The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-31
State Board is Establishing Quar-
antines at the Village and Lit.
tie Trouble is Expected
FAR ERSSMARTUNDERRULE lies
Health Board of State May Have Trouble
in Enforcing Quarantines in the
Rural Districts of Keno
sha County

DR.. G. A. Harper, of Madison, sec
rotary of the Wisconsin State Board
of Health is still at Genoa Junction,
and his investigation of the scarlet
fever epidemic there, has treasured
the people of Wisconsin that the
danger at Genoa has been over esti-
mated. However, it must be adj
mitted that the situation at Genoa
Junction is grave. There are now
thirty-seven cases of the disease in
the village, three new cases having
been reported in the last two days.
DR.. Harper has not ordered a
general quarantine by the Wisconsin
State Board, but he has stationed men
at the village to closely watch any
shipments being made from there. It
is certain that the people will not at
tempt to ship milk to the Borden
plant. TIE plant has been swept up
and the doors locked and the men in
charge are enjoying vacation.
In the village DR.. Bill the local
health officer has been cooperating
with the state department of health,
and fairly strong quarantine has
been established. It is stated that
the people have readily consented to
quarantine measures and that the
| people not infected with the disease
are Keeping pretty close to their
| homes.
| At the present time it looks as if
{ there would be no more trouble at
Genoa Junction if the quarantine is
strictly maintained. The health Off
GERS will probably have more trouble
in the neighborhood about Bassetts
Station, as some Of the farmers re-
sent the strict rules of the State
Board for the isolation of fever cases.
| DR.. Darby, Of Wilmot, who is in
charge of many cases in the Bassetts
Station neighborhood, has from the
| first insisted on the most rigid quar-.
antine regulations, but in some cases
where the presence of the disease was
not reported to the physicians of the
neighborhood on account of the fact
that it was in a very light form, the
| people Ill have mingled with others
land the contagion has been given a
wide latitude. The epidemic in Chi.
cago is gaining rather than losing
iground and nearly FIVE hundred cases
of the disease were reported yester.
day. 1t is claimed that the disease is
increasing very rapidly, notwith.
standing the fact that the milk sup.
ply from Genoa Junction has been en-.
tirely shut off. This fact seems to
indicate that the Chicago inspectors
took snap Judgment on the Wisconsin
1 village in blaming it for the existence
of all cases of the disease.
No report has as yet been received
from DR.. Baker in regard to the other
milk stations from which milk was
shipped to Chicago, but it is declared
that many cases of scarlet fever have
been discovered in the neighborhood
of Hebron, Ill, which is the location
of another big bottling plant owned
/ by the Borden company. Kenosha
has had no further trouble.on account
| of the disease at Genoa Junction.
i There is just one case of scarlet fever
in the city and the patient is Attor-
ney Clifford Randall. He cont1ac ted
the disease at Genoa Junction last
week. The Randall home is closely
quarantined.
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