Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-09

| ! yesterday that il is not during the last stages of smallpox that the greatest ! danger of spreading the infection oc- ! CUTS. but that the most dangerous time is in the initial stages when sae person afflicted is suffering from head ache, backache. fever and the general | effects of the disease which greatly resemble la grippe.
 Only by curbing the disease by dras- | tic measures at the outset, since so many people here have been exposed. can it be stamped out and the great | loss of life that would necessarily fol- low if the epidemic spreads. be pre- vented, according to Dr. Sweek. Even persons with old vaccination scars are not immune to smallpox in Q vicinity where the germs get scat tered and the epidemic gains a strong ' hold. says Dr. Sweek. and should the ! disease go that far here he warns that many deaths would likely occur. He stated that in his opinion the | quarantining of such a large district would not work as great hardship on Bisbee proper as would the quarantin- | ing of the city only.
 Stages Taken Off
 The quarantine on all amusements as outlined in yesterdays Review will ! continue and violations os the order will be dealt with severely. The Douglas -Bisbee stage and other stage lines have been discontinued un- ! til the quarantine is lifted.
 Sheriff Harry Wheeler explained | I,- s--l, .F antine and failure of the armed guards which he had ordered posted on outly- ing roads would result in prosecution and that the penalty was not less than 30 days in jail and a fine of $50.
 Dr. Sweek told yesterday how he had been through the New Orleans and Louisiana fever epidemic and had worked through the entire time as he had previously contracted yellow fever and was immune from it and said that he knew the seriousness of a great cpl demic and that it was to prevent such a thing here and keep the disease from spreading that he had declared the quarantine on the Bisbee and Warren District
 By including the Warren district and not making the quarantine effect i've only in the city of Bisbee, it is pos sible for the mines to continue in Op- eration and turn out copper greatly needed in the prosecution of the var. Dr. Sweek also cited the necessity of confining the disease to this locality and not permitting it to spread to oth- CT mining camps and thus possibly causing copper mines to discontinue production
 County Officers Aid
 At the meeting yesterday the county health board, consisting Of John 2. Ross, county attorney; Vance Johnson, chairman of the board of supervisors, and Dr. Hunt. pledged their entire support to Dr. Sweek's order and of fered to assist in every possible man her to stamp out the epidemic ana shorten the time limit of the Quaran- Cine embargo
 Dr. Sweek said that his action ..as taken in conjunction with Dr. Hunt. county health officer, and She -;tI Wheeler. and that ii an exceptionally efficient cleanup was made the quar- antine could be lifted within ten 0s.-s-
 At yesterdays meeting trave-Ing man who had slipped into the meeting asked Dr. Sweek when the quarantine would go into effect. When told that ii had been in effect since i o'clock the man grOaned in dismay, for he had hoped to slip out of town before the guards were placed
 Dr. Sweek explained that holding meeting and talking the matter ever and then waiting three or four hours before placing guards, and thus per mitting many people to leave the city and expose persons elsewhere. would not have been effective and that hence he had acted and told about it after ward.
 pr. S~eek Vaccinstsd.
 The last words or Dr. Sweek last night before leaTing for Phoenix were as follows: Everyone in Bisbee who has not been vaccinated recently should by all means be vaccinated at once. I was vaccinated today as vera practically all local doctors. county and city officials and many other leading citizens of Bisbee. This is the one sure way of curbing the smallpox epidemic promptly. and il this measure is taken and conditions improve. as l hope they will l hope to be able to lift the quarantine in side Of week or ten days
 Only persons able to prove that their business outside of Bishee- Is most urgent will be able to secure written permission tO leave the dis trict. Even Dr. Sweek was forced TO secure a written permit yesterday while he was vsccinated and took all precautions which others will be fore ed to take to insure that he will not convey the disease elsewhere
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