Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-09
STATE HOUSE.
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I dictate this as pIiel iNp
cent work, mostly in the reS'iie -
smallpox.
Wednesday, April 20. | went TO Dal-
las plantation with Dr. Peapooy' where
we found that the families IN particu-
lar neighborhood have had smallpox
several weeks. 1t had hitherto peen
called rhickenpox. l saw the local
BOARD of Health and made arrange
ments with them and with DR.. Peabody
70 make a fuller investigation and to
take action Immediately.
Home, Thursday night. found letter
from Caribou. saying that it had been
discovered that smallpox had existed In
Conner plantation some time. | start
ed by the noon train, next day, and the
next day, the 25th, drove from Caribou,
M through Conner plantation and Cyr
plantation to Van Buren,. investigating
the condition of things on the way, and
instructing the local Board of Health
in regard to- the arrangements. had
telephOned DIR. Thompson to come down
from Upper NADIA waska, and meet me
mt Van Buren,. He did so.
Sunday. the 26th while in Van Buren,,
I learned that two men from Conner
plantation, who had recently had
smallpox, had gone over through New
Sweden To Sanford brook, a tributary
Of Violet brook, which enters the st.
John at Van Buren,. The wife of one Of
these men was very sick with smallpox
at the time he left. He was accom-
panied by Is or 20 other men. l saw
Mr.. Allen Hammond to whose drive
they were going, and he promised to
send a man in, early Monday morning,
to send them out DR.. Hammond OF
Van Euren, and DR.. Thompson, drove
up into Cyr plantation, Sunday, and
yaccinated the persons who had been
EXPOSED to three smallpox families
there.
Monday, the 9th, DR.. Thompson and
I. and the doctors assistant Mr.. Sears,
came down to Caribou. In Caribou
they got a team and drove up to Con-
ncr plantation, where they began the
work of vaccination and disinfection.
Tuesday, the 2Sth, | was intending to
go from Houlton to Fort Kent, but
kilograms from the office indicated the
need of my presence there temporarily.
arrived home in the afternoon.
!Tne afternoon of the 29th, l started
for Rongor or the way to Jackman.
kilograms received aboard the train in
dictated the need of my presence at Fort
Kent, | reached there in the afternoon
Of Thursday, the Goth. A case Of small
1ox had been found on the drive of the
&unliffe Brothers on the Allagash, and
Will Cunliffe had taken the sick man in
a canoe and had come down the river
to Fort Kent with him. He belonged
in Wallagrass plantation. Upon car
IT. q a
fhe isease had been present some little
time. | found that DR.. Flint had been
out there on the Both, and had brought
about the organization of local
Board of Health, and had instructed
them as to, their duties. Partlal ar
rangements were made for putting a
medical inspector up at the mouth or
the Allagash. The water was rising
very rapidly when I left there. yester-
day morning MAY -, and the probab bill
ity is that the drives will be down past
that point within two weeks.
l reach home. last night on the Pull
man. and took the early morning train
to Lisbon Falls and Shiloh, where
had promised to go Immediately upon
my return from up country. L inspect
ed five patients and authorized their
final disinfectiOn and discharge from
Quarantine. Five or six new cases
have lately occurred in Shiloh.
No report was made on the matter of
the children's Home of Augusta. which
has been under investigation by COM
mittee of the Council. The Legislature
opnropriated $3.50 q year for this in
stitution. but complaints have been
~, hninyp H.
ed into.
An order was passed authorizing
Ioring. Short & Harmon, Portland. to
publish the Revised Statutes for pub
lie sale and distribution, the price not
to exceed $3.50 each.
Representative l.. II. NeWcomb of
PASSPORT, appeared before the Council
and asked that an order be passed au-
:horiZing the State treasurer to pay the
city of PASSPORT the sum of $1315.4O to
reimburse said city for money expended
for the support of a State pauper. This
amount was granted by the last Legis-
lature.
Representative Beecher Putnam of
Houlton, was also in attendance and
secured the passage of an order to pay
the town of Houlton the sum of $423.li'
as reimbursement lot s,tate tdA, We
cause of the depreciation in the town s
valuation on account of the big fire OF
1902.
The board Of State assessors has re-
ceived the following interesting letter
from ar assessor of one of Maine 5
towns:
"A question has arisen which bothers
our board of assessors not little, and
am writing this letter in hopes you
can give us some enlightenment In
making up out lists of poll tax payers
we have met with few men who re-
fuse to give their names. Now the
question is this: Can we in any way
oblige them to give us their names
and If not, how are we to assess tax
upon such persons? If one man car
successfully evade the assessment of q
poll tax by refusing to give his name
all may do so.
I'VE would like to know if there is
any provision of law by which we car
oblige such parties to disclose theil
identity-give us their names, and an
swer all questions that the board mus