Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-14

the rigid quarantine maintained, and
 the beautiful sunshiny weather, still
 the malady keeps making some head
 way, and already eighteen patients
 are at the isolation hospital. John
 Daly was taken there last night from
 Bessette, a new case, was found suf-
 fering with the disease at n East Clay
 street. near Mill street, and was also taken to the hospital. Bessette had been in company with Greenwood, who
 was sent to the hospital last week, and 1 it is supposed that lie contracted the disease from him. The house is quar- antined. The building belongs to A.
 E. Brooks and is occupied by three ! families. Ellie Chabot lives in the 1 basement, the owner of tue building and his wife occupy the second floor,
 and their son, Herbert Brooks, his two ! children and his sister, who keeps l house for him, are on the top floor, also
 roomer, Willie Schaffer, who was
 taken out of Benedict & Burnham's by
 an officer. Willie said this morning i that he did not think it right to quaran- tine him. He was not in any way ex-
 posed to it, he said, and on this account he hoped that he would be liberated soon.
 | It seems that Schaffer attended q | dance last night and also had on his
 best clothes i'll the factory. 1t is also 1 said that the fact of having his good clothes in the shop prompted the au-
 thorities to conclude that he was
 aware the sickness was in the house
 and that he was making ready to gel out The clothes found in tine shoI l belonging to him were destroyed anC
 the place where he worked thoroughly l fumigated. Schaffer was vaccinated | and is considered safe so far as he Is l concerned. He is detained because ot
 the fear that he might spread the dis ease.
 Mrs Brooks the wife Of A. E 1 Brooks is troubled with hemorrhagt I of the nose and Is being attended by l Dr $. B. Mum a man who laughs a1 | the theory of vaccination. When ht went to the house this morning tho 1 guard refused to allow him to enter 1 the house without an order from tht health officer. He got it.
 E. A Smith of the Waterbury Buckle Co was asked yesterday If he had or
 Gered compulsory vaccination in the
 slop. He said he hadn't He had him
 alf ipoculated and intended to leave
 optional with the hands whether
 ;hey should take the precaution or not Mir Smith said he believes i'll vaccina ton. but thinks it is not well to get scared about this thing. He was told about big Irishman who Is said tc
 have tainted i'll one of the factories when he learned that he was going tC
 be inoculated. "Oh. we'll" he replied
 after indulging in a hearty laugh, that's
 nothing wonderful. Many are very 1 nervious over trifies but put these same people face to face with real l danger and the chances are that they'll
 stay there longer than people who
 think nothing Of getting yaccinated
 It isn't question of courage. The man
 needn't mind that It is q matter of history that Irishmen are not towards.
 Give them rifle and order them to
 charge upon an enemy and you'll find
 none of them will faint or run away.
 All of them may not answer roll call
 after the skirmish, but their comrades
 will know where to find their dead 1 bodies." Another man went into a doctors office, accompanied by four
 of his children. He wanted to get
 them vaccinated, and in order to show
 them that there was nothing to it. he I had the physician commence on him.
 self. The man took q seat beside the doctor and fell off and had to be carried
 into rear room. This Is all brought on by short stories circulated by practi- cal jokes. A baby will submit to the l operation without the least fear. What
 do you think of q man who made one l of his shopmates believe that Dr Ak 1 telle was vaccinating people in the
 main office with an axe. "One man."
 he said, had his arm split from his 1 shoulder to his elbow because he moved while the doctor was bringing 1 down the weapon.'
 Last night the health officer con- cluded to order the Salvation Army barracks in the rink building closed. Chief Egan sent out Sergeant Blakely to attend to the matter. The man.
 agement demuTed, but the officer was
 not to be trided with and promptly in- formed them that if they didn't close
 the place he should. They locked the doors.
 Health Officer Kilmartin told q Democrat reporter to-day that all the patients at the isolation hospital are
 doing well with the exception of Cof- fey and Hall, both of whom are very sick. Mrs Clark who went up there with her children has not contracted the disease. She is doing good work
 for her own family and making things pleasant for others, too. The health officer says that the cases that were found in the McCarthy block and oth-
 CT private residences are not nearly
 so severe as the ones discovered i'll the Salvation Army shelter. Diamond
 can sit up and will soon be able to get out of bed and stretch his limbs. It was a lonesome place when he went there, but the situation has since changed, so that instead of staring at the bare walls he finds lots of com panions in his misery, if that be any consolation to him.
 Mayor Kllduff, Chairman Lawlor of 1 the board of health and George Tracy have planned an addition to the iso-
 lation hospital It will be 30 feet long and = seet wide. It will extend from the wall in the rear towards the
 west and will be a very comfortable 1 structure. It will accommodate