New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 5

N ORDER VACCINATION OF SCHOOL PUPLS (Continue From First Page) Case of Smallpox at Large, Claiming that midst of an epidemic a most evidently e id next All the proxy though maeting v smallpo by it funds for money for out of the Dr. gave smailpox had 1 and that and the the trageable ty pe. the city is i of small and that n the pox, of there someone with a mild case walking the strects and as yet un- ntified, despit city health offi of health in 1 vaccinations of approximate- |8 case in a 00 school two weeks: a 1 children nmembers the w. exee w a entire ted 1o action and d situation. . . vd over an hour, during which time |¢/8¢ in the family was literally in the dark., because of the troubles in the lighting sy ft was' stated that there were na | pt T fighting this elmergency Pullen brief history outhreak. précaution known to me en taken to prevent its spr no contact between the ca Stanley Stanley up to ds f purpos. 5 on Fairy family. i se The s thaf sta ng last « of the Dr. represented Fromen, gular m W W sioif of the [Out. the fat 0 smallpo: must fund. superintendent, | of the He could be W he said. te and als can do, the board meeti vening within th board by Al- 1onthly as de- n last- em, but come X nt commissioner of health, is he Dr. Pullen said the state commission has followed the work here closely and has approved of everything be done. Dr. Bray compared the work heing done hy physicians and others in the health |department to that of firemen and po- |licemen who risk their Ilfves doing Itheir duty. 21 Cases Up To Last Night Dr. Pullen, in response to questions |said there now are 21 cases of small- |pox ' the city, 10 houses are under {quarantige und 35 people in addition [to the #Rtients are quarantined, Six |will be released within a week, he lsaid. Up to date no quarantines have been lifted and where there has been home, whether it be a ne, two or three family house, the ntive house has been quarantined, {all communicating doors locked and health ertrude J, |the Keys placed under lock and key in Ith department. | There was considerable discussion of vaceination. It was reported that |in the family where smallpox broke had been vaccinated tand never had the smallpox. No one ad ever been vac- got small- |the he cinated and everyone else | pox. | There were two patients with mild {cases of smallpox, he said, who had |been vaceinated more than 50 years ago. One ex-serviceman who was vac- cinated four times in the army, but whose vaccination never “taok” con- - |tracted the disease, ical science ad traced street source is not Pour New Cases Reported. Flhiere day, one strect, the the old to this very he said. come inte Henr that Dr. porte physf care of Elihu Pulen said the severe type and not the part apparently He 80 alarming health were four of stat offici t in the smalipox franiliar with smalipox and ne of them beir paticnt being a Burritt cases the n imported variety, ed t) als the W cases at stud school. v of i country. that wat ar it Now taki h local situation. |rangements with the T, Bray, chairman, re Ith board yoster- 68 Wilson Jent in Dr, L most kind familiar “It as be- York ing a nothing but take P atients w ho is has had extensive training in combating that discase, I health attention who are speet had time ago tempting the " discase this .matter, but contraet out charter “lite Dr, eriticism the of i cpidemics of this kind and satd “If | get any criticism it must 1 there is at the trictions o lo bourd rood healt preve wie emerg: which the st reported pro and | quarantined and that all in- | those and on taken off other and to h were nt the law compels us,” Bray spoke of na The L ( has withont consulting the o are here Guently D, Stanley wo physiclans of the almost every that viding wat for board work ¥ ad bus spre Kkept the said the board las mo choice must. ga alicad and bills which will fund he right an he said the possil turally advice a board of rom the ken ne ehalrma state day and Oshorne, the medical fwhenever they those S0« L] paid a4 the bilities evelop ley nd in. health hegin > step n, one hoard fre state Mr. Burr and Mr. Riley both had |bcen vaccinated, he said, and had [nursed their wives up to the time of their death, but neither ever contract- {ed the disease. Another man who [took care of a patient was vaccinated lin the army and never took the discase Scveral of the physicians present commented upon the fact that the discase scems (o be confined to the Inative born, stating that there were no signs of smallpox ameng those who immigrated to this country, due to the fact that the latter were re- fquired to