Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-29
QUARANTINE GIRL
At COURT HOUSE
Rose HALEY Beckstrom, Smallpox Pa
tent, Is Put In Jury Room on
Fourth Floor.
$50 PERSONS ARE vACCNATED.
County Jail Is Fumigated at Midnight
-Going to Watertowm After
Attack Ends.

Attack Ends.
Up in the jury room on the fourth
+ floor Of the court house. Mrs. Rose .
Haley Beckstrom is quarantined, sui
fering with smallpox. The 1S-year-old .
Moline woman, vino claims she is the .
mother of three children. viii be kept .
at the building until she is recovered /
and then in all probability she will be
taken to the WATERFOWL hospital. 10
which institution a medical commits
/ sion in county court yesterday after
/ noon. recommended she should be sent.
/ Some one wired the state board OF
health a version of the situation last
evening and DR.. c. It, Foster, city
health physician received word from
the board in reply that the city ot Rock
Island should care Tor the patient
This morning DR.. Foster c0mmunicat-
ed with the board and gave a complete
history Of the case, from the time OF
her arrest Saturday in Moline until
the discovery. OF the. contag ious disease
Yesterday afternoon and upon this
+ statement of new facts, the board ruled
the girl was a county charge.
Before word had been received from
Springfield. however Judge B, S. Bell,
acting county judge. ordered that the
girl be removed from the county court
room TO the fourth floor of the court
house. This was done about o'clock
last evening. It was decided that she
should be temporarily held there until
some permanent arrangement could be
made. Deputy Sheriff Jesse Hanna,
who has had smallpox and volunteered
10 stay with the patient during the
long wait yesterday was relieved from
duty and a woman nurse employed.
Strict quarantine has been established
on the fourth floor.
Fumigate Jail,
At midnight all of the inmates OF
(, the county jail were Invested OF their
clothing. and each wrapped in clean
sheet. was taken TO the jailer's Office.
while the fumigatiou of the building
was in progress. All OF the women
= inmates. who had been locked up with
= the Moline girl. We're vaceinated. The
fumigation of the jail was in charge OF
the city authorities, while the yaccina-
ton was handled by Or. A. n. Mueller.
county poor physician. The county
court room and the county judges Of
E fee have been locked up and viii be
. fumigated some time today.
/ Since the scare about $50, consisting
e Of faiI inmates. court house attaches
2 and who were exposed. have been vac
! cinated. and it is believed no epidemic
i viii result, because Of the special pre-
T. cautions that have taken.
Unusual Case.
The case is in some respects the
/. most unusual that has ever been pre-
a scented to local county authorities, The
.J PackEtrom woman in poor physical
condition. appealed TO Mrs. Rose Sails
e bury. police matron of Moline, for as
sfstance. Pending an investigation,
dfsorderlv charge was sworn Out
against her on Saturday and hearing
set for tomorrow. she being sent in the
meanwhile to the county Jail pending
the preliminary. II was finally deter
mined that her mind was being affect
/ ed by her condition and that she should
be sent to WATERFOWL for treatment
! a petition for an insanity hearing was
fled in county court and yesterday
medical commission, composed of DIR
/ {. 7. Foster and DR.. J. E Assay, return
| ed a finding. recommending that, since
| she was suffering from the effects o
| life among the immoral element sh'
| / should be sent TO WATERFOWL.
| Largely. because of professional in
/ +erest in the case. Dr. Foster, after th
/ finding. examined the girl closely ant
/ was surprised to find she was suffer
4 ing from smallpox. This announce
Il ment caused CONSERVATION in count
1 court. The question Of where sh
H should be sent was put up to Judg
Il Bell. who was holding court for Judg
II Nels Larson. who is on his vacation
II Watertown BaIks.
II DR.. + A. Campbell, superintendent
II of the Watert0wu hospital was com
II municated with and he was adverse {
II receiving the girl because Of the dan
III ger Of exposing 400 inmates to th
ii disease. He stated that if the count
II Judge found the girl insane and OF
II dared 10 Watertown that he Woul
II have to receive her. but declared y
II had no facilities for caring for con
II tagf0us cases. He communicated Wit
II the state board of charities and tn
ii hoard advised against her reception.
II Since the girl was from Moline
II Judge Bell then attempted to get th
II hoard If health Of that city to TAX
II charge of the case, but it declined
II claiming the girl had been found II
II sane. and as such she was state pa
II tient. Judge Bell explained that oni
II the medical commissions report ha
II been filed. recommending that she b
II sent 10 WATERFOWL and he had not er
ii tered the commitment order an
II would nos until the case was dispose
II Of. He held that the Moline woma
II was first of ali a smallpox patient, an
II / secondly. an insane person, but tn