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Show Block Quarantined; Smallpox Scare Philadelphia. Phlladolphlans prom-lmont prom-lmont In business, professional and society life were kopt prisoners for six and a half hours Saturday when a smallpox quarantine was thrown around the block bounded by Fifteenth Sixteenth, Spruco nnd Pino streets, which Included soveral fashonobie apartment houses, xtoro than Uo,000 .residents wero examined by fifty physicians and between 000 and 1.0O0 vaccinator. Fifty-five policemen roped oft tho area and maintained the quarantine, which reoultod from the discovery of a negro suffering from" the disease In a houso on a small thoroughfare in tho district. |