Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-01-25 | Page 16 | Escapes with a Case of Smallpox

ESCAPES WITH A CASE OF SMALLPOX Becoming tired of form retirement in the pesthouse where he bad been! Placed since it was discovered ho i , had smallpox. Edwin Boyd left the! place last night at 11 o'clock while the other patients and the nurse were, asleep, and has not been apprehend-I ! ed Boyd has been at the isolation hos- pifal for 11 days and has reached the I stage of the disease that is considered consid-ered most contagious The author -of nearby cities have been notified noti-fied ol his escape from quarantine. Boyd is a pipe fitter and has ex- pressed his dislike of the confinement confine-ment while he is able to secure a I job at good wages Several times he has told other patients that he in- I tended to sneak away over the hills I some night, but hiB statements were thought to be jests He went to bed about 10 o'clock last night and was not in the building this morning when j the nurse, George Green, arose. The patient had been working at Clearfield when he came to Ogden to consult Ur R S Joyec The man was found to be suffering of smallpox, small-pox, and much against his will was taken to the pesthouse by Health Of- : ficer Shorten.