SMALLPOX AROUND THE STATE 1900

The Dallas Morning News
March 10 1900
SMALLPOX
Three Cases at Athens.

Athens, Tex., March 9 -- Three well-developed cases of smallpox were
discovered in the cars of the steel-laying gang yesterday on the Texas
and New Orleans Railroad at Stockard, eight miles west of here. There
are about seventy-five negroes in this gang employed in laying track, two
of which have smallpox. The foreman of the gang, a white man, has a well-
developed case also. When it was reported in camp that smallpox had
broken out, the negroes scattered in every direction, but the officers report
this morning that they have succeeded in capturing about fifty of them, who
will be held in detention camps for further development.

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To Remove Infected People.

Terrell, Tex., March 9 -- There was a special session of the Commissioners'
Court at Kaufman today to take action on the reported cases of smallpox at
Mabank, below Kemp, this county. Dr. F S White of this place, who is the
County Physician, gave instructions to place the parties afflicted in a pesthouse,
and suggested that the Texas New Orleans Railroad officials be notified to
remove the cases off the line of the railroad, so as to prevent the necessity of
quarantine regulations being established.

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Case Reported Near Dawson.

Corsicana, Tex., March 9 -- A case of smallpox, or a case of sickness said to be
well-developed smallpox, on the B J Williams ranch, near Dawson, in this county,
was reported to County Health Officer Pannill today, and he will investigate it at
once. The patient is reported to be a white man.

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Released from Detention Camp.

Greenville, Tex., March 9 -- J T Bond of this city; who has charge of the smallpox
cases at Wolfe City, was here yesterday, and says he released nine from the
detention camp yesterday. He has six more in the pest camp, and says there
are no more exposures. He is certain the disease has run its course there.

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Georgetown Patient Recovers.

Georgetown, Tex., March 9 -- The negro man who has been under quarantine
at Hutto for smallpox, has recovered, but his wife has developed an unmistakable
case of the disease.

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No New Cases at Marshall.

Marshall, Tex., March 9 -- The smallpox situation remains unchanged save that
Tom Mays' condition is pronounced critical. The disease is confined among the negroes.

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