be vxaceinated before being |allowed to enter the country. | Discuss Isolation Hospital The question of using the tubercu- losis sanitarium was discussed. Dr. Pullen reported that he had made ar- state to take | = leare of 10 of the 13 patients now at has a| the sanitarium and if necessary to move them, the health Loard will dispose of the other three, Dr. Bray, Dr..Pullen and Mayor Pao- |neksa were appointed a committee on isolation hospital with power to act fit, ed that hospital it is found Pullen now at rems the Dr, most of will v attaches |and that several nurses taking eare of paticnts throughout the city will, in all probability go to the hospital, He d it was diffeult to get nurses and rd would have to pay at least $£50 a week, for cach nurse, Asked if any families would object to being removed to the hospital, Dr. “The city JPullen said he thought most of them object, Dr, Bray commented: [ *They nothing to say about it, must look after the health of the community, At the hospital they will better care and supervision and [nursing.” To enforee quarantine in the city now would require 40 police- cen and the eity cannot spare them, {Dr. Pullen informed the hoard, There was some discussion of criti- clsm develled at the hoard by those {who are not fully aware of what the health department is doing, which provoked the remark from one mem would have we of the board, “If the procedure had stopped for griticism there would have been nothing done.” The health department is so swamped with phone calls that it is necessary for Dr, Pul- len to take men outside the building to talk to them. The motion giving | the chairman, superintendent and mayor power to act on the guestion of an isolation hospital was made by Dr. Fromen and J. J, Erwin 40 Police G There was some discussion of police guard at the infected Dr. Pullen reported that to properly guard the patients it would take 40 policemen and the city cannot supply them, Dr. Bray said it did not though policemen wer » one will go into th yone goes out we wet phone calls in two minu he said. i are rantine ards Needed houses, seer he nd | n houses a doz There no gy methods | that can absolutely prevent the spread of the diseasc,” was the signiticant statement made by Dr, Pallen, “Some people with mild cases will conceal them, others get it so mildly | they don't have a physician and there is no revort, Ve that has developed that we has heen Guarantined within a and half.” “There evidently is a smallpox rununing loos “One case on Fairview traceable to the house,” he added, “Housing conditions if smallpox ever break fol en sections it will condition,”. said Dr. Tiray. Mr. Brwin inquirced it i would be advisable to close the schools, but it | was the opinion of the board that this | simply would add to the confusion. | There seemed to he some reluctanee cn the part of one or two of the mem hers to iy drastie action, which | rom Dr, Pullen the state. ntiemen, we in the lemic ngw and we have got to have action, 1f you don’t do it, I'll have tc On motion of Dr, Fromen it was voted to order a school children in the city o be suc- | stully vaceinated within two wecks, except those who have been previous- ly einated within five years. There werc 16,840 school children in the | city at the opening of the schools last fall. This includes parochial schools, also, ! It was voted to require all “indirect contac * vaecinated and kept under s sion for a period of three w . Puilen reported that this has been done In a case of a three-family where smallpox brok out in family everyone in the building was vaccinat ed and kept under observation until the board was satisticd they were im mune It was voted to kecp the health de. | partment office open all day Saturday and Sundays until the epidemic down, Advises General Vaccination Dr, Pullen, in a statement to news. men after the meeting advised a general vaceination of everybody in the city, saying this is the only sure way of stopping th Four new They are 0 years, cnse W of n hour a mild case of now," he said. strect was not other side of the are such that out in the a horrible ment, midst of an «) heretotore, house one diseas cases developed yester da Mrs. Hulda Danielson, | aged and her Lincoln, aged 21, of 125 Falrview street; Jos eph King, 12 year old son of Councilman and Mrs, Michael of 68 Wilson street, and Mrs, Forsell, aged years, of 126 view street former King Emma Fair » 1 ! partment Dritain people hs 127 Bodies Taken From Castie Gate, | dead removed from Utal mine !iay, tombe | Saturday unaec the Leen abandoned | the bodics during the structions ings pumps. 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