Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-11-19
RESIDENTS LEAVE
TOWN IN FEAR
Prattleboro Merchants Report
That Business Is Almost at
q Standstill.
SMALLPOX CASES REACH ST
II Breaks out in Surrounding Towns
Authorities EndeaVOr to Allny
Pnnic-MOst of tie Cases Are
Mild hut Others Mny
Not Recover

Brattleboro, Nov. I2.--The second day
Of the quarantine Of the several cases
of smallpox sees little change in the SER
ious aspect which affairs assumed early
yesterday morning when the schools were
closed as result OF conference Of the
State and local health officers. Although
It was stated Yesterday that the total
number OF cases brought to the attention
of the officials numbered only about 20,
to-day hns seen additions to the list of
patients under quarantine and tonight
tust 81 cases are under tho embargo,
The paroch!al schools and the Clawson
Hamilton Commercial College were closed
to-day. It is now estimated that be-
tween l. 600 and 900 school children have
been dismissed.
Although the board 81 health Is making
attempts to keep all people who have
been exposed OF tho streets. several have
been disposed TO treat tho matter as n
huge joke and in many cases are directly
violating tho express orders of the Of
flcers While but two days old tn" panic
has assumed such serious proportion that
merchants report business almost Mt n
standstil and oven The slight restraint
which has resulted Is but fore-runner
Of conditions which = will be Impossible
TO right for month nt least.
Dr.. II. u. IIo,ton Of Rrnttleboro. secre-
tary and executive ofHcer Of stat" board
OF health issued proclamation this
morning warning all pcople.in and about
Rrattlehoro n. tho serious aspect 81 tho
epidemic and he also expressly stated
IN the proclamation TINT there Is no oc-
CASTOR for Panic or FOR people of other
towns to fear to como here TO trnnsa ct
business as usual 1Ic also states that
the authorities haze the matter we'll In
hand.
HUNDREDS ARE NACCINATED
Vaccination for all the townspeople has
tecn ordered and to-day the Offices of
the local physicians were besieged by
people awaiting their turn. and between
600 and $50 people were treated. The
people have hardly awakened to the fact
that the occasion is really serious and a
small sized panic is imminent. Every
outgoing train IS carrying residents
away from the town many OF them be-
ing students at the local schools Al
though most Of the cases of the disease
are in it's mllder form, In some they have
become so serious mat inc recovery OF
the patients Is doubtful.
As soon as the news OF the scare
reached Rutland kilograms We're sent
To Brattlehoro notifying tho Rratteborc
members of the bar that the session OF
the supreme court which was due TO sill
November Il had been transferred &c
Rutland. A petition was immediatel,
circulated among the local lawyers whlcl
asks II the session cannot be held In
Rrattleboro that 1t be Indefinitely post
ponei.
New patients who have been reported
since four o'clock are under close scru
tiny and II Is expected that before to
morrow noon there Will be at the least y
cases.
Not only has the disease been discoN
cred in Brattleboro but it has also made
It's appearance in Hinslale. n II" anc
| in several other towns in the near vein
| i,y and these places are to take the same
drastic measures which are he"g en-
| forced to prevent It's spread in Brattle
| boro