Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-07
SEVEN NEW CASES
Smallpox is Increasing Slowly
 But Surely.
THE PEST HOUSE IS NOW FULL

Falls Village Man Found Suffering
 With the Disease Was Sent to the
 Hospital-He Was a Homeless Out
 cast and So No Quarantine Follows
 Six Cases Now ill the Lahamme
 Family on Ben Mohr-New Haven
 Jail Doesn't Want Any More Water-
 bury Prisoners.
 [. Seven smallpox victims have been added to the list since Saturday. One of them is Miss Theriault of Farm street, d sister of Leon Theriault, who is now at the isolation hospital. Owing to the crowded condition of the hos- pital it is not thought that she will be removed there.
 After an examination of the Las flamme family on Ben Mohr this after- noon by Health Officer Kilmartin, five members of the family were found to be suffering from the disease These, with the one ill there the past couple of weeks, make six in that house.
 The authorities got quite surprise Saturday night when a case was re- ported from one of the lumber yards on Benedict street. The fellow ap~ peared to be sick and was having q nap on q pile of shavngs when some one noticed his condition. He was ex- amined by the health officer and found to be suffering from smallpox. He gave his name as James Dunham and his residence Falls Village. He said he had been stopping here but a short | fimp and ha vi c1a fra, ing house no quarantine was placed anywhere. He was removed to the iso- lation hospital.
 The quarantine was lifted on the blocks on Baldwin and Jewelry street yesterday afternoon, and the Charles street people will be let out to-day un- less members of the family who have been feeling sick for the past few days should arouse suspicion and prompt the authorities to keep them longer.
 Health Officer Kilmartin said this morning that all the patients at the isolation hospital are doing we'll and i that the quarantined parties who are sick with the disease are improving.
 It behooves all the people of Water- bury to behave themselves well during the next three weeks. If any of them get into the tolls and receive jail sen- tence they'll have to go to the Brook side home instead of to the county tail at New Haven, which is quarantined. owing to the presence of smallpox at the institution. It seems to have reached there through Beo Greenwood of this city, who was sent down last week for drunkenness. The jail offi- cials have been on the lookout for pris- oners sent there from Waterbury and kept Greenwood isolated until Satur- day, when he showed unmistakable symptoms of having contracted the dis ease. The whole place was quaran- tined and until it is lifted prisoners all over the county will have to be ac- commodated elsewhere. Greenwood is nineteen years and brother to the man of that name who was sent to the isolation hospital from the Mccarthy block some time ago. He was quaran- tined at the shelter and was let 20 with the others and never called at the place after. so that it is very likely that he contracted the sickness some place else, probably after he reached New Haven, where smallpox has been doing business for the past couple of months.
 The prisoner was fined in the city 1 court this morning will be detained in the Brookside home until his fine
 is worked out on account of the quar- antine of the county jail. Hereafter / all prisoners from this city will be | handed over to the county sheriff at the county court house in New Haven. ; What provision he has made for them } Chief Egan does not know. It is hard- f ly possible that any of the other county f jails will care to take them, through
 fear of infection.