The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-21
Only One Doctor in Town to
Fight Smallpox Now
A Wreck Delays Arrival of
Vaccine Virus.
SCHOOL SUSPENDED
THERE ON FRIDAY
Every Member of James
Jackson's Family Ill and
Four Other Homes Are to
Be Quarantined.
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(Palladium SpcciaD
Economy. Ind, Jan. 21--Economy
is in the throes of smallpox scare.
Every member of the family OF James
jackson, including himself. his wife.
his daughter Ruth and his grand
daughter. Josephine Winn, are suffer
ing from the dreaded disease. and the
indications are that four more famil-
les will be put under quarantine with
in a short time. Excitement has
reached high pitch.
Since Wednesday. when the illness
Of Jackson and his wife were dag
nosed as smallpox more than 100 resi-
dents have been vaccinated, and the
office of DR.. A. L. Loop is being be-
sieged by scores. The illness Of DIR.
Clark the only other physician in town
has prevented him from engaging In
the work Of vaccinating to any ex-
tent. DR.. Loop has been assisted a
little by DR.. ]. E. King OF Richmond.
county health of1icer.
Children Exposed.
The exposure to school children is
believed to have been great as Ruth
jackson. aged about II years, contin-
ued in her classes until yesterday,
when she was taken III with the die
ease.
School was dismissed yesterday In
definitely upon the order OF DR.. King
and every effort is being made to vac
cinate the school children at once.
The work was greatly handicapped by
the wreck on the G. & o. railroad
which tied up traffic into Economy for
two days and prevented the arrival Of
an order OF vaccine-virus. the supply
of which had been exhausted. Meth
er DR.. Loop nor DIR. Clark kept a large
supply on hand, and the amount was
soon exhausted.
No services will be held in the three
churches OF the city, the Methodist
Episcopal, the Friends, and the Unit
ed Brethren. tomorrow in compliance
with the health ofiicer's order.
The families who have been under
close surveillance during the last
twenty-four hours and who will prob
ably be placed under quarantine in
the near future are those Of Joseph
Land, Enos Veal, David Jordan and
Mrs. Nancy Pierce.
Visits jackson Home.
It is also believed probable that
Kelso Mendenhall, a young man liv-
ing south of Economy. will develop
the disease. He visited the Jackson
home some time ago and has since
become ill.
The members of the jackson family
are believed to have contracted the
disease from a daughter, Julia Jack
son, living at Anderson. who visited
her parents a short time ago and was
taken sick while here. She later re-
turned to Anderson and there her case
was diagnosed as smallpox. Two 9th
er daughters also living at Anderson.
visited at the same time, but did not
contract the disease
The little grandchild. Josephine
Winn, was declared to be suffering
from smallpox by DR.. Loop today.
DR.. King believes that ii the school
children can all be vaccinated imme-
diately and the spread of the disease
prevented among them. an epidemic
can be averted. The exposure from
Jackson and his wife is not believed
to have been great as both were con-
fined to their home before the nature
OF their illness was discovered
DR.. King states that the expiration
of twelve days il will be known defin-
itely whether there is any danger of
an epidemic. All cases from the Jack
son family should be developed by
that time, he says
The streets of this place are COM
paratively deserted and very little ac-
tivity is noted about town Business
The fact that the disease was con
tracted from an Anderson resident
calls attention to a recent incident IN
Richmond. man from that city by
the name of Davis called on relatives
here and was taken sick immediately.
He called upon DR.. Roy Morrow who
said he was suffering from smallpox.
Before he could be placed under quar-
antine he left the city for Anderson
THE WEATHER