The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-06
RIGID QUARANTINE
ESTABLISHED HERE
CITY COMMISSIONER TO USE
EVERY PRECAUTIoN TO GUARD
AGAINST SMALLPOX.

cOmmi SsiOneiS yebteIudg dl''iHN'"
the matter Of drawing the lines o.
The present smallpox quarantine SUI
closer was thoroughly threshed out
number OF business men and prac'
tcallv all the doctors Of the city
met with the commissioners, as did
also the representatives Of the rail-
ways operating into and through
Ardmore.
J. n. Pennington Of the Penning-
ton Grocery Company and Bert Slmp-
son of the Tyler 4 Simpson Com
rany, both wholesale houses, were
present ard addressed the board.
Each of these gentlemen favored
rigid quarantine against all infected
places and concurred in the opinion
that the trade OF the merchants Of
the city had better be injured tenn
porarly by strict quarantine than
IN run the chance of having small
pox get such a hold here as to de
yelop into the scourge, as 1t has de
yeloped in other places near here.
Mayor Dawson called upon Dr
Hargrave Of the city board of health
for an opinion. DR. IIargrave stated
that the quarantine as 1t existed at
present was more or less joke. lie
stated that persons coming to TINS
CITY from infected towns were in the
habit Of going to Gainesville anu
coming north on the Santa Fe, or to
rlaces north and east of here on the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island ana
coming into this city. The doctor
urged that all the railroads be sub
iected to the actions of the quaran-
tine officers. lie further stated that
II would prove impossible to Keep
the disease out of Ardmore, and said
that the main thing to be done was
TO throw out such safeguards as
might be found necessary to keep It
from coming in such way as to-
prove an epidemic,
Drs. Hardy, Roadway, Goodwin
Moore and McNeese all addressed
the board and urged that the quaran-
line be vigorously maintained against
all places where the smallpox was
known to exist.
Captain w. f. Wilmington offered
MS a suggestion that the board auth
orizc the city physician to have print
cd "A form of affidavit in which 1t
shall be set forth that the party sign
ing same has not, within the past
fifteen DAYS, been exposed to the dis
ease or been in a city where the
disease is prevalent
After great deal of discussion
this matter was taken up by the
commissioners and Commissioner
Burnitt drafted n resolution along
these lines which was adopted. Upon |
motion the mayor was instructed to
authorize the. quarantine enforcement
officers to have all parties coming
into this city from infected cities, or
other places to sign this certificate
while the officers should swear them
TO their statements.
The mayor was further instructed
by the board to- issue proclamation
requesting all persons in the city
who have not been yaccinated to be
'accinated at once.
A railway engineer operating into
HIS city asked that the board of ,
lealth take the matter mp with tho
roper authorities of the railroads
md request them to provide adequate s
sleeping quarters for all railway men II
Nho lay over in this city and who. In
lnder the present quarantine sys- \
EN- are not allowed to leave their O
rains while here Through a prob 4
Ible oversight this matter was not I
onsidered by the board, but it is I
that the mayor will see to +
t that the matter is taken up with d
he proper railway officials. Il
The matter of the receipt of mail !
n Ardmore from the east was taken G
Ip and it developed that the mails II
rom all points east have been held .
ID while some of the mail from the ~
own Of Hugo, where the smallpox ,
$ at its worst, had been routed ?
round through Texas and gotten in ,
o this postoffce. 1t was ordered by
he board that the postal authorities
,e asked to have all mail received
rom towns in the infected district
umigated and brought on through.
t was also ordered that the post
,Gice authorities have the mail
hich has accumulated at the union ,
Iepot in this city since last Monday,
umigated and delivered,
The meeting brought out the state