The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-01-08
TWO MORE
DEATHS
Young Girl and Little Boy
Die at Snake Hill
Pest House.
EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
Freeholders Carefully Guard
Against the Con.
tagion.

| Matters pertaining 10 the care of small
| pox victims isolated at the Contagious
Disease Hospital, are being considered w
the members OF the Board of Freehol-
ders, who are IN session at. snake Hill
| today.
| II has been decided IN order to prevent
! the possibility OF the clothing of dis
! charged patients from becoming infected
| with the germs of the disease, TO remove
them from Snake Hill in a coach other
! than the one in use for conveying afflict-
ed persons there.
The need of additional nurses has been
supplied in several cases by GONZALES
cents, who, having no home to go 10
and no money, have agreed to care for
the new sufferers for a small monetary
consideration allowed by the Fleehoiders.
This enables them to leave Snake Hill
with a little money, with which to begin
the worlds battle over again, stored in
the pockets of the new clothes provided
for them by the county governing body
Patients about 10 be discharged are
obliged to take ten baths before leaving
| the hospital. They change their clothes
I IN a room set aside for that purpose and
which is disinfected daily. Then they are
j let out of the institution through a rear
door to prevent any possible chance of
their new clothing becoming infected with
| the germs of the disease.
In the case of a discharged adult. if the
weather is fine, he or she is advised thai
a walk home over the county road ruiz
| ming through the meadows will be bene-
| ficiai and prevent the possibility of con-
tagion.
There were two deaths at the tempo
rary hospital yesterday One was Bertha
Throttle, the young girl who was taken
from Garden street and Hudson avenue,
Union HtIH, few days ago. Sne snHereo
from hemorrhage or black smallpox. ana
no hopes OF ner recovery were. ehter,aiii-
ed from the time OF her aoihissloh 70 'iis
hospieai.
noiiias iiopAliis' oiie y eis ,1,1, 81,
OF the slrlcken Idiniis OF NO, - Soi4eiu
street, Helgnls, also aleo. lhs itlle re-
low perslseea IN picAing mo sores Wlsu
ms nhger hails ana oiooa poiSoiiihs
suited.
aie'i'eai oupeiiiil -
King said this morning tnat Jonn r.
/ Wrishl, OF NO. 10 osueh ANenue' ssisssy
! Clty Helgnts' VINO was rsiioFso 70 Si'aAs
Hlii h9tie over week age Vas "a :
serious cohdltloh, aitnoush nopes u ms
recovery are stlh entertained ms uis-
ease ls OF the cohluene type,
Mrs. Gipson, OF van Nihkle street.
| Jersey C4ty l1eisnts, S.iii a 1iis nof
pltai with Two OF her chllaren' one oA
whom IS suHering from ihiian'Hatofy
rheumatism Her huspano ana one Oh
her children nave suceumped 70 the ols-
| ease during the PAST IS" weeks
Mrs Purceli, OF fiiteehth street no
boken, VINO, WINE not allleleu Win .he
disease hersef renamed az the hospi.aA
to nurse her three months oid pape VINO
was i'll with conhuent smallpoA, lele
Snake Hill today with ner httie one. MIS-.
Purcell was vaeeinated wnen sne arrived
at the hospital and did not contract the
disease.
To the strong arguments advanced py
County Physician Converse IN favor Oh
vaccination az preventive, Medicai SUI
perintendent George w. King, VINO is the
resident physician in charge OF the lsola-
tion hospital, added the following TINS
morning.
while not scourge OF the nrst rank
like cholera or the plague at the DeslE-
ming Of the past century smallpox was
the most prevalent and dreaded OF eis-
eases. Few reached adult life without
al at+acly Now the authorities success
-, -. s4.oe,. ~ .,s,o,i,a f,.,,
Iu.ty iSAt the ut9eAS -
and isolation. Protection from smallpox
~ -, .-.,-r.+s,,+
last Only a lew years, siS gu iiiAPo' '-'.'s
fact is that the efficiently vaccinated
,,ors.o,, nov no exnosed with immunity.
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