The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-10
SMALL POX SCARE
SUMTER REFUSED TO ALLOW
TWO AthN WITH DISEASE
To Get or the Train There, Quaran'
tined Them All One Day and SEN
Them Back.

The Sumter Watchman and South
ron says Thursday morning when
the eleven clock train. came IN LWo
cases OF enall pox would have be"n
unloaded upon Sumter had 1t not
been for the work of Dr.. G.. W. BiTrie
of that city who saved Sumte. from
the unwished-for and dreaded visit
ors, who were two colorel men
bound frou Marion to Lynch 1urg,
one Of them just getting over the
disease and the other just taking h.
They were not allowed to get off nj
Lynchburg, their desired destination.
and 80 were brought on to Sumter
where they would have been Set fre:
had 1t not been that through the
warning Of Or. Birnie. Mayor Je"-
ming had had time to notify the
health offica and station him with a
policeman at the depot to keep away
any such undesirable visitors. The
Watchman and Southron says:
ut seems that the men came from
Marion and were bound for Lynch
burg or at any rate that was the way
their ticket read. DR.. Birnie got on
the train at Florence with them and
when the two men got. of at Lynch
burg fand were Immediately hustled
back on the train by the city officials
at that place, who had received no.
tifcation Of the kind Of visitors the7
were about to receive, DR.. Blrnie at
once made 1t his business to find out
what the conductor expected to dO
with the two cases OF small pox. He
found that the conductor expected
to take them on to Sumter and turn
them off the train there. He did not
have time to get off the train at
Mayesville but he got some one to
telephone Mayor Jennings Of the two
cases Of small pcx and what the con-
ductor expected to do with them.
when he got to Sumter.
AT Sumter Mayor Jennings got In
hurry as soon as he had received
the telephone message from Mayes.
vile for he .kne wthat 1t would not
take the train long 10 get here and
'ometaing mast be done before It al.
lived. He at once got the health OF.
fcer by phene and told him what bis
luty was. He also sent a policeman
.long to see that things moved
'ncothly AMI to help the health OF.
1cer In case OF neel. So when TIE
rain pulled in .here they were both
Waiting to see that no cases OF small
'oy got Off IN The city OF Sumter
rhis they saw TO. and when. the con
1uctor insisted. they mildly told him
hat they would tie his train down tc
he track and KEEP it there all Gay
sor him. The conductor objected tc
his even mora thal carrying on The
,aEes nf small pcx which wee in the
smoking anartment Of tie cclore
'oach. The matter was finally settled
w the coach being run outside the
'lty limits and left on a side track
while the rest Of the train pulled ou1
FOR Cclum bla.
Health Officer Towles kept str!ct
'uarantine on the coach all yester.
day unil Inst night when the evening
train pulled out. The coach WITH tne
.wo small 7oE patients was attach ed
to It and the health officer rode as
ar as the city limits to see that the
train did not stop and that the two
undesirable citizens were taken te
their home town. or to gone place
where they were wanter more thar
they were in Sumter"
Small pov seems to be getting com.
mon IN different parts OF the State
and 1t would be best for the au.
thoritles in this city to be on tn
lookout. People with the disease
should not be allowed to be travelling
about the State as the negroes above
mentioned were. Watch the trains