Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-02

OOAAAO VI Jul OuOoC1lOOIS SSSIu W lG0l
that the Monitor has tried to conceal
| the facts relative to the prevailing
epidemic of infantile paralysis in the
town. This has not been the case and
previous issues of the paper. have in
so far as they were able, shown the
standing of cases to the respective
dates. Again. permit us to state that
at the time of our fair issue, it was a
fact that there was but one quarantined
case within the village limits. The
disease has within the past ten days
seemed to take new hold, and there
are at the present writing more cases
than any previous time, but reports
are still much exaggerated. Following
we print list of every case within
the town limits since it's first incep-
ton that has been reported to the
health officer of the town:
The Roy infant, Barton village, died !;
the Charland child-about two years
old, village, out of quarantine; the
Webb child village, out of quarantine /:
the Larue child-village. out of quar-
antine; the Bushey child - village
about ten years old-village, in quaran-
tine. These were the first cases of
the disease in town and were simulta-
neous cases. Clara Underwood-vil-
flage, died; the Larue child-village,
out of quarantine; Earle DavisAin
camp across Crystal lake, out of quar-
antine the Valley child-village, out
of quarantine; the Leonard child-out.
side of village, out of quarantine );
Basford girl, outside of village,
out of quarantine; Collins, 80. viii
lage. died. The quarantined cases
at present in town are: The McGorty
boy, village; the Hitchcock boy. viii
lage; the Twombly child, village the
Goodro child. village ;Fairbrother child.
about one mile from village, died; the
Robinson boy. about 16 years old.
outside the village; the Goad boy about
II years old, outside village; the Baird
girl about IL years old, outside the
village the Cello child outside village,
died two Degreenia children outside
village, one died; the Ash boy. village !;
an Ash child, outside the village, died
Bushard, man 25, village; Bushard
child, village Libby. two children at
head of Crystal lake.
At Orleans village there are the
Powers child, the Alden child and the
COathup child, all recent cases and
Quarantined.
The health officer also says that
there have been about six abortive cases
not reckoned in this tabulation..
Of the first cases there are now nine
families where the four week quaran-
tine has been removed.
There have been within the town
Barton village and outside) seven
deaths, and there are now within the
town Barton, Orleans and outside) 16
cases that are quarantined counting
the three cases at Orleans village.
While there have been two cases in
single family as in the case of
Buchard and child and the Degreenia
children and others they have seemed
to be simultaneous cases and if this
disease is contagious it is certainly
very mildly so, for in several families
| there have been a number of children,
and only one has contracted the dis
ease.
This disease has also seemed to hit
the rural districts fully as hard as the
villages and there have been number
of cases in towns adjacent to Barton.
and also number of cases among the
rural population.
The state bulletin issue of June II
gives the peroxide nasal wash and
gargle as a probable preventative,
certainly it is best to take every pre-,
caution, but personally we do not
believe that this disease is contagious
in the sense in which the word conta
gion is used.