Show I DEVINE HAS SMALLPOX I I Chiefs Wife and Three Children I Chil-dren also Have Disease I I DEPARTMENT QUARANTINED I The Firemen May Go to Fires but When not Called Out Must Remain I Strictly Within their Building The Afflicted Family to be Removed Re-moved Today to a House Near the I PcsthouscOne of the Children 111 I I I for Two Weeks and Many People I Have Been Exposed I i t I I About 5 oclock last evening it was reported to Health Commissioner King by Dr Wltchcr that Fire Chief Dcvlne I I Mrs Devlne and their three children had smallpox Dr King made an Investigation In-vestigation which showed that the lire department had been exposed to the contagion through coming In contact with the anilcted family who reside ou the premises It was therefore found necessary to quarantine not only the Chief and his family but the entire department I de-partment CHILD SICK TWO WEEKS Chief Devlnes youngest child a girl I between one and two years of age was taken sick about Iwo weeks ago und Dr Wilther was called to attend It Ho I summoned Drs Bower and MriniLlinn In consultation but at thai time the its ease was not far enough advanced to be diagnosed and Dr Bower did not seethe see-the child uguln An eruption broke out which Dr Wilcher pronounced to be chickenpox which Is I quite prevalent at this time The child got along nicely I and now is on the fair way to recovery Two or three clays ago the Chief I his wife and the other two chll then a girl of 1 and a boy of 6 began to feel slightly 111 but Here about the house as usual Yesterday evening they became worse and the attending physician physi-cian Dr Witcher reported tho cases including1 that of the child taken two weeks ago as smallpox a view which was concurred in by Dr Monulmn I The cases however are regarded as light lightWILL BE REMOVED TODAY I Dr King will make arrangements this morning to have the entire family removed today to a house outsIde the City in the neighborhood of the pest house the latter nol being large enough to accommodate more than the fifteen patients who are there now The members mem-bers of the Ore department are under strict quarantine except that they will be allowed to go out to fires lint for no other purpose The Health Commission Com-mission was In a quandary as to how to I arrange the quarantine and at the same i time allow the men to go to llres Incase In-case they were prevented from responding I respond-ing to calls the consequences might be I most serious and at the some time the I necessity of keeping the parties who were exposed lo the disease Isolated Is i Important With a view of meeting those requirements as best could bo under un-der the circumstances the arrangement staled was made DR WITCHERS STATEMENT Dr Wilcher said last night that since the youngest child was taken sick two I weeks ago IK watched the case carefully care-fully and only last evening qame to the conclusion that the disease was smallpox small-pox and for lhat reason did not report It sooner All the children the doctor said had chickenpox some little time I before and the case of the youngest I child was supposed to be a recurrence of that ailment During the entire two weeks the well I members of the family have been going about as usual mingling freely with f1ir > lr frlonils nn 1 call > r Infills who have children and others were lsll Sal S-al the residence Dr Witcher yesterday afternoon vac clnaled all the members of the fire dc parlmenl and Dr King will today cause the entire premises to be disInfected dis-Infected I Dr Witcher says he will oppose tho Devlnefamily being removed He says they are his private patients and that they will remain where they are Dr King says however thai the Board of Health control and that he will Insist In-sist on their being removed to a thoroughly Isolated place DR MONAHANS STATEMENT Dr Monuhan slated last night that ho was called in by Dr Wilcher and saw the youngest child two weeks ago when it was first taken ill It was then impossible to tell what the ailment was and the doctor said he did not see the child again until last evening when he examined all the patients and without hesitation pronounced their ailment smallpox I understand under-stand said the doctor that Dr Witcher watched the case very closely close-ly and he spoke to me about it several sev-eral times after I had seen It llrst but I necr pronounced it chickenpox at nny time because when I saw It I could not tell what it was K1LPACK CHILD TAKEN SICK Dr King said last evening that one of the children Jit the Kilpack residence resi-dence on F street which has been i quarantined for len days was taken I sick yesterday but the symptoms were nol sulllclently advanced to allow of a diagnosis I REPORT OF CASES CONCEALED Dr Bcatty says he has been informed on reliable authority that a number of mild cuses of smallpox exist in the city which have not been reported to the Board of Health The parties are concealing the fact of the existence of tho sickness to avoid the Inconvenience of being quarantined A thorough investigation in-vestigation will be made and those responsible re-sponsible for the cases not being reported re-ported if it is found that smallpox really exists will be severely dealt with |