Evening journal., 1916-05-01
Finding Of Patient in Liberty
Street Causes Extra
Precautions
POLICE GIVE AID
TO HEALTH BOARD

reported IN. the health authorities. |
under Secretary Isaac ". Bowers at |
at once called on the Police Depart I,
ment. and East and West Liberty as
well as Liberty streets. were roped /
or. Patrolmen were stationed at the |
ends OF the three streets and word
was sent TO the city vaccine physi-
clans to report at once for duty Dr.
ID. v. Myers. city physician, who went
to the apartment house with Secre-
tary Bowers. pronounced Srymrani-
skis case the most serious one they
had yet found.
The three Liberty streets extending
! into Maryland avenue contain more
than 100 houses. and as the district
is thickly populated. considerable
trouble Is expected. by the authorities
In preventing spread OF the disease
there. SrymanisH Is said TO have been
working In a local morocco plant and
all employees Of the plant arc TO be
yaccinated. II was also stated that a
child living in the house with the
patient had been attending a school
near her home, and physicians will
also visit that school and vaccinate
the pupils. The health board will have
this school thoroughly fumigated be-
fore Il is used again.
Discovery OF the smallpox case this
mornipg caused much excitement In
the Eleventh ward, and shortly after
the district had been roped of the
streets in that section were black
with employees from the nearby indus
trial plants going to and from
! their homes for MONDAY lunch. The
, police on guard allowed all TO enter
p their homes. but once inside they
b were detained until after the city ply
slcians had vacclnated them.
The call on the police department
today by the health authorities was
? the second one by the health board
within the past two DAYS. Il was
, agreed at a meeting I'm Mayor Prices
| Office on Saturday afternoon which
was attended by Mayor Price. Chair
man Oscar C.. Draper OF the finance
committee OF Council, members OF
? the Board OF Public Commissioners
and Secretary Bowers OF the Board
OF Health, that extra precautions
should be taken TO prevent the dis
ease from spreading and II was
agreed TO have squad OF patrol
men assist the health board guards
in enforcing the quarantine laws
IS Sergeant Davis and Motorcycle OF
: icer Kane were detailed in charge o.
i the squads, one being on duty al da,
i and the other at night
The first did their first work for th
Health Board about ? o'clock yostcrdal
morning when with Secretary Bowers. %
the Health Board, and Dr. V. NJ. Myers
Sergeant Davis and his squad raided th
sleeping quarters Of about thirty c0lore,
men in Germans woodward, along th
J Christiana river, where Robert Harri.
colorod. smallpox patient. had spen
Thursday night. On arriving al th
woodyard the officers found colored mel
huddlcd together In pairs at the bottom
> of wood piles. The men had remove,
'' the center Of the piles and down in cacl
!, pile they were laying ON old clothes
After vaccinating these homeless men
u the cabins on the ash dumps on IN,
y causcway were visited and about twcnt,
e men wer found there. The squad an,
health officials concluded this worl
\ about o." -'k yesterday morning.
That the enforcing Of the quaran-
v tine laws here is a serious problem
was evident yesterday when David
e Butler, an inmate at the Hundred
Il House." in East Sixteenth street
e under quarantine. escaped. He was
l. caught al Twelfth and Pine streets
shortly afterwards by Patrolman Daw.
e son.
William Reason. colored. who waI
" under quarantine at No. Goa Christianl
<, street escaped today. but his freedom
y was short as william was arrested on
the charge of violating a city ordi
. nance. He was taken TO the police sta
q ton and will be given a hearing in
City Court tomorrow morning.
N In order to prevent the spreading
n of the disease, Major James +. Prize
today discussed the question o
q. crowds congregating in public places
b Mayor Price said that the women o
the First Presbyterian Church hal
IA cancelled a rummage sale which wa
. to have opened at No. 100 Wes
nd Eighth street today. Il was state
fe that the Health Board was to hav
ne issued a statement on the advisabilit
as OF people refraining from gatherin
i'm crowds in public places, but ow
.e. ing TO the discovery of the smallpo
W. case in Liberty street this morning
the statement was not issued.
The recently appointed members Z
k the new Board OF Health arc TO hol
he their first meeting this afternoon. an
all of the retiring members are e.
pected 10 be present The smallpo
outbreak will be discussed and plar
made for continuing the quarantine.
The City Building at Sixth and Kin
r streets, which was ordered closed {
~ Friday by the health authorities. va
opened today. All of the employ
we're in their Offices: Elmer Har
IN of the Street and Sewer Departmel
10. was placed as a guard at the Kir
ty street entrance to prevent an.
m one from entering the building WI
h. might have come from an infect'
es house.
20 Two OF the patients at the Eme
gency Hospital named Anderso
IN were discharged as cured this morI
." ing.