New Britain herald., 1924-03-17

families Of the constant danger of in
 lection and the inconvenience of quar-
 antnc.
 The institution has all the conven-
 fences of q modern hospital, is clean
 and airy and so located that an abundance of fresh air and sunshine is always available
 Quarantine on the Sheliington fam fly was lifted yesterday. This released four patients and another member of the family who was not infected. The ShellinGtons were the original cases.
 Odd Fellows Party Postponed
 Ccrstaecker lodge, I. O. o. F. had planned a basket party for tonight and sent out post cards with q return card so that the committee might know how many to make plans for. Many cards Were returned with message explaining that the member would not attend and felt it was in a'iTsable to hold any gathering dur ing the epidemic. As d result, the lodge has postponed the basket party indefinitely
 Hundreds Are yaccinatcd |.
 That very few people in the city are willing to take a chance of ex- posing themselves and their friends to smallpox was evidenced Saturday afternoon and evening when the old New Britain club headquarters on the third floor Of the city hall were jam med with hundreds of men. women and children anxious to be vacci- hated.
 At one time Saturday afternoon there were five physicians working. Children were lined up in single file and, with sleeves rolled up were marched in order past nurse who bathed their arms with alcohol to the physician who did the actual vacci- 1 hating, then 10 volunteer helpers who l famed their arms so the vaccine ! would dry speedily, to q board of ! health attache who applied d dress 1 ing and to a young woman at a table ! who took their name and issued school 1 certificates. then on in line to their l coats and hats and out of the build | ing.
 All afternoon and late into the evening q steady stream filed in. from babies of two months Of age 10 the . mothers who carried them. From the husky policemen sent over to help handle the crowds to tiny tots who seemed barely large enough to find their way about, they flowed along in a steady stream. Small boys of five or six leading baby sisters by the hand, girls Of eight or 10 with two or three younger children in their charge, a large percentage too young to go to school but all anxious to take tho proper precautions to escape the smallpox. Many children too young 10 spell their own names, and n few who could not even tell them, were in charge of older brothers and sisters.
 So efficiently worked. out was tho system that yesterday without an ap- ! parent crowdirg or rushing ono physi- elan yaccinated s2 persons in an hour. i
 Many Faint at "Ordeal."
 One striking phase of the whole 1 thing was that older children permit their imaginaiions to get the better f them and frequent faintings among those who had frightened Themselves with the idea that they wore about 10 undergo some sort Of [ 3 surgical operation were so frequent l ss to have four or i've fainting at tho I same time. The faintings usually oc- r ir 10 those of more advanced age, y between l2 or i3 and tS. ' while the tiny youngsters and babies I apparently pay little or no attention 10 it. I An interesting feature Of the l. psychology Of vaccination as ii works I ipon the mind Of the youngsters was | he fact that Dr. r. ]. Mann yester- li lay suddenly discovered several O 'oungsters who had been yaccinat"d A hc day before trying to ''repeat" on V i'm. n Dr. Henry r. Bray chairman Of thc VI edith board. yesterday instructed Dr. 'nllcn to nsk for two physicians and hree or four nurses from tho Ma ,opal Pod Croee