Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-28
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still Indignant today over his enforced
vaccination yesterday. At first he re.
FUSED to allow the doctors to vaocinate
him. and a policeman was placed in front
OF his house and a strict quarantine es-
tablished AT o'clock he announced that
they could vacclnate him his wife and
! son. II they desired He explained that
/" years ago he was vaccnated and he
was III for several weeks as n result.
Il live a square and a half from the
house where the smallpox was" he said
today. The doctors exceeded their au.
thority. They had no right to vaccinate
me ana l wouldn't have let them IL I
dldht have to go TO work today"
VICTIM A NEGREss.
The smallpox patient discovered I'm
south Philadelphia was Mrs. Mary Mills.
SO-year.old negress. who was employed
as domestic at the boarding house of
Mrs George S. Baker 35th street near
foWelton avenue. according to Dr. A. A..
earns, chief medical inspector of the Blu.
Teau OF Health and Charities The woman
liNed at 2229 Kimball street with her sis.
ter, "Pnkey' Mills, 81 years old: her
daughter Roberta, 13 years old aud Thad.
deus Betchau boarder The last three
named have been taken to the hospital for
observation. and a similar precautIon has
been taken with Martha Reed, mother OF
Walter Reed. who was stricken by the
disease at 4l27 Ludlow street. Mrs. Reed
Is said TO have been employed as a domes.
tic at the home of South 4Sd street
physician
1t Is believed that Mrs Mills brought
the disease to this city from Virginia and
that keed contracted II in calling at her
home. The latter first became in on Feb
ruary lS, and since that time has min
gied freely IN crowds, going to motion
picture shows and travelling in crowded
elevated trains and trolley cars Mrs
Mills and other occupants OF her home
have also mingled freely with persons in
the nelghborhood
Temporary quarantines were established
by the police in several houses because
the residents refused to he vaCcinated.
Five persons were thus nterned in n house
on Market street near 40th for several
hours yesterday before they submitted to
the operation and similar steps were found
necessary at the home of Joseph Mousely
1909 South Bouvier street. and in three
houses in today's affected area. Two of
these are between 22d and 23d streets on
Carpenter and the third on 22d near Car
penter street
DR.. A. A. Cairns ordered the quarantine
today as soon as the case was reported
Fifty-one physicians, carrying needles and
other necessary instruments, were sent
to the district.
They visited each house within the
zone defined by Doctor Cairns. accom-
panied by 81 policemen. Commanded by
Lieutenant Bennett and Sergeant Dever.
the patrolmen exercised every precaution
to prevent the escape of persons who
wished to eVade vaccination.
The quarantined district included KIM
ball street, where the smallpox was dis
covered, and League street another small
highway. Two sisters living at 2239
Kimball street refused to be vaccnated
They were acting within their legal rights
but the physicians also exercised their
prerogative by quarantining the residence
A policeman is guarding the doorway and
another is watching the alley entrance to
prevent the exit of either of the women
and the entrance of any outsider.
The district in West Philadelphia sub
jected to quarantine is bounded by Mar
ket, Chestnut, 10th and 42d streets and
includes Ludlow street, where Reed
lives.
Joseph Shay, a sergeant in the .Detec-
tive Bureau, was one of the 400 forced
from their beds and obliged to submit to
vaccination Shay lives at 2210 Carpenter
street.
When the ban was lifted, he was per-
initted to go to his post in City Hall.
Shay is In charge OF the Complaint
Division" of the Detective Bureau.