New Britain herald., 1924-02-12
Board Of Health De- partment Issues Bul- letin To Employees In Factories To Protect
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Also Writes to Supt. Holmes Suggesting That School Children Be Vaccinated as Precautionary Step.

Mrs. Gladys S. Riley. sister of Mrs. Elliott K. Burr who died yesterday of smallpox, succumbed to the same dis ease this morning at the home of her dead sister at IF Fairview street.
 Mrs. Riley was about 26 years old. She was the wife of Basil A. Riley to whom she was married about year ago. Besides her husband, she is sur- riyed by her parents and several sis ters She was employed as a stens ographer in the purchasing depart ment of the American Hardware Corn. and worked until last Tuesday.
 Funeral services were hald this af- ternoon for Mrs. Burr at Erwin cha pei. Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe offlciated.
 Advises General Vaccination
 Every factory employe in the city who has not been successfully vac- cinated within five years is urged to consult his family physician and make arrangements for vaccination in nos
 ice sent by Health Superintendent Richard W. Pullen this morning. Copies of the notice will be posted in every industrial plant in the city to- day.
 Dr. Pullen's statement is as follows:
 ''ro the industrial plants of New
 Britain.--
 There is smallpox in New Britain, The disease is quite severe in type and should be prevented if possible. The only sure method of prevention we know is vaccination. It is the feeling of the board of health of this city and of the state department of health that vaccination should be very strongly urged at this time. Tho recent expert ence in our own city has shown hat the persons exposed to smallpox who were Vaccinated before exposure hayn not come down with the disease. Those who were v1ccinated after oN- posture have had the disease in d mild- CT form, if at all.
 Persons vaccinated successfully within five years are nos safe. Per- sons vaccinated over i've years ago are protected 10 some extent but are not definitely safe. Persons who have never been vaccinated are in constant danger.
 t you have not been raccinated within five years consult your family physician. Vaccination
 your surest protection against 
 Wants Scheol Children taccinated.
 Dr. Pullen sent letter this Inorn- ng to Superintendent of Schools, Stanley H. Holmes asking that he lrge upon parents and pupils in the public school system the advisability } fvaccination against smallpox.
 The letter is the second sent by Dr. Pnilen to the school department, the first having been mailed several months ago when there were three 'ases in this city.
 Doctors Must Restrict Practice
 To avoid against the spread of 'ontagion. pr. Henry T. Bray. chair nan Of the health board. consulted with the two physicians that we're in attendance in the Burr and Riley families and who were attend ng other smallpox patients and he Ldsised them that they must either live up general practice or their at- endanee upon smallpox sufferers. The 'atients will not want for medical reatment, however. as the health de- 'artment has arranged for the serv- ces ot physician Go take care of hHse and other smallpox cases that nay break out and during the period hat he is engaged in this work. the lortUr will not be in general practice.
 The doctors involved have wide lractice. including many patients in lospitais. Despite any precautionary measures that might be taken. it ould not bc positively assured that be contaeior would not be carried nto institutions or to other patients, pr Bray said. hence his edict.