The Penn's Grove record., 1915-04-02
SMALLPOX SCARE
IN SOUTH JERSEY
Thought That Commuter Trains
May Garry Disease
SAFEGUARDS AT MILLWLLE
Spreads to Other Towns-Many Health
Inspectors at Work in the Infected
Districts-No Tickets Sold to
Suspects at the Stations.

Districts-No Tickets Sold to
Suspects at the Stations.
Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-Reports received by the
State Board of Health show that moth
ing that has occurred in South Jersey
in the vicinity of Melville for years has
tended to rouse the people as has the
smallpox scare" which now prevails,
not only in Millville, but for miles
around. Practically every health in
spector that is available is investi-
eating suspicious cases and trying to
induce the citizens to cooperate with
them in getting the disease under con-
troll. Until the epidemic is we'll under
control the local public schools will
not reopen.
Physicians are vaccinating hundreds
of citizens. They and others working
on the cases report eighty cases Of
smallpox in the vicinity. There are
now nineteen houses in Millville which
have been placed under quarantine.
The business places and offices where
children are employed have also been
visited by the inspectors, and where
employees were found to live close to
the quarantined houses they were vac
cinated.
A dispatch from Millville says the
moving picture houses have been or
dered closed indefinitely, but the
churches will be allowed to open and
conduct services as usual on Sundays.
At the railroad station here the ply
sicians are on duty night and day look
ing for suspicious cases, and also see
ing that no persons who have not
been v~accinated enter or leave town.
This regime will be kept up for sever
al days, it is expected. The ticket
agent at the station has been ordered
to sell no tickets t prospective pas
sengers until they have been exam
ined by the physicians there. In this
way it is hoped to keep the disease
from spreading to other towns and
cities.
The Mulberry Street Mission here
vas ordered closed for the time being
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two persons showing symptoms of
smallpox were in the place recently.
The revival meetings which were
to have been conducted in the newly
erected tabernacle here, are off for
the present also. Rev. DR.. George
Wood Anderson was to have come
here and opened the campaign, but
because of this epidemic he has been
asked to remain away for the present
at least.
Twelve Houses Under Guard.
Twelve houses, four in South Mill
vile, five in East MillvilIe, two on
the West Side, two on Buck street
and one on Mcneil street are under
guard. The occupants are not per
mitted to leave. The policemen re-
port the needs Of the families and
Marshal Charles Biggs purchases gro
ceries and other articles for them
These are placed in a box and put be-
fore the front doors.
Fifteen employees Of the South Mill
vile Glass Works have been ordered
out of the factory. All lived in houses
where supected cases of smallpox ex-
list, and some of them show symptoms
of the disease. Fifteen hundred other
employees have been told to get vac
cinated or bring certificates showing
they had been so treated in the last
seven years if they wished to return
to work.
Special policemen detailed to guard
the quarantined houses report that
many occupants of the houses were
slipping out rear entrances. Mayor
Harry Geig says he will urge upon the
City Commissioners and the Board of
Health that more special policemen
be authorized. He will also urge the
renting of a large vacant house some
distance from the town to be used
as an Isolation place to house these
offenders.
The West Shore and Seashore Rail
road in Camden is leaving no stone
unturned to prevent the spread of the
disease. A notice has been posted
in its station advising all its employees
to be vaccinated and to cooperate
with the health authorities of Camden
and Millville. D~isinfectants have
been sprayed in the company's offices,
All tickets collected on the Mill
vile divisions are being fumigated
and physicians are keeping close
watch on trainmen for symptoms. The
railroads physicians are busy vac
cinating employees.
The authorities here have been ask.
ed by DR.. A. A. Cairns, of the Phila-
delphia Board of Health, for a list
of persons who commute between here
and Philadelphia. Doctor Cairns will
insist on wholesale vaccinations in
the Philadelphia places where these
people work.
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