Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
SMALLPOX SITUATION.

There were two more deaths from
smallpox last Sunday, both without the
incorporate limits Of Yorkville, one In
the strictly quarantined Pugh house
and the other in the house Of JEFF Will
liams, who lives next to the cotton mill
property on the southeast, and two or
three hundred yards away.
This makes eleven cases in a., from
which there have been six deaths, as
follows: Kirby Pugh, Mrs. Robert
Price, Mack Thompson, Hiram Alex
ander, a daughter Of Mrs. Kirby Pugh,
Jane Williams, daughter Of jeff Will
liams, colored. The. two last named
died Sunday.
The cases now under attention are
those Of Peter McFadden, in his house
on the northern outskirts Of Yorkville,
and rapidly convalescing, Mrs. Joseph
Pugh, Mrs. Kirby Pugh, Miss Julia
Williams and Robert Price, all in two
quarantlned houses in the York cotton
mill village, and all giving promise OF
speedy recovery.
The case of the daughter Of Mrs.
Kirby Pugh, who died last Sunday has
been previously mentioned. The case
of the daughter of JEFF Williams, color
ed, was not reported until last Friday
evening, and the disease had been In
progress for some days, and death fol-
lowed Sunday morning.
The history Of the case Of the Will
liams girl as far as it can be ascer-
tanned is that she went into the house
where Kirby Pugh was sick, and was
vaccinated almost Immediately after
ward. She was in bad way last
Tuesday; but as the vaccination was
taking nicely, her people thought that
vaccination was her trouble, and they
did not report to the health authorities
until Friday, when the case was dag
nosed as smallpox. The woman had
been through a round Of smallpox In
her own family some seven years ago,
and thought she was immune.
A case that gave considerable un-
easiness; but which is now believed to
threaten no further danger is that of
Jefferson Pettus, the we'll known Con-
federate soldier in the county home.
When Hiram Alexander went out to
the county home feeling very sick. and
before there was any suspicion Of what
the trouble was, he was put In house
with Pettus. A day or two afterward
when DR.. Bratton diagnosed Alexan-
der's case as smallpox and turned 1t
over to Dr.. Walker, DR.. Walker vac
cinated Pettus, and had him detained
in the same house. The two men re-
NAMED together until Alexander died,
when Pettus was provided with clean
clothes, required to wash himself
thoroughly and was removed to the
pesthouse that had been built in the
meantime. The information this morn
ing Is that Pettus is in good shape and
apparently out Of danger of contagion.
The local board Of health continues
in close touch with the situation and
investigates every reasonable rumor OF
new cases. There have been rumors
of cases among the negroes, and others,
in different parts Of Yorkville; but
prompt investigation has shown that
all of these rumors were incorrect.
A negro named Charlie Moss was
arrested yesterday on a warrant issued
by Magistrate deLoach, and sentenced
by that official to $50 fine or thirty
days on the chaingang, for violation
Of the state quarantine laws. Work
ing at the York cotton mill village and
living in Yorkville, Moss had been
evading the guards and coming into
town as he pleased. The officers had
quite a chase after him before he was
finally captured. He was turned over
to Sheriff Brown and put in the town
lookup, where he will be held until all
possible danger is over, and then when
the physicians say so, he will be pro-
vided with clean clothes and taken to
the chaingang. AS a matter Of fact,
the negro Is hardly regarded as sus-
pect. He was vaccinated a week or
ten days ago. and so far as is known
has not been exposed His arrest and
punishment Is more because Of his dis
regard of the law than because Of any
thing else.
Chairman Montgomery Of the York.
willie board of health had considerable
difficulty In having the body of Jane
Williams buried. All the local negroes
to whom he applied promptly declined.
Finally he went in the country, picked
up two negroes he knew and remained
with them until the work was done. AS
people along the road were warned Of
the coming Of the coffin they gave 1t a
clear right of way. The burial was
in a deep grave on the county home
land.
A careful count Of the vaccine
points and tubes, distributed by the
town. sold by the druggists and fur
nished by the local physicians, shows
that hardly less than seventeen or
eighteen hundred people have been
vaccinated. There has been but little