The Cook County herald., 1904-01-23
EPIDEMIC 9 1 SlJBDJJEDsl' j B D IDS
a Duluth Duluth # Doctor and u Nurse
i. Volunteer Their Services. .

A Duluth B Doctor . and Nurse
Volunteer Their Services.
I NOT AN OBJECT OF CHARITY.
Our Condition Exaggerated by Du-
Iuth Papers. ~ -~e
A diphtheria epidemic is raging at
Grand Marais, On the north shore. The
first news of it was brought to Duluth
Saturday by Capt. Andrew .CIauson,
master OF tho steamer Mable Bradshaw.
through Capt. C|aueon the people of
Grand Marais appealed for medical at
tendance and for nurses. Dr. Houston.
the only physician in the village, being
seriously i'll, and several other critical
cases absolutely without q medical at
tendant.
Capt. Clausen communicated with DR..
J. j. Eklund and the latter hastened to
place the matter before thu state board
of health.
Two Dulnthians, however, have not
waited unti! the state takes steps to re-
Ileve the sufferers at Grand Marais.
Dr. H. l.. Cheney and Miss Emma Boyd,
tee latter nurse at the st. Luke's hos
p1tal, volunteered their services yeeter-
day, as soon as they learned Of the
situation, and went to Two Harbors,
where they expected to take the steamer
Bon Ami for Grand Marais. It is pos
/ slhle that the boat will be unable to get
into the harbor at Gran l Marais and the
physician and nurse may have to walk
over an ice field.
The report of the spread of the disease
at Grand Marais included the statement
that there was no anti-toxine in the viii
lage.
During some of the winter mouths
Grand Marais is cut off from conmuni-
cation With the outside world except by
a ride on s|eighs over a rough country
from Two Harbors, and it is likely that
Miss Boyd and DR.. Cheney will have to
return by that route.
Both the nurse ard the physician have
gone to Grand Marais on their own re-
spons1bll1ty, and are bearing their own
expenses, besides taking along guam
tity of antl-toxine.
Miss Boyd graduated with a class of
nurses from st. Luke's hospital in 1902
and has been on the extra list at the
hospital for the past year.-Duluth
Evening Herald.
ln view OF some errors we notice in
the city papers as to Grand Mara1s, and
it's condition as to diphtheria, it may be
we'll to say we are located 80 miles from
Two Harbors. From the close of nav1-
cation in the fall, to the openlng of
navigation in the spring, we have COM
munication by stage, east and west, three
times a week. These stages carry the
mail.
AS to diphtheria, four houses have
beer quarantined; nine cases of the
disease have developed: one death, that
OF a little boy four years old, Elmer
Cecil Engelson, has occurred. Two
houses, quarantined. have been fumi-
gated, the patients within having been
declared cured by the health officer, DR..
Cheney. One of the two remaining
houses under quarantine will probably
oe relieved of it next Monday, all with
in are about well. The only remaining
house then under quarantine will be DR..
Houston's, and he is now thought to be
out OF danger and gaining every day.
DR.. E. l.. Cheney, of Duluth, and Miss
Emma Boyd trained nurse of St.
Luke's hospital in Duluth, in response
to request for help from our authori-
ties through Capt. Clansen, started for
this place from Duluth on the train, ex.
pectlng to take the Bon Ami at Two
Harbors for Grand Marais but ice
blocked the harbor and prevented a
start. After waiting two days Dr.
Cheney hired livery and with Miss
Boyd started Tuesday morning and
reached Grand Marais Wednesday even
ing. The patients were all then doing
we'll and under excellent care. Miss
Boyd's services were thought unneces-
sary SO she Returned on the Bon Ami
Friday Morning, that boat having ar
rived but few hours after the doctor
and Miss Boyd came by livery Wednes
day evening DR.. Cheney will remain as
long as his services are required.
The people of Grand Marais resent the
lmputatlon made in Duluth papers that
they arc objects of charity. The ex-
penses of DR.. Cheney, or Of whoever
might come, and for medicines and any
remedies necessary were provided for
before the call for help was made.
Grand Marals has always paid it's bills
and will continue to do so. The call for
doctor was made in this case with the
same thought of paying for it as for any
other call.