Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-07
QUARANTINE AGAINST CITY
 OF BISbEE IS
 NOW ORDERED
County Health Officer Orders R e t aliative Nj e asures S Against Bisbee for Lifting Quarantine Regulation.

! preventing anyone from leaving or en- : tering the city unless they have health certificate. vaccination certifi- cate or can prove that they have been recently vaccinated or had smallpox. will be declared today by County Health Officer Hunt unless the. action taken by Mayor Erickson and mem bers of the City Board of Health. yes terday afternoon in a meeting al the City Hall. when the quarantine on To- cal theatres, billiard pariors. churches and other places where people con gregate is rescinded and the Quaran- tine on these places in Bisbee again put into effect
 Dr. Hunt last night wired State Health Officer O. W. Sweek. of PhOe- nix. to this effect and stated conditions here as they exist relative to the small pox epidemic
 Four New Cases.
 There were four new cases of small pOx yesterday, according to Dr. Hunt. who states that two of these were in Bisbee and two in Tombstone. All four cases were directly traceable to infected places in Bisbee, according to Dr. Hunt and he explains that this is why his decision to take such drastic measures. unless the city authorities back down from their stand and re- store the original quarantine embargo was reached
 Dr. Hunt says that it is new entire ly contingent on rne action of the Bis bee health authorities or the city is ~.~ T.r. -r.- county until such a time as conditions here improve and he is justified in cOncelling the order He claims he has full authority to take this action
 Argument waxed warm at the ses- sion held yesterday afternoon at the city hall when Mayor Erickson and the members of the city health board met with Dr. Brown and a large delegation of local business men and threshed out the matter of the quarantine ef- fecting theatres. churches, billiard psrlOrs and other places where peO- pie cOngregate-
 Quarantine Lifted.
 A decision was reached after hear ing both sides and upon the recom- endatiOn of the mayor and members of the city health board that the quar- antine should be lifted. Dr. Brown agreed to this action temporarily, or until such a time as conditions made further action necessary. He explain ed that he had believed he was acting only in the best interests of the com munity when he decided to quarantine the business places and churches and had not done so with the idea of in turing anyone or any set of business men
 Dr. Brown showed a disposition to meet the business men half way and gave evidence to these in regard to proper fumigatiOn of their houses in order to take as much precautiOn against the spread of the disease as possible He thought that with proper care the theatres might be permitted to run one show nightly without bad results He suggested that the bil- Hard parlors try to keep spectators from loafing around the places when not actually playing and asked the business men to do all possible to as- sist him in keeping the disease under control. which these men readily agreed to dO-
 Rev. Compton Speaks
 Rev J. b. OOulplOu Ol AhG DdplASN Church was present and stated that while the quarantine would not neces- sarily hurt him or the church that he was a firm believer in fair play and that he thought the action taken was bound to work hardship on the busi- ness men hit by the ruling and plead that some less severe measure be taken to curb the epidemic
 Numbers of the business men spoke, presenting their side of the argument and citing that this was not the first time that an epidemic had occurred here and stating that each time there was a scare certain businesses were singled out for slaughter.
 Several of the business men com mented on the fact that the schools were kept open while the Pehlps Dodge store. the Penney Co. and the WoOlworth five and ten cent stores were permitted to remain open They claim that people congregate as much in these stores or more so than in their places of business while they also mentioned that in the post office and street cars people crowded and rubbed elbows in greater numbers than in theatres. billiard parlors and in churches affected by the order.