Another Case Of Smallpox

Miss Mae Carey Quarantined at 608 William Street. House Full of Roomers. All Roomers to Remain Prisoners Until Quarantine is Raised, as City Has No Pest House. Another case of smallpox was reported to the health office Sunday. The place where the patient is confined is Dr. S. M. Hartley's, 608 William street. The patient's name is Miss Mae Carey, aged 24, a domestic who has only recently left a large boarding hose where she was employed and was staying temporarily with the maid who is employed by Dr. Hartley. There is no history of an exposure and the health officer is at a loss in tracing the source of the infection. Of course the city has neither pest house nor detention ward. Enough unpleasantness has already arisen from the lack of a detention ward to arouse any body of officials, it would seem. There is nothing to be done but to keep the patient and the roomers at the house prisoners until quarantine can be raised, which will be a rather indefinite time. Mr. Lamb, Dr. Clark's patient, is still in the University detention ward, consequently that building cannot be borrowed for the accommodation of Miss Carey until Mr. Lamb vacates. A few students rooming at Dr. Hartley's had gone to class Monday morning before the house was placarded. These were apprehended by Officer Ball and marched straight for an improvised disinfecting room and thoroughly sterilized and told, either to keep away from their rooms or to go into quarantine with those already confined. This case and the case of Mr. Harding, should certainly, after the smoke of election day's battle is over, arouse the new administration to some regard of the public health a subject to which neither candidate seems to have been "pledged."