Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-30
FOUR CASES.
Smallpox Said to Prevail in
Lewiston.
Sixteen Tenement House the Site Of
Infection at Present.
One Man and Three Girls Said to Be
Afflicted.

OF smallpox were discovered, this noon,
IN a Is tenement house at PA Park
street. The persons infected are
Abelors Boneau, aged twenty-three.
Lena and Emma Boneau, ages fourteen
and fifteen approximately and jose
phine Jolie, age fifteen or sixteen.
The discovery of the cases was made
by DR.. Clement at $50, this morning.
The doctor was told by Louis Lang
lois that he suspected that Abelors
Boneau had the disease and that Bon
eau intended to leave town on the nine
O'Clock train for North Stratford, N.
H., on the Grand Trunk The doctor
Immediately telephoned to DR.. Sleeper
the secretary of the board of health.
He then fastened to the train and
reached the platform just as the con-
ductor was giving the signal to start.
Boneau was found on the train and
willingly returned to his home on Park
street saying, that if the doctors
thought it best he was willing to do
So
When found on the train Boneau
showed little or no symptoms of the
disease. The doctor attributed this to
the effects of the cold air. Some parts
of his face, however, We're white and
chalky. The doctor thought that when
ne had been within doors the symptoms
would again make their appearance
and in this he was correct.
Officer Finn was Immediately placed
at the door of the house, and Secre-
tary DR.. Sleeper sought out another
doctor who would. in company with
DR.. Clement, make a diagnosis of the
case. The doctors who would take
charge of such cases were busy and two
of them We're out of town; So after
waiting until 100 o'clock, DR.. Clement,
accompanied by another doctor. en-
tered the house
The reported that Boneau had small
pOx without doubt and that the three
girls above mentioned We're in the same
feverish symptoms of the disease and
Lena Boneau's temperature was 1885
Emma Boneau's temperature was
IO4 .1-3 and Josephine Jolie's tempera-
ture was 1888. Boneau himself had
practically recovered but the effects
of the disease was to be seen upon his
DouN. lie stage Vi TIE ulStdSe III
which he was found was the one most
liable to cause infection.
DR.. Sleeper and DR.. Crockett de-
cided at once to place n strict quar-
antine over the house and another Of
ficer was summoned and both sides of
the house guarded. At noon time when
the tenants of the house We're return
ing to their home for dinner he officers
were withdrawn for a time and after
the the tenants had entered they were
not allowed to come out. thus all the
| tenants who were in the house during
| the sickness of Mr.. Boneau are now
| held within.
Ii is thought that DR.. Young of the
State Board of Health, will be summon
| ed to make final diagnosis. The doctors
decided to allow the patients to remain
| in their present location until Tuesday.
Meanwhile everything will be done to rout
| out the disease.
Louis I.angiois, the young man Who
| told DR. Clement of the case. told the
following story of the case:
Abelors Boneau came to Lewiston two
| weeks ago last Friday. He came from
North Stratford. n. H., where he mad
| been at work i'll n lumber camp He was
accompanied by his brother and was SICK
en- that IL was necessary for him to ride
f. in n carriage from the depot to his nome.
He complained of depression of the chest
,ndan itching OF the back. His brother
was 10 20 away on the same night but he
| lost the train and did not go until Sat
urday afternoon.
Roneau was much better on Saturday
and he went out and got a shave. ne
thep went to the station with his brother
When he returned he complained OF nav
| ing a cold and that night he had feVer'
Roneau asked Langlois to get him some
gin. which he did. and from that tune Oil
| he purchased pint of gin or alcohoi eT-
| cry night.
| D,r;pe- tbe sickness of Boneau he
| learned that Boneau had slept in log
| Damn With a man who had the small =
| nov Roreau made him pledge that he
| wou,d not tell anyone. He advised Bon
| a., N ger a doctor but he stoutiy ie-
| t,.aa n do so. saying that he was all
right. -, -
| short time after that Boneau re-
| a.,.o, : letter from the man he slert
| with in the logging camp. 1t was post
marked Canada. where the man hau So
| s c,er his recovery. The letter tolo ma
| tho, he was not to be afraid. that ne tine
| wri,er did not have smallpox. IL was
only the chickenpox.
Roneau also got Laiglois mother -
write a letter for MIN to Canada stains
thar he was sick ana that he thought II
was the smallpox.
VIZ, the doctors visited the house Bon
| admitted that he had slept In the
sa,,e he'd in a camp with a man VINO Mas
snrposed to have had the disease Inc
| s"pp ..;r,, that the disease has evil