Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-09
Augusta, Nc, Oct I, 1903.
l.. T. CARLETON,
HENRY O. STANLEY,
EDGAR T.. RING,
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and
Game"

1t would appear that not all lumber
men, by any means, are raising Il pro-
test against the smallpox order recent
" issued by the State Board of Health.
On the contrary, the board has re-
ceivrl many assurances from prominent
lumhormen that the order WAS a most
excellent measure, and one that would
be appreciated in the lumber camps. 1t
can hardly be said that there is amy
unusual scarcity of WOrkmen for the
camps when Canadian laborers are
coming into the State by hundreds By
every possible route, almost every
day. Forty-cisht arrived at Lowell
town. day before yesterday, bound for
JHclman region. The agent of the
board there vaccinate1 as many as he
could without delaying the train too
long. and kent the rest over until the
next train, the conductor returning
their tickets. SO great is the thrush
there. that the board has ordered a
temporary building erected where those
who are delayed in this manner may
have Il comfortable nights lodging and
have all their belongings disinf2cted
before rcsumng their journey. And
this is only on" of the many efforts
viii, h the board is making to protect
our Stale against disease. All the
board asks of the lumbermen is an
honest effort to carry out the. pro-
visions Of the order. And it is con-
WINGED that the precautions called fol
by the order will not cause the lumber
Non 50 much Inconvenience, not to say
disaster 10 their business, as the small
pox would, should it break out i'll their
camps.
The active work which the State board
carried On last winter to restrict and pre-
vent the spread of smallpox has not cease
for 4 single day. In quiet way, worN
has been carried on ever since in SOM
parts of the state, particularly in the
towns and plantations in the lower NADIA
was-a region. In addition to the work
which has been done directly by the Stat,
board OF health, the L. S. Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, has. at tn
request of the board, rendered efficient
aid 1T Lowelltown. Jackman. St. Francis
| Fort Kent. Upper Madawaska. and Var
| Buren,. In spite of this work. the lack OF
, efficient local cooperation and the impor
tation of infection from the other side O
the st. John River have made it impossi
bic TO fully stamp out the disease. Tn
| douhtedy mild cases have occurred il
! many houses which have been concealed
| from the State board and the local boards
t Nevertheless, one of the men in the en-
! ploy of the State beard has disinfecte
! forty or fifty houses in the vicinity of Va
T. Buren, within the last six or eight week
+, and another man a little earlier disin
fected twenty infected houses and fami
lies. From these towns, lumber operator
have been hiring men and carrying Their
/ into the woods. Many men also, o
course come from the Provinces and tn
1 danger of infection from that source
considered serious.
II Furthermore cases of smallpox nave oc
CURED in Bangor and some of the SUI
Il rounding towns from which woodsme
L come. and in some of these towns til
/ earlier cases were not recognized
SMALLPOX. Since the making of the speci;