Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — SMALLPOX HOSPITAL. [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX HOSPITAL.

Chicago Thinks It May Be Necessary to Quarantine Patients at Home. The, Chicago Health Department is in a quandary as to what Is to be done with smallpox patients if the disease does not rapidly abate. The hospital is beaming so crowded that it will soon be impossible to accommodate any more within its walls. Tuesday there were’l6o cases under treatment there, and nearly all the available space in the building and in the new wing was occupied. Cots were placed in the corridors in the upper part of the building and the drying-room had been converted into a ward. Dr. Potter said to a press correspondent that the outcome of the crowded condition of affairs will jrobably be that the city will abandon the policy of rem- ving all patients to the hospital, “It will probably be necessary,” said he, to quarantine the patients in their homes. This was done during the epidemic of 1882, ahd it can easily bi done now. ” There were fifteen new cases found Tuesday and the sufferers were removed to the hospital. An Indianapolis dispatch says that Indiana authorities may ask that all passengers to or through Indiana be subjected to inspection by the Illinois officials, and if this be refused quarantine stations will be established along the Indiana line and the trains out of Chicago will be held for inspection and examination. The officials believe that less inconvenience would be occasioned the traveling public by applying the remedy in Chicago, but if this cannot be done the Indiana authorities will act on their own soil.

Dr. M. R. Trumbower, State Veterinarian of Illinois, was some time ago requested by Dr. J. W. Scott, Secretary of the State Board of Health, to proceed to Lombard. Dupage County, and make an inspection of the eattle that are used there for cultivating vaccine virus. He did so, and has submitted his report. After giving the character of the cattle selected from the Union Stockyards at Chicago, he tells how they a e cared for on the vaccine farm, and concludes his report as follows: Tqls business has been carried on for the past seven years, and at present from twelve to fourteen cattle are used weekly, aoout 35.009 points are produced from twelve cattle So far as I can see, everything Is conducted in a proper manner; no diseased or improper cattle are used, and the product ought to be reliable and beyond suspicion. .The State p-ison at Sing Sing, N. Y., has been placed und >r close quarantine because sever al of the convicts engaged in securing rags have been seized with smallpox.