Another Case Of Smallpox

Pliny B. Harding, of 518 North Fifth Avenue, A Traveling Insurance Man, is Down With Disease - Precautions Being Taken to Prevent Spread

Another case of smallpox was discovered in Ann Arbor Tuesday. Pliny B. Harding, of 518 N. Fifth avenue, who travels in the interest of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., is down with the disease. He must have contracted it on his travels.

Mr. Harding will be taken to the pest house to keep Mr. Lamb company.

Dr. Hinsdale, the health officer, is active in taking measures to stop the spread of the disease. If intelligent activity will prevent it, it will be stopped. He is having difficulty, however, in getting meals sent in to the quarantined people, as everyone seems to be afraid that the board of supervisors will not allow their bills. It would seem as if there ought to be some fund to be drawn on for emergencies such as this. The same trouble exists in moving patients and in fumigating rooms.

Dr. Schuyler, who had such a terrible attack of smallpox in Azalia some years ago, has been installed at the pest house as both physician and nurse.

Everybody who may have in any way been exposed is being vaccinated.

Ann Arbor is lucky in having escaped the contagion which has existed all through Michigan, until so late in the winter that it will probably be short lived.

But the fact is being hourly emphasized that Ann Arbor needs a pest house of her own.