The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-16
EXAGGERATED REPORTS.

The Truth About Smallpox in Edgerton.
City Board of Health Issue Statement.
| So many highly colored reports have
gone abroad concerning the prevalence
of smallpox in Edgerton that the board
of health has deemed it advisable to
publish true statement of the situa-
| ton.
The contagion has been prevalent for
nearly three months in this section of
the state and gradually spreading in the
| country. Edgerton has had its share of
it but not more in proportion to its pop
ulation than GAINESVILLE, Beloit, Oxford
vile or other places about US. The mild
| ness of the disease is in the main the
reason for it's spreading. Many people
| carry the affiiction without knowing it.
| Nearly three months ago this paper out
lined the dangers of the disease spread
ing because few of the victims we're
much sick and the usual precautions OF
quarantine we're not enforced. With the
influx of several hundred people to Ed
gerton for tobacco work. coming from all
sections of the state, it is not strange
that the disease should be brought in.
It is fortunate too that the health
authorities we're able to enforce quaran-
tine regulations so we'll when SO many
transients were quartered in town, away
from the usual family restrictions.
At the request of the business men OF
Edgerton this paper has not mentioned
the facts as they exist each week. There
seemed to be no occasion to create any
unnecessary alarm over the matter. The
contagion is we'll in hand and will soon
run it's course as it did in GAINESVILLE
some weeks ago.
While no blame can be attached to
people for being afraid Of the contagion,
we feel that Stoughton is unduly alarm
ed over the situation here. A CORES
pendent of the Madison Journal at that
place has taken it upon himself to work
up sensation on the matter and melted
the Stoughton board of health to set up
a quarantine against this city. There
has probably not been time in the past
three months but there were smallpox
cases within a few miles of Stoughton
and some it in that city also. 1t is we'll
enough to use all necessary precaution,
but on the face of it it looks as If an Or
ganized effort was being made at Slough
ton to iniure a neighboring town, to their
own advantage. If these suspicious are
true, it is not in accordance with the
golden rule.
A TRUE STATEMENT OF THE SITUATION
The town is not quarantined.
The schools are not closed.
The stores are not closed.
The churches are not closed.
The theaters and skating rink and
public dances and public library are
closed.
There are at this writing total of II
cases of smallpox in the city, of which 8
are ia the pest house and cases in pri-
vate homes, all we'll quarantined. There
never has been at any time more than 20
to 25 cases of smallpox in this city.
There have been no fatalities from
smallpox since it first broke out and only
two or three severe cases, the rest all be-
ing light ones.
In view of the fact that INSCRIPTIONS
persons have been spreading broadcast
the false news that there are two hun
dred cases Of small pox here, the town
quarantined and schools closed, we take
this means of refuting all such malicious
statements, and for the protection of the
business interests and welfare of the
town.
B. l. CLEARY,
Signed P. G. BROWN,
CHAs STRICKEN,
Board of Health.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
| this 18th day of March, 1906.
HENRY JOHNSON,
Notary Public.
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