Evening journal., 1916-05-05
Health BOARD ORDERS
CITY CHURCHES CLOSED
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the case of Wilson Johnson, Of No.
1911 West Fourth street According
to DR. Frederick. the disease in the
other cases was traced to Virginia.
Bush River Md. or Middletown, Del. 7
p According TO the friends Of john !
son, who is employed at the Harlan
and Hollingsworth Corporation plant. .
he had been feeling unwell for sew
cIai days. but last Saturday he at +
tended tho baseball same at Front
and Union streets On his return
home he was taken IN, and on Monday
he was found to be suffering from
a mild case of the disease
/ City Physician ID. y. Myers TODAY
said that only ono Of the cases found
here so far was ,lrulent. that being a
woman from the colored apartment
house in last Sixteenth street
Theatres Still closed.
Following the issuance OF today's
proclamation Or. Frederick held a
conference with Nicholas Jones. OF
the Savoy Theatre. and James Ginns.
of the Queen Theatre about the the
atres remaining closed. Mr.. Ginns and
Mr.. Jones explained that it requires
three days for a motion picture the
atre to make ready for its perform
ances. and it was agreed that before
the quarantine regulations are lifted
the proprietors OF the theatres would
receive three days notice from the
Board OF Health. Dr. Frederick,
while talking to the theatre managers.
said. IF conditions improve in the
d next faw days as we'll as they have
the past few days. we will issue an
other proclamation stating just what
b will be done"
No LOitering In saloons.
II was said that in order not to
- work any hardship on owners OF sa-
looms, they would be allowed to do
j business except in stricken sections.
] These will be closed other saloons
y are not to allow any lettering about
S their premises. In other words. DR..
n Frederick said: THE rules are to
10 everyone about such places to keep
n moving"
= While no new cases Of the disease
has been found here. two suspected
4 cases located yesterday were pro-
n nounced to be measles.
\ Find Conditions Improved.
City Physician Myers and secre-
= tary Bowers made an inspection OF
: the sections of the city now under
: quarantine today. Everything was
y found to be in good condition. At
the Hundred House" I'm East Six
teenth street, Health officer George
c. Watson had the inmates to white
. wash the interior of the building and
- everything there has been placed IN
- a sanitary condition. In Chippey
y street, near Eleventh street, where a
!, case had been discovered, It was said
that the conditions are improvinf
and the apartment house there where
= the patient lived will in all proba.
(; bility be fumigated early next week.
!. To Close the Churches.
The idea OF closing the schools ant
churches was endorsed by severa
clergymen. According TO Health Boar
lofiicials. the Rt. Rev. ]. j. Monaghan
bishop OF the Roman Catholic dioces
Of Wilmington. informed that Office b
phone that the closing order was
good one.
officials Of the Board Of Health tC
day requested that parents OF schoC
In NNllultu WHu dlt utlNk hfUl ANUNA AItl
" studies by THE closing orders see tina
Il their children are kept in the vicinit
- OF their own homes and do not &
near the quarantine sections OF IN
city or the numerous ash dumps abou
10 the city.
David Neave. the white man. VIII
l. was declared by City Vaccine Phys
s, clan Willis yesterday TO be a smallpo
D. suspect. and who was detained 70
l. awhile In the police station. was rs
N moved TO the county hospital yester
e. day afternoon. Neave was suiferin
It from a skin affection
r The police yesterday afternoon Il
,r Gated Ella Prichett. colored. wife q
r patient found at Water and MarkC
streets yesterday morning The We
man was found working in the HON
Of West Ninth street resident an
she was removed to her home at Sc,
enth and Church streets.
Early last evening a white woma
stopped at several houses in Adam
street between Eighth and Mint
streets begging, saying that her hui
n band had smallpox and she had bee
let out the back door to beg for fooi
" The police station was notified but b'
fore an officer could arrive there, th
woman had left.
Health Board Reorganizes.
hS Members of the new Board of Heal
nj who were sworn into Office yesterda
N morning by Mayor James +. Price. he
sc their first meeting at o'clock yeste
ny day afternoon and effected organization
Previous to the meeting the followil
TO officers were chosen; President. DIR. 5.
lg Frederick; treasurer, Frank j. Reage
e. secretary. Isaac W. Bowers; health of
a. GERS. Robert Taylor, George c. Watso
o. William Kearney and Walter Sillitc
Ae The last-named officer succeeded Jol
Brooks, of the Eighth ward.
Dy Secretary Bowers was instructed
n engage a clerk as his assistant.
r At the meeting of the board. Robe
ne II. Richards and William 5. Hilles. re
as resenting the committee that arrang
Ok for the production Of the Pousse Cafe
as The Playhouse, appeared with Mrs.
81 Horace Lindsay. The health officers q
clared that nothing could be done in I
matter, as they had ordered The Pla
= house, as well as all other theatr
closed
While this decision caused muC
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