Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-09
QUARANTINE 1E OF DISTRICT
 DECLARED; IS
 VERY STRICT
Armed, Guards Prevent Per sons Leaving Bisbee; To Remain Closed for at Least Ten Days.

Bisbee is today isolated. shut off from the outside world by hard and fast ruling of State Health Officer W. O. Sweek of Phoenix. and has been under strict quarantine, enforced by armed guards, since l o'clock yester- day afternoon
 The following order sent to County Health Officer Hunt by Sweek ex- plains the embargo. the reasons there fore, the district affected and tells what persons will be permitted to leave the district while the Quaran- tine is in effect:
 pr. Sweek's Order ''Dr. c. H. Hunt,
 County Health Officer.
 Cochise County, Ariz.
 Dear Dr. Hunt:
 After a personal investigation of the smallpox situation in the Bisbee-War- ren district, l find that it is necessary to place an absolute quarantine upon the entire district, until such a time as it is safe for the protection of the outlying districts to raise the quaran- tine
 The limits of the quarantine shall be:
 AS far east as Forest Ranch
 AS far west as Louisiana-ArizOna mine.
 AS far north as head of Brewery Guleh.
 AS far south as Osborn and South Don Louis.
 You will at once place sufficient armed guards at these limits and ai- low no one to leave the district with out written permission which will be given only on the most urgent neces- sity, such as U. & Government off cials. army officers and such other persons. after using all precautions necessary to prevent the spread of the epidemic to other sections.
 w. O. SWEEK. N. D.,
 State Supt Public Health
 Asks For Cooperation
 In statement last night Sweek said that if everyone co-operated in harmony with the county and state officials that he hoped it would be pos sible to lift the quarantine within ten days. This will of course be contin- gent entirely upon future develop ments and depend on no new cases de- veloping and proof being shown that the disease is under complete control at that time.
 Although armed guards were placed on the roads leading from and into Bisbee yesterday at 1 o'clock. the quarantine edict by the state superin- tendent of public health, it was not generally known that such action had even been contemplated until after the meeting held at o'clock in the Cop per Queen Dispensary when Drs. Sweek, Hunt and Brown, Vance John son, John F. Ross. Mayor Erickson. Sheriff Harry Wheeler, Deputy Sher- if J. l.. Cannon, Councilman Watkins, and local business men met.
 Dr. Sweek spoke and explained that the first smallpox case reported to him had been called to his attention about the Fist of January when he came here to investigate conditions. He mentioned that there were fl cases of smallpox yesterday and that of that number an but four were from Bisbee and apparently all had been infected from the same source. Owing to the peculiar typographical conditions of the city and the fact that several of the cases had not been apprehended until they had been around the city for days. in theatres. billiard parlors, barber shops and some of the men had taken trips to Douglas and Tombstone, that the number of persons exposed to the disease had been multiplied many times.
 Explains Necessity
 Continuing. Dr. Sweek explained the necessity for drastic measures prompt ly to curb the spread of the disease and prevent it spreading to outlying districts and other copper camps. He also mentioned the need for taking ev- en more effective measures in war time to stamp out the epidemic than might be necessary in peace time. ex- plaining that we are fighting an enemy who knows more about the game of war than we do and who does not stop at any atrocity either at home or elsewhere that German agents are act i've.
 There will be no fight made by Bis bee people against the order and no effort made to set this aside from all indications. and even if such plan is tried it is not expected to do any good for Dr. Sweek explains that there is no state or federal law above health regulations.
 Bisbee is not the only Arizona point confronted by smallpox according to Dr. Sweek. who says that Nelson is un- der an effective quarantine while cas- es outside of Kingman had led to measures being taken there to pre- vent the disease from spreading. Since the cases were outside of kingman. however. no quarantine on the town had been declared. he stated.
 How Disease is Spread
 Dr. Sweek pointed out in his talk