The news & observer., 1904-11-23
Negro Woman From the
Country Brings Infection.
J.C. CADDELL STRICKEN
Returning From Business Trip He is
Found to Have Caught Disease in
County West of Wake and is
Quarantined at Wake
Forest.

1t developed yesterday that an en-
tire family had been afflicted with
smallpox within seventy-fve yards of
the limits of the city, unknown either
TO the people or the health authori-
ties. This family is that of a clerk
in the postoffice, Jeff Utley. by name.
There were several cases, all of which
have now been quarantined. When
ii is considered that the disease was
whole family without report or care
of physician and that one of the
patients occupied a position which
threw him into direct contact with
the mail, the circumstances were
fraught with the graVest danger. That
no other cases have resulted in the
city is one of those facts which have
to do rather with luck than fore
sight, although it must be said that no
blame can attack to either the city
or the county authorities.
The case of the Utleys first came to
the ears of Sanitary Inspector Sale
on Sunday and he at once visited the
house and reported the facts to the
County Superintendent of Health, Dr.
j. j. l.. McCullers, who yesterday es
tablished strict quarantine. The
UtleyS, however, have all about recoV-
cred and any contagion that is likely
has doubtless already happened.
The blame in this case attaches of
course, to the Utleys whose negli-
gence in not calling a physician is
doubtless due to the fact that they
did not know the character of the dis
ease, and, if they knew the charac-
ter of the disease, to the postoffice
authorities for not reporting the facts.
hot fa iIyr
caught the disease from a colored
woman whom they brought from the
southern part of the county as a SER
want. This woman had the smallpox
but had concealed it from the authori
ties, coming to Raleigh after she
thought she had recovered.
n General Vaccination.
DR.. J. j. l.. McCullers, the County
Superintendent of Health, was phonGd
to last night and asked as to the
smallpox situation in the county.
There are, says he, a NUMBER of
cases in the southeastern part If the
county, but on account of the TACT
that the people do not realize the
seriousness of the trouble, they are
i'll many cases exceedingly hard 20 10
cate. 1t is a general practice, says
DR.. McCullers. for the people in IN
fected districts to both refuse vacci-
nation and to try in every way to keep
the fact of their sickness from the
public after they have been attackad
by the disease. Yesterday, says he,
he offered TO vaccinate all the people
in the vicinity of the Utley home, but
not a one of them would submit to
the preventive measure. Realizing the
seriousness of the matter, DR.. McCul-
lerS says that he will insist on a gem
eral vaccination in the infected sec
ton, and, if the people will not sub
nit to it voluntarily, he will proceed
to enforce the same by law
Editor CaddeiI VictiE1.
Editor j. c. Caddell, of the Raleigh
Times, who has been recently travel
ing through the central portion of the
State in the interest of his paper, is a
sufferer at h,S home at Wake Forest
from smallpox which he contracted
i'll his travels.
Mr.. Caddell returned to Raleigh
from a trip through Piedmont North
Carolina several days ago feeling iii
his room at his boarding place. How
ever, he felt better and on Saturday
was up and taking drive through the
city. @ Monday Mr.. Caddell. al
though ne was we'll enough to be on
the streets, consulted a physician in a
drug store with reference to an erup>
ton that haG broken out on his face
aud hands. The physician, after eX-
animation, at once pronounced the
disease of suspicious nature and
took prompt precautions, both as to
himself and the other occupants OF