Show I ARMED ARilD OFFICERS PATROL POOL CHICAGO SMALLPOX SM AREA Outbreak of Seventy-four Seventy Cases of Disease Impels Prompt Action of Health Department Department Department De De- De- De CHICAGO Dec Dee 31 one One hundred armed guards were patrolling the south half of east Chicago to enforce enforce enforce en en- force quarantine established following following follow fonow- ing the outbreak of seventy-four seventy cases of small smallpox pOL i The stricken portion of the city Is Js inhabited by about foreign born who work In the great steel mills Five cases of the disease have been discovered discovered ered in Hammond Ind 2nd another cen cen- ter Dr J. J A. A Teegarden health commIssioner commissioner commissioner commis commIs- of East Hast Chicago and authorities of ot Hammond are to confer today on the advisability of shutting down the mills until the epidemic is checked Dr Teegarden following discovery ery of the disease called nurses and doctors from Hammond Gary and Indiana Harbor who are now battling with the epidemic East Chicago is seventeen miles from the city limits of Chicago and just over the Indiana line Une It has a population of |