The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-10
Twelve More Are Danger
Ously Ill-TOwn Under
Quarantine.
PHYSICIANS CONTROL.
AFTER A WEEKS FIGHT
No Church or "MOvies" - All
Children Get Anti-TOxin Sc
rum Injections.

held the little town Of Oran, 16 miles
southwest of the Cape, within its
grasp in the last week.
Physicians are using every means
within their power to fight the spread
of the malady. A general quarantine
! of all persons under Is years of age
has been declared and every house in
town is being fumigated to purge the
place of the epidemic.
Indications now are that the spread
of the disease has been checked and
the cases that have been reported, are
under control.
The dead are:
The one-year old daughter of Mrs.
Marion Henley, who died Thursday
after a short illness.
Fred Grader, the two-year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Grader, who died
a week ago, after a sudden attack with
the disease.
Those who are dangerously i'll are:
Mrs. Albert Soelig, who lives on a
farm near Oran.
The child of Mrs. Soelig, who was
taken sick simultaneously with his
mother.
The three-year old grandson of Mrs,
Peter Benberger, who lives on a farm
near Oran.
The child of DR.. Sebert Moore, vet
Urinary surgeon in the town.
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Wagner.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. S. L.
Grafton.
Two children of Mr.. Moore, barber
in Oran.
One child of Reuben Bingham.
Son of Edward Miller.
One child of Barney Baudendistle.
Immunizing doses of diphtheria
anti-tOxin has been administered to
virtually every child in the town, and
many of the grown persons as well.
With the one exception of Mrs. Soc,
lig, the epidemic has been confined to
attacks upon the children of the town
All public concourses of any kind
whatever have been forbidden by the
officials of the town. Churches will be
empty today. The congregations viii
not be allowed to hold their services
on account of the measures taken tC
fight the spread of the epidemic.
All week long, the moving picture
houses have been closed and in the
conduct of business, large assemblies
of people have not been permitted tC
gather.
The fight against the epidemic has
been led by DR.. w. H. WescOat, who
was directed to take charge of the
situation by DR.. Babcock, of Jeffer,
son City, of the State Board of Health
to whom the epidemic had been re.
ported.
The exact cause of the epidemic OF
source from which it received its start
has not yet been learned by the phys
icians there. According to DIR. Yves.
coat, the quarantine will be held ir
force till all houses have been thor
oughly fumigated and the disease has
been virtually stamped out.
The epidemic got its start at the
first of last week. The Grader boy was
one of the first to be taken down with
it. His death followed shortly after he
became i'll.
Immediately the disease put in its
appearance in several other families
A panic condition swept over the town
Many people believed there were far
more cases than the physicians really
diagnosed.
DR.. Wescoat, who was in Farming
ton attending the funeral of his moth
err, Mrs. Mary Jane Wescoat, did not
arrive in the town till last Tuesday.
He found instructions awaiting him to
take charge of the fight against the
epidemic.
Immediately he issued the order for
quarantine. All children not yet 16
years old, were forbidden to leave
their own homes.
simultaneously, he began having the
immunizing doses of diphtheretic anti
toxin administered and all houses flu
migated.
| As the various cases were reported,
the physicians concentrated their ener-
gies upon effecting cure.
The citizens of Oran co-operated
thoroughly with DR.. Wescoat's quar-
antine and fumigation measures and
the public officials are standing in