Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-20
QUARANTINE NAY BE LIFTED
A Number of Those First Im-
 prisoned Will Soon be Free.

Investigate Rumors ill Regard to
 People Getting Away From Quaran-
 tined Houses-The Proposed Medical
 Inspection Meets With Favor.
 Leon Theriault, the smallpox patient referred to herein yesterday at 80 East farm street, was removed to the isola- ton hospital to-day. He would have been taken there last night, but the healtn officer didn't think it safe to make the transfer while the weather was So cold and the wind blowing with almost the velocity of a hurricane. There are three families in the build Ing. The place is quarantined. The poy IS It years old and was clerk in oardlnaFs grocery store on Wood street, The store and contents will be thoroughly fumigated and disinfected peIofe 1t Is opened for business. All the patients at the isolation hospital are doing well
 preparations are being made to dis charge some of the quarantined par tles. All the people at the Salvation Army shelter with the exception of three or Tour, who have been re-yac- cinated, Will be liberated as soon as lney can be provided with new suits or clothing. Others will be released Wlthln a few days. Families in houses quarantined that do not use the same entrance as the persons where the dis ease was discovered will not be de. tained long.
 Wlth reference to the girl who went 10 the Elm street school from Mill street, and who was sent home by the principal, 1t might be we'll to state that she does not live in the building that IS guarded, but i'll one directly in the rear. She was sent out of school be- cause she was not vaccinated.
 Mutter1ngs of dissatisfaction haya been heard about town during the past leW weeks regarding the alleged ap. polnIment Of q man named McAlIister 10 act as house physician at the isoIa- ton hospital at salary of S75 q week. lnere is no truth in the rumor. The man was employed as a nurse at. S25 per week, but for some reason or other ne was transferred to the cooking de- partment and appears to be giving ey, cellent satisfaction there. Many think that an officer should be detailed to guard the isolation hospital Yester- day q workman on the addition to the building brought note to one of inc quarantined buildings and wanted the oIlcer to pass it i'll and get him an an- sWer to it. The officer knew his busf- ness and refused to comply with tha request. Of course the addition is f. lshed now and the opportunity to lr this will not be so great as it was While this was in hand. but as q pre- caution against repetition of such an occurrence it might pay to have an off, cer there
 some fault is being found by quar- antined parties on account of the food. put upon Investigation there does not appear to be any grounds for it. A TeW families appear rather unreason- able in their demands. They should order what they want when the man who has charge of this job calls at thelr houses. If they neglect to do this they can blame nobody but themselves If they happen to be short The city wants to give everybody plenty to eat and such other things as they need. but nobody should expect that the bill Of fare provided will be something like what one sees at Del- monico's. The authorities are doing their best and the quarantined per- sons should remember that there are many people working these days who would like to be in bed Almost ev- cry man you meet is nursing a sore arm and many of them have wives and children that are in need of their l assistance, but they cannot remain With them. It is a trying time upon l everybody so that the parties who are deprived of their liberty temporarily needn't think that they are the only ones who are being made to feel the I scourge. Let us all be patient and i try to bear up under this thing like true soldiers. The authorities are doing we'll So far none of those af- fiicted with the disease have died and 1t IS not likely that any of the quar- antined persons has suffered much for \ want of food. Of course it is nat- ural that those who are kept indoors should feel restive, but this is some thing that cannot be helped.
 There is a persistent rumor about town that one of the members of the family on the upper floor of the Coo. gan building on Washington street is stopping at a house on Sylvan ave- nue. Health Officer KiImartin told q Democrat reporter to-day that the family referred to had assured him that all were in the house with the exception of the patient who has been removed to the hospital. He said he should inquire into the matter
 The public is very much interested in the proposed medical inspection and all hope to see it taken hold of as soon as possible. It would put tbe authorities in possession of informa. tion which they cannot get hold of in any other way and would also dc much towards quieting the minds of people who are somewhat suspicious regarding the nature of all cases of sickness in their neighborhoods.
 Some of the factories ale> pushing the matter of vaccination. At Benedict &
 Burnham's yesterday notices were posted stating that employees Npf the concern who will not be inoculated by next Saturday will have to remain away for three weeks. The combany has physician in the shop today to attend to people who have noE vel
 been vaccinated. The company is bearing all the expense, so that no one can say that they are roughing it onto the help. In other places vaccination
 is compulsory, but the help has to pay the doctor. It is thought that the agita- tion in favor of external vaccination will do much good and the thing has haaorna oa rtnr,r,1a, 1T, x,o~,>1, ,,~S ;,