Show PRISONERS GETTING AILMENTS Work of Improving the Boulevard Causing an Unprecedented Demand De-mand for Medical Attendance If the johlcc of City Physician has ever been a sinecure In the past It will nol be one In ihc future No one doubts but that the city jail is an unhealthy un-healthy place where It would bo considered con-sidered almost a crime to keep even animals Yet there have been few if any calls for treatment from the prisoners unless for some ailment contracted con-tracted prior to their entering its blue1 washed halls But there is a change coming and it is coming pretty soon The microbe that Is about to spread disease among the hoboes Is commonly common-ly known as work There will be numerous calls for Dr King from now on This san in evidence yesterday Although but the second day since the prisoners were made to work there were several when the time came logo lo-go out yesterday morning who wanted to report as being on the sick list There appeared to bo nothing serious tIne mutter however as they still had their appetites with them so no attention atten-tion was paId to their complaints save one That was Henry Ward a young fellow who Is serving out a thlrlyday Sentence for vagrancy It was noticed while he was at work on tho boulevard on Tuesday that Ward seemed to have acquired a very large slice of that tired feeling which is sum posed to be floating around at this season sea-son of the year and which Is free to all So yesterday morning Ward made up his mind that he would stay In Jail and therefore complained of a sprained arm The arm was slightly inflamed but there was no evidence of u sprain and n was later discovered that he had stuck a pin In Ills arm with the idea that ho could thus escape work An examination of the alleged Injured member was made by the police however how-ever and at the noon hour Ward was told he might either Join his comrades on the boulevard or geek the seclusion that the sweatbox grants He elected the latter W E Lynn who is serving fifty days for vagrancy also grew tired of his Job yesterday and concluded lo test the sprinting quail lieu of the guards and therefore made a bolt down the j canyon He was overtaken In short order however and It Is Just possible that I ho will wear an Oregon boot for the balance of his term besides losing los-ing his copper not that he Is liable lo run away again but simply as a horrible hor-rible example to others who may bo nossessed of the same sporty proclivities proclivi-ties |