Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1902 — GOT RID OF A GUEST [ARTICLE]

GOT RID OF A GUEST

Who Had Smallpox, and Now Hotel Keeper is In Trouble. Dr. .George Rowland, secretary of the fountain County Board of Health, in a letter to the State Board of Health charges that Harry Kramer, keeper of the hotel at Cameron Springs, Warren county, the day after a guest was declared by a physician to have smallpox, induced the patient, who was “broken out,” to be removed because he would injure the business of the hotel. Dr. Rowland charges that Kramer had the patient taken to Attica in a carriage and that there he took a Wabash train to Lafayette, where he took a hack through town to the Monon station, to get a train for Chicago, where he was quarantined. Dr. Rowland charges that Kramer paid all the expenses and that the physician who pronounced the disease smallpox at the hotel accompanied the patient to Ohicaggo. The State Board of Health will investigate, for the purpose of prosecuting both the physician and the hotel keeper.