Boys Camp Quarantined In Polio Epidemic
MENTON, Ala., Aug. 1 -
Quarantined as precaution against spread of infantile paralysis, which has caused one death, some 80 youngsters at nearby Cloudmont camp were today by reported improvement of a second sufferer.
Meanwhile, the case reverberated in Florida, after 19 of the Cloudmont vacationers returned to their homes Sunday under agreement to go into isolation.
Special police stood guard before homes of 17 boys in Miami. A son of Fred S. Meyer, former Indianapolis banker, was quarantined in the family's Miami Beach residence.
At DelRay Beach, Fla., A.E. Cason was quarantined by health officials when his son returned, although Cason protested he had not seen the boy.
Dr. Carl Holler, county health officer here, asserted the camp would remain indefinitely under the ban imposed early last week after 15-year-old Preston Bird of Homestead, Fla., died and Robert Bruce Shearer, of Cincinnati, became ill. He said it would continue so at least until young Shearer showed definite signs of recovery.
The boy is at a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital. His condition was reported good.
Conditions at the camp, where the boys (ages 8 to 18) undergo rigid medical inspection twice daily, were described by Dr. Holler as "fine."
The Delta Democrat Times; Greenville, Mississippi.
August 1, 1939; Page Seven.
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MENTON, Ala., Aug. 1 -
Quarantined as precaution against spread of infantile paralysis, which has caused one death, some 80 youngsters at nearby Cloudmont camp were today by reported improvement of a second sufferer.
Meanwhile, the case reverberated in Florida, after 19 of the Cloudmont vacationers returned to their homes Sunday under agreement to go into isolation.
Special police stood guard before homes of 17 boys in Miami. A son of Fred S. Meyer, former Indianapolis banker, was quarantined in the family's Miami Beach residence.
At DelRay Beach, Fla., A.E. Cason was quarantined by health officials when his son returned, although Cason protested he had not seen the boy.
Dr. Carl Holler, county health officer here, asserted the camp would remain indefinitely under the ban imposed early last week after 15-year-old Preston Bird of Homestead, Fla., died and Robert Bruce Shearer, of Cincinnati, became ill. He said it would continue so at least until young Shearer showed definite signs of recovery.
The boy is at a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital. His condition was reported good.
Conditions at the camp, where the boys (ages 8 to 18) undergo rigid medical inspection twice daily, were described by Dr. Holler as "fine."
The Delta Democrat Times; Greenville, Mississippi.
August 1, 1939; Page Seven.
dm wms (#47395868)
______________________________________________
Note:
FOUND!!!
Burial location provided by Hank Gola (#47631563). Thanks.
Boys Camp Quarantined In Polio Epidemic
MENTON, Ala., Aug. 1 -
Quarantined as precaution against spread of infantile paralysis, which has caused one death, some 80 youngsters at nearby Cloudmont camp were today by reported improvement of a second sufferer.
Meanwhile, the case reverberated in Florida, after 19 of the Cloudmont vacationers returned to their homes Sunday under agreement to go into isolation.
Special police stood guard before homes of 17 boys in Miami. A son of Fred S. Meyer, former Indianapolis banker, was quarantined in the family's Miami Beach residence.
At DelRay Beach, Fla., A.E. Cason was quarantined by health officials when his son returned, although Cason protested he had not seen the boy.
Dr. Carl Holler, county health officer here, asserted the camp would remain indefinitely under the ban imposed early last week after 15-year-old Preston Bird of Homestead, Fla., died and Robert Bruce Shearer, of Cincinnati, became ill. He said it would continue so at least until young Shearer showed definite signs of recovery.
The boy is at a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital. His condition was reported good.
Conditions at the camp, where the boys (ages 8 to 18) undergo rigid medical inspection twice daily, were described by Dr. Holler as "fine."
The Delta Democrat Times; Greenville, Mississippi