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Show SMALLPOX IN CITY JAIL Yesterday was the day for John Riley to "break out" of jail, but instead in-stead of doing so, he "broke out" with I smallpox- On February 2?.. John pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness drunk-enness and was sentenced to pay a fine of $3 to go to Jail for five d.ivs. He went to Jail During the Inst few days he has complained of being 111, and yesterday nfternon he fy.; so poorly that the city phjslcian was cnlle 1. John had n rash on his face and Dr. Ries Immediately pronounced the ailment smallr.o. This set the police officers, to think-Ir.g. think-Ir.g. and consternation for awhile, prevailed. pre-vailed. Tho physician gave an order that every Inmate of the bastlle should ,be held without bail, quarantined quaran-tined in tho jail null! such a time as the dlsen.ee coulj be eradicated from the premise?. The man coij'd not say where he contracted the dispose, but he had It In a well defined form Thi morning the afillrrted man was sent to lle post house south of the ey and placed in charge of a nurse. The sanltury inspector was callel and he proceeded to "fumigate" the Jill. Tbe building was soon Olied with for-maldehde for-maldehde and sulphur fumcR, the bedding In the entlr? place was saturated satu-rated with disinfectants and the men of tbe jail, some f!2. were given a bath In a so'utlon of bichloride of lime. After this the men were all vaccinated. Resides the regular time servers In the J.Tll luff night, there were ahout forty lodgers and loafers who occupied occu-pied quarters. The h?alth officers state that the entire ".2 men will have j to remain at the Ja'l for at least 14 days and. if at the end of that time new cases of smallpox develop, th?re la no telling bow long th4? quarantine will be kept up. It Is stated by the physicians, however. I hat after the thorough futnlgat'on of the premises todav. parties placed under arrest may be i.ent to jH without danger of j becoming infected vlih the disease, excepi thy should be et.popcd to a c?e at a time when I'. Is breaking j ot. . . j Many cf the "timers" In (lie lail j hailed the quarantine with console., i able delight nnti they were navicert ( that It would noi proven4, them going j oui on ihe regular dally routine of work. Until this information was given tbeni they were ece?diDt;lv j happy, and looked forward to a rest i of two weeks. bi:l became rn'lvr J cresifp.l'.en when th? ' facts wer-1 wer-1 newn. The-, hive been adv'sed that ! they will he ncnullv better r.ff in the open air doln a little work than In the cell w:b roth'ng to do. Dr. Pi's Is a buy womnn this after-non after-non attend'ng to the vaccination of the occupants of the jail. It will oc euny the time of the doctor rros of . the afternoon. She states that It Is very Hkeh- that no other caes win , develo;). owirg to th far". thrU the I matter' of reinfecting and fum'caMug and also vaccination was attended to j at an e.rly period. Rllev Is net verv . pick, but Dr. PJs savs bis case Is not j the mildest that is known. i |