The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-19
FOR MEDICAL AID.
City Hires Physician to Work in
Smallpox District.
Doctor Will Work With Pa
tients Day and Night.
ONE MORE DEATH.
Girl on East Eighth Avenue
Makes Seventh Victim.
All Dogs and Cats Are Ordered
Killed Today.
MORE DEATH.

his time with the patients until tns
cases are we'll and the disease curbed.
i DR.. o. F. Narcotic is the physician
who will attend to this work for the
city. Smallpox patients on the East
| side are requested to call MIN at any
time, at his Office, his home or at the
/ Office of Commissioner Stotts IN the
city hall.
| The smallpox scare has reach such
| stage that seven deaths now are re
corded. The last death since the llst
| in tie State Journal last evening, Is
the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
| W. c. Tubbs, 1918 East Eighth avenue
| This death came in the family a1ter the
smallpox had been combining the mem
bers for several days
| In addition to the services of physl-
clan Commissioner StOtts is making an
attempt to call off the union churcn
services on the East side sunday nlsht;
Fearing that the smallpox might spread
| in a meeting of this kind the city com
missioner has requested the church
! members to postpone the meeting.
The city feels at this time that the
| epidemic has been stopped. In the last
Item DAYS no new cases nave been re-
! norted outside of the families of those
who have been under guard II the CITY
board Of health is able to CONNIE the
| disease to the present locality ana 90
nate the services of physician WIo
will spend all his time with the patients
it is hoped that no more fatalities VIII
occur.
| Dr Narcotic was at one time coun-
| tv physician of Cloud county, Kan he
was one of the doctors who went
through actively the smallpox epidemic
| in Usage county in 1902. He has nao
considerable experience with the as
ease and the city officials have 1alth
in the results of his work.
The only new cases reported IN tne
| last "a hours came from 1913 East
Tenth avenue from the family OF Mr.
and Mrs H. Andis. Smallpox has been
| in this home since the scare first broke
out and the territory has not peeh en-
larged by this new case
IN speaking of mis- plans for action
| Dr. Narcotic said;
Il win see that the strictest quar-
antire is kept in every case C oiu-
nIete isolation is what is needed most.
! The CITY should have a. detention hos
nital Of good size where these cases
could be separated from the rest OF the
people. Ill, -
inate ali members of-families where the
disease first shows signs -
Il will spend all of my time IN TINS
work and hope that we viii De able 10
stamp out the disease Medlcal aILeii-
+ion at the outbreak of the dlSease Is
what is needed worst-and nope tlat
We are successful in coping with the
endemic 81 Not tho
disease has been checked: .,.-
"A
that have been confined with the dis
ease" he said.
| Gus charges against some Oh the ~
tors in the city who. have neglecteu ens
cases and who have refused to attena
last night in attempting to obtain
| medical assistance to one woman
called up twelve different physicians
and they all refused to have ahytnlns
| to do with the disease, Sd4u MI. oeO'SS
~. ..Finaliv I got DR.. Crabb who attended
to the case at once
IT am tired of these window-hght OBJ
servations that have been MADE oy
some of the doctors in this town Ihey
bave zone to the smallpox district and
! have hoIlered their orders through the
| windows I know of a dozen otner
cases where they have placed cnlcAeh-
pox signs on the houses rather than re-
port a case of smallpox-this, think
is the real cause of the trouble uhaI We
are now having -
: I have been in this district until
nearly midnight every night nave
taken a personal interest in the work
know that the city has done all IN IT'S
power to assist.
There is one thing that has disguised
the people of the East side-and they
have complained bitterly to the city Of
ficials. DR.. Hogeboom, city physician.
lle1L the city IlSUl III Tie AiAA0OAD liz
| epidemic when he had been taking care
of the situation from the start. The
indignant citizens declare that the city
physician should never have deserted
mis- post in this manner
Commissioner StOtts issued an order
late this afternoon that every dog or
cat in the smallpox district caught
running wild should be shot on sight
The dog catcher has been ordered to
the scene and the dogs and cats viii be
= o.a6 fhsa f1I
ease and people are not careful in keep
ing them at home.
Here is a letter that reveals the
sentiment of the district
Topeka, Kan, July 10, 1911
To the Editor Of the State Journal:
The people on East Eighth were the
witnesses to an act of gross negligence
on the part of a prominent undertaken
yesterday.
The child in the 1900 block on East
Eighth street died about IL o'clock
July Is. from smallpox. At or close
to 4 o'clock. one of our undertakers,
with an assistant, in an open wagon,
containing a cheap casket and piece
of heavy wrapping drove to the home
of the deceased.
The body was hastily placed in the
casket, the casket wrapped in the
heavy paper and placed in the open
wagon The undertaken and assistant
got on the seat and drove directly west
on East Eighth street to the heart of
the city and, so we were informed,
north through the main Travelled road
to Rochester cemetery, where the body
was inferred.
Is it any wonder the dread disease
is spreading? Where are health au-
: thorities? We appeal 10 them in vain
I We need more guards, a stricter quar-
: antine and more active measures tax
en-. and at once
S MRS. CHARLES SWEARINGEN,
= E.3Sf FiCI,fo
. A few who We're eye witnesses: Mrs.
: Bush. 1910 East Eighth street; Mrs a
B. Winant, 1905 East Eighth street;