CASE OF SMALLPOX

The Cause of a Call for a Special
Council Meeting.

President Crall, of the City Council, ordered a special meeting of the Council for Friday night to make up the ordinance appropriating $1,000 to the City board of Health, to be used for a contagious disease fund. This sudden action was necessary as a new case of small pox was discovered in the city yesterday and reported to the Board of Health. Charles J. Durand, a paper-hanger, living at 1125 Nelson street, is the patient, and he lives with his wife at that number. He has not been in contact with anyone having the disease and the Board of Health is at a loss to account for his affliction. Durand will be removed to the contagious disease pavilion at the City Hospital and his home will be quarantined.

“Case of Smallpox,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 5 April 1900, p. 8, col. 4; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 3 February 2015).