PEOPLE COMPLAIN

Of the Guards at a Quarantined House
-Enumerator Alarmed.

People living in the neighborhood of 807 South New Jersey street, where there is a case of smallpox, have made complaint that the guards placed at the house have not attended to their duties, and instead of watching the house to prevent people entering or the inmates from leaving have spent most of their time in neighboring grocery stores. Secretary Clark of the Board of Health said last night that he had heard no complaint but he would investigate the matter to-day. He said he selected good officers to watch the house and did not believe they would neglect their duty.

Yesterday afternoon one of the school census enumerators called at the office of the Board of Health, very much agitated, because he had stopped at the house on 1220 South Senate avenue, not knowing there was smallpox in the family. He was told to be vaccinated at once. No new cases of smallpox were reported to the Board of Health yesterday.

“People Complain,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 13 April 1900, p. 8, col. 3; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 3 February 2015).