The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1905-01-24
OUTLOOK is
MUCH BETTER
ONLY ONE CASE SINCE sATuR-
DAY NOON.
IN A QUARANTINEO HOUSE
Patient Contracts Disease From An
other Member of FamiIy-Fumi-
cation Corps Organized.

Very little is to be said concerning
the sanitary condition of the city, and
that little is of a more cheerful ma
ture tnan for a number of days past.
Between noon of last Saturday and
the same hour today only one new
case of smallpox had been reported at
the health office. This developed yes
terday, in house where the disease
had already gained a foothold The
patient is Nellie Russell, who resides
with her parents at the corner OF
North Second avenue and Ihirty-first
street. Another child was among the
first to be stricken and the premises
have been under quarantine ever
since.
This morning the doctors reported
all the sick to be getting along nicely
Several more of those were isolated in
their homes and the temporary hospit-
ais in the city have been removed to
the new pest house. Rapir progress is
making on the second isolation hos
pital and detention ward. AS soon as
il shall have been completed those
who have been exposed to the scourge
and have been quarantined in infected
houses will be taken there.
Fumgating Corps Organized.
The supply of fumigating apparatus
has been increased by the addition OF
number of furnaces and portable
tlIks. Men have been employed to
operate them and as rapidly as pos
sible infected premises from which pa
tients have been removed are being
d sinfected.
H. F. Bodine was engaged this
morning by the health board as super
intendent of the tumigating corps. All
the men employed on the work have
i'een placed under his supervision and
henceforth the matter will be fully
systematized.
Doctor Tuttle, state health officer is
in full charge and today is making an
investigation of all the houses and
rooms hitherto fumigated. Under his
orders before attempt is made to dis
infect place the rooms to be treated
are made as nearly air4tight as pos
sible by pasting strips of paper over
cracks in windows and doors so that
pressure be given to the liberated for
maldehyde gas and thus forced into
every crevice and nook. BY hanging
clothing and blankets on lines sus-
urate them, while the pressure forces
it downward onto the carpets, thus
them.
Instead of placing the furnaces IN
the rooms to be fumigated, as has
been done, a new plan has been de-
vised. The formalin is put into tanks
nected with rubber tubing which leads
through the keyhole or else sman
hole boreu in the door for that pur-
pose. The heat under the tank causes
the contents to Doll and Elne llDerateu
gas finds its way through the hose
into the room.
Under the former system those upon
whom devolved the task of disinfect-
ing became sick and several were
forced to quit after day or two at
the work. Contact with the gas is no
longer necessary and no bad effects
result.
Has Disease at Chouteau.
News has been received that Miss
Margaret Jones, last year a teacher
of the city schools, is down with
smallpox After leaving here Miss
Jones accepted a position to teach at
Chouteau. She came back during the
holidays to spend her vacation with
Billings friends. She returned north
a few days after New Years day and
passed through Great Falls the morn
ing of January 6. The disease mani
tested itself the 21st. Presumably
she contracted 1t here,