The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-08
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The Health Board Of Chesterfield
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THE MAToAco QUARANTINE !. E
Compulsory Vaccination Order
ed fors$Distric t-Judgc Hat
cocll's8Wi1t sProbated.

s (special to Tho Tln1cs-Dlspatch)
CH1EsTl1RT1ELD. VA, March THE
health board of Chesterfield county and
the board Of supervisors to-day held Ia.
Joint session hero to consider plans for
stopping the llseascgof smallpox, which
4 tEisifeared viii become Zopidtn1icf III
Mntonca District. The smallpox cpl
denies heretofore IN this ccSnty have
cos so mitch and been such a m cnlcc
to general public business in the dis
5tricts affected that the county Officials
have been prompt in this cnsc to con-
slider ana adopt plans for tlbc confine-3
( ,1icnt of tho disease within Its present
limits, and Its determination as soon rs
they could accomplish 1t. ij.5
A good many of the residents OF
SK1ntonca District have been skept! cal Us
Ia the smallpox alarm, and have been
or opinion thtlt tho cases reported rs
ismalpox wero only cases of severe g lli it s
cnpox, which has also becnHprevale nt IL.
tho same locality but Dr.IJ e, Loving I. q,
chairman OF the board Of health. ana
{Drs, Jones and Martin. OF Petersburg.
who ATTENDED the meeting to-day, were
firm in pronounclng the aledy gcnu!ne
fsmnllpox IN the case Of nine OF the alcK
* rsons and5ln recommending strenuous
efforts for Kidding the county 81 tno
plague. ati 8, !. !, 4. n
II ON u W ltAltfA4S ~ I|'
r I. The. board decided after deliberaton.
/ that it would DO cheaper and more nd
3yantageous to quarantine the cases ex-.
listing 1T their present places Of abode
instead OF establishing a. quarantine sta
ton. and so ordered. They further DE-,
cidcd to establish compulsory vaccination
within Il certain district. ana To-Day
boundaries were established within when
NIL residents must bio Immediately vacci-
I, a
cinnted within a reasonable period.
3T,he colored and white schools OF
Matoaca have already been suspended
and these will not be allowed to resume ",
york until al! tho children who attend
shall have been yaccinated and 50 lar
possible rendered immune.
The regular meeting Of the. I, po Ga o. Q,
Supervisors will be held on tho &1ourt e - I
Monday In this month.
JUDGE HANcocKs WILL.
T.ha will of the late Judge Beverly a..
tIancock was admitted to probate FRI
dav before the clerk OF the Circuit Court,
Il being O. Photographic will. executed N
January, 1897. Mrs. Mary S. Hancock.
widow OF the deceased judge, who IS inc
principal beneficiary under the WIZ. sl lla
Lifted us exccutrix giving BOND Wl,nou :
security. The estate IS estlnt l!e 9 :.
about seven thousand dollars. Tess so'l l
,n , on tho real estate.
.,rha will OF Mr.. Daniel Bliley, who re-,
gently died in this country. and VINO was
sonc Of its most esteemed citizens, was
also probated before the Circuit Court !,
clerk. TIist estate was estimated at about
thirty-three hundred dollars. Messrs !:
George B. and Joseph ". Bliley, sons OF
the decedent, qualified as executors IN IN
der the will
The will OF Mrs. Caroline Robinson,
~ IN1n toacn District, was proba ted In tho
clerks office on last Wednesday.
The people seem TO find probating Wills
and qualifying as personal representa-.
tiyes can be more conveniently done. and
With less embarrassment to ladies', be-
fore the clerk of court in his office than
before the judge In open court as I'M
der the old regime was required.