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Show PUBLIC GROWS ORE; CAREFUL That the general public ls becoming more careful in making speedy reports re-ports of all cases of contagious disease dis-ease is the opinion of Sanitary Inspector In-spector Moroni Poulter. who yesterday yester-day announced that his office had been called hurriedly at 7:J0 o'clock In the morning by i scared citizen who believed his neighbors to have developed throe cases of smallpox. Unable to get any definite details from the man sending in tho Infornm- tlon, Mr..Poultcr had a phvslelnn call on tho family said to be afflicted with the dread disease, only to uiscover that there was nothing worse the matter mat-ter with tho Blck ones than a slight taBb and'a.7bad"Bcarey 'Mr. Poulter 'eafd! yesterday that oh Monday he and . his .assistant had visited .In all t.wenty-seven families answering an-swering report i M contagious disease, finding out of that number but three cases of German measles. An epidemic epi-demic of this disease seems to have tilruck the city.; according to Mr. Poulter, but as the affliction is hard- ly ever fatal, no apprehension Is being be-ing felt. German measles. Mr. Poulter Poul-ter says, differs from the common variety only In effect, the German disease dis-ease sometimes curing Itself and disappearing dis-appearing within ten hours after the patient is taken 111 Yesterday thirteen cases of this disease dis-ease were quarantined In the cltv, but It Is the opinion of the sanitary Inspector In-spector that the quarantine will be lifted in most cases in a few days, as reports reached his office as early as last night to the efTect that all traces of the disease had already disappeared disap-peared in some Instances. Slnco tho recent epidemics of contagious and ' severe disease in the towns adjacent to this city,-Mr, Poulter says, peopbi have developed mora watchful methods, meth-ods, calling up his office on the ellght-est ellght-est sign of n rash. While this causes some Utile additional work, apparently, apparent-ly, in reality It saves the sanitary Inspector In-spector and his assistants and the city a great deal of time and money In the long run, as dangerous cases can be caught In time before others arc affected. |