The Washington times., 1905-03-23
SMALLPOX BREAKS
OUT IN HOSPITAL
Two, Probably Three, Nurses
Down With Malady.
TRACED TO Mr.. LUDDINGTON
George Washington Institution, With
Ninety Inmates, Placed Under
Strict Quarantine.

Ninety patients and the entire corps
OF nurses and doctors at the George
washington University Hospital, in II
street northwest. between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, are under quar-
antine. Five nurses from the hospital
are at the detention camp, near Eight
eenth and d streets southeast, and two
others are in the smallpox hospital
Smallpox broke out yesterday after
noon in the ranks of the nurses, and
veritable epidemic of the dread disease
Is feared within the four walls of the
George Washington University Hos
p1tal. Everyone IN the institution, doc
tors, nurses, attendants, patients. and
servants, Is being vaccinated,
Traced to Luddington.
All the cases are traced back to Will
lam 2. Luddington, the St. Louis civil
engineer, who developed smallpox while
here to attend the inauguration, and
who was admitted to the hospital and
given treatment before the nature of
his malady was discovered.
LuddinsJon was taken i'll in q Turk
ish bath on March 2, and carried direct
" TO the hospital On March his all
ment was diagnosed as measles and not
until then was he placed in an isolated
ward. Three more days passed, during
Mary CARY, two nurses, were con1ned
to the same section OF the hospital to
attend Luddington. On March Health
Office officials were called in and with
out hesitancy pronounced Luddington S
malady smallpox, and he was taken 10
the smallpox hospital, There he grew
steadily worse until death ensued on
March y, only = few hours after his
wife reached his bedside
The Nurses Vaccinated.
In the meantime Miss Henson and
Miss Cary were vaccinated and isolated
on the top floor of the George Wash
fngton University Hospital Miss Her.
sons vaccination did not take, and,
as stated in yesterdays Times. she was
stricken with smallpox on Saturday and
was removed to the smallpox hospital
oueTuesday. Her case is pronounced a
mild lone and it is thought she VIII re
cover
Miss Rebecca Blue, a special nurse,
caring for d patient on the third floor,
was taken sick Tuesday night. Three
hours later the unmistakaple eruptlonS
of smallpox made their appearance anc
increased with each passing moment
Yesterday afternoon she was taken tC
the smallpox hospital. The patient
nursed by Miss Blue has been constant
ly exposed to the danger OF infection
and particularly so because weakened Dy
other disease. Other nurses, doctors
and attendants have also been closely
associated with Miss Blue, and subjec'
to Infection.
Miss Thompson III.
Later Yesterday Miss Thompson, an
other special nurse on the first floor,
was taken sick and as a precautionary
measure she was sent to the deten-:cn
camp. 1t was stated this morning thai
her ailnent was almost certainly small
pox The man patient who was under
Miss Thompson's care and the patients
wife, who was in the room much OF the
time, have been quarantlned on the hrs
floor Of the hospital.
When the Health Office was informed
of the gravity of the situation at th'
George Washington University Hospital
DIR. Woodward and his assistant, DR.
Fowler, made q personal examination o
all wards and IfterWard drew up 81
agreement which was signed by w. f
r. Phillips, the superintendent of TIL
hospital. BY the terms of this no nev
patients will be taken into the hospIta
and 10 one admitted TO the institution 70
any purpose without the consent of tn
-suDeriutendent or of the Health Office
Patients not under strict quarantine ma
leave when the Health Officer has bee
notified so that they may be kept unde
observation Entrance to the new Dor
ticn of the hospital has been barred an
the office of the institution has bee
moved from the first to the second floor
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