Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1916 — RIGID QUARANTINE AT ST. JOSEPH’S [ARTICLE]

RIGID QUARANTINE AT ST. JOSEPH’S

Three New Cases of Scarlet Fever Developed Sunday—Believed That Spread Will Be Prevented. St. Joseph’s college is under rigid quarantine on account of the discovery that several students had the scarlet fever and that practically the entire community, priests; brothers and students, had been exposed. Three new cases developed Sunday and -the college authorities have entered into every requirement of the medical authorities with vigorous determination to confine the epidemic to the college apd to stamp it out in as short a space of time as possible. | None are allowed to leave the grounds and none except the doctors are allowed .to enter the grounds. The priests who leave each Saturday to fill Sunday appointments did not go I last Saturday and will not- go until the last vestige of the disease has been eradicated. The infected students are placed in the infirmary, isolated from the other students. Fearing that there might be a disposition on the part of the students to leave for their homes, thus endangering all with whom they come into contact the attending physician, one of the .local health officers and a deputy sheriff went to the college and told the student body the danger of such action and it is be--lieved the^-young it and make no effort to leave. v Presumably the disease was brought to the college by some student who had been home for the holidays and who had come into contact with a case in some locality where "the quarantine laws are not enforced. The authorities at the college have taken a determined stand to protect against a spread of the disease by such rigid measures as seem necessary and they believe that by so doing it will only be a week or ten days until the disease is completely stamped out. Then will otecur a thorough fumigation and the resumption of all eo 11 ege work. Rensselaer and in fact the whole country should be very proud of the magnificent spirit shown by the priests in chaifee of the school. Their prompt acceptance of the situation as it exists and their willingness to conform .to every rule of quarantine is certain to accomplish the most satisfactory results and to insure against a spread in the community.

Our supply of feeds is complete. We have chop, bran, middlings, corn, oats, wheat, mixed chicken feeds, egg mash, Buffalo-glutin, red-dog flour, oil-meal, tankage, Blatchford’s calf meal, oyster shells and grit.—Hamilton &. Kellner.