Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-19
THE: RE'SNOESCAPE
All Pupils of Public Schools Must
 Be Vaccinated.
OFFICIALS HOLD CONFERENCE

Patients at the Hospital Are All
 Doing Nicely To-Day-Girl Es-
 capes From Quarantined House
 and Goes to School--Another Case of
 the Dread Disease Discovered To-
 Day. This Time on Farm Street.
 Another case of smallpox was re- ported to the authorities to-day. Ina patient is Leon Theriault of SO East Farm street a16-year-old boy The case was reported by Dr Bellemare. Tho health officer is at the house this ftt- ternoon and if he finds it genuine case the patients will be removed to the isolation hospital and the house quar- antined
 Mayor Kilduff, Chairman T. F. Law Tor of the board of health, and Dr Frost, the committee appointed to cons slider the advisability of holding 2 medical inspection ill certain districts of the city with q view to determining whether or not there are any eases or smallpox in town that have not been reported to the authorities, have de- cided to conduct such an inspection and by the time it is over it is thought that the disease will have been To- cated every place where it exists and then the board of health will be ill position to deal with it To-day the committee spent some time with Mir Tinker of the public schools perfecting plans relative to vaccination. If is 4I, OF n. ff. allow any pupil to remain i'll the schools that has not been ineculated in accordance with the vote of the health board. The internal app1lca- ton will not be accepted and people might just as well reconcile thenl- selves to that fact at once.
 Health Officer Kilmartin reports all the patients at the isolation hospital as doing well, except Hall, who is very sick. Coffey is much improved and may recover. Workmen are hustlng on the addition to the building and it will be ready for occupancy in a day or so.
 Two employees of the Rogers x 1 Brother concern, who were inmates of one or two of the quarantined houses, ! were taken from the shop while work 1 ing on Monday and Tuesday by eile police and returned to the quaran- l tined houses.
 A little girl who is quarantined in
 the house on Mill street escaped from
 there yesterday afternoon unknown to 1 the police officers guarding the house
 and went to school. She is pupil in
 Miss Galvin's room ill the Elm build ] ing. Principal Fitzpatrick was notl-
 fled and after questioning the child 1 sent her home immediately This is
 the second time tMat the same child
 has gone to school since the quaran- ! tine was established. About a week l ago, accompanied by her little brother,
 she went to school. but they were sent | home. They told the teacher that when the policeman wasn't looking 1 their mother had let them out through
 the window.
 I A Democrat reporter found one of the leading lights of the Waterbury bar yesterday afternoon in his office reading Prof William Oslers great
 work on medical science The gentle man called the reporters attention to a paragraph regarding the rapid ex-
 tension of smallpox in Montreal in 1885, where 3,164 persons died of the disease within nine months The
 germs were carried into Montreal by
 a Pullman palace car conductor from
 Chicago. who stopped at the hotc,
 Dieu. Prior to that time most of the
 people of that place had strong pre-
 judice against vaccination, and the au-
 thorities had to employ heroic meas
 ures to compel them to get inoculated. 1 The professor furnishes figures from 1 that epidemic showing the number Of l yaccinated persons compared with that | of the unyaecinated who were carried away by the malady which are suffi- cient to satisfy any man who does Eot want to persist ill always being the off horse that vaccination Is q great safeguard against the disease. I At meeting in Irving block | last night Dr s. B. Mum talked against vaccination. He combatted the 1 theory of external inoculation with all his might and cited as an example of ! tbe evil resulting from such amuse- ment the case of fellow who tried l vaccination and is now minus hls \ L,,tl