumigation, will con-
tinue close Indefinitely, by order of DR..
Allen,
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