Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06
SCHOOL And MILL
WERE GUARANTEED
Over $50 Exposed to Diphtheria
in Fl. Drummer Section
Quarantine Lifted on Report from State
Laboratory-Three Families Are ESQ.
lated

Quarantine Lifted on Report from State
LaboratOry-Three Families Are Iso-
lated.
A quarantine that caused for time
the isolation of the Fort Drummer
section of Bratteboro and which in
cotton mill and the Oak Grove school,
was established Sunday by Health Off
Ger Chester s. Leach, following the
death of the four-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward LaFlam of Fort
Dummer avenue. The child, whose name
was Ernest, was taken violently i'll last
Friday morning at 2 o'clock and died at
noon the same day. In the meantime a
culture of the chid's throat which was
taken by DIR. Thomas Rice Friday morn
ing and which was sent to the state lab
0ratOry at Burlington was diagnosed as
diphtheria and Immediately a telephone
message >was received from Burlington
and steps were taken at once to quaran-
tine the whole district.
The child was taken i'll about two
weeks ago. the illness resulting in
slight operation which was performed
BY DIR. Rice last week Monday. For
several days after the operation the
child remained somewhat fidgety, but
nothing serious was observed until early
last Friday. morning, when he suddenly
became violently ill. DIR. Rice was
found that the infant had a temperature
of 100 and seemed in a dying condition.
A slight discharge was observed coming
from one of the nOstris and a culture
was Immediately taken and sent by Dr.
Rice to the state laboratory. The child
rapidly became worse and died about
noon. Preparations were then made for
In ftrp npo1 ga
the meantime the house had been visited
by about $50 persons, all friends and
neighbors of the LaFlam family.
On Sunday morning DIR. Rice received
telephone message from the state lab
oratory and was informed that the case
was one of positive diphtheria. He i'm
mediately notified Undertaken Carl A.
Officer Chester S. Leach
In view of the fact that so many peo-
pie had been exposed. DIR. Leach decided
on a quarantine of the whole district,
and with the assistance of DIR. Rice
about $50 cultures were taken of people
who had been exposed to the disease,
and Monday % more were taken by DIR.
Leach.
The quarantine was declared raised
Wednesday by Health Officer Leach. This
action followed the report from the state
laboratory at Burlington concerning the
175 cultures taken from Fort Drummer
residents last Sunday and Monday
morning. OF the number of cultures ex-
amined, three were found to be positive
cases.
One case is that of the two year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward La
Flam and a sister of the boy who died
last Friday. Another is that of a two
year-old child in family living next
door but in the same house with the
Latham family. The third is that of
positive carrier man So years old, who
has and carries the germs of the disease
but who is not ill., The three families
where the disease is prevalent have been
quarantined. The Fort Drummer mill
and the Oak Grove school were opened
| Wednesday morning.
| An outbreak OF scarlet fever has &C.
CURED at West Dummerston and has re-
suited in the closing of the Bridge school
| there for the rest OF the week. The at
tcntion OF Health Officer Leach was
called to the matter by DIR. Grace w,
Burnett, who was called to attend two
cases there. DIR. Leach went 90 West
Dummerston and found that two bows
one and one-half and ~ years old. re.
spectively, and a girl 10 years old were
afflicted with the disease. The children
are all in different families, and attended
the Bridge school, Dr. Leach closed the
school, which has % pupils, and ordered
| all the children to remain in their homes
the rest of the week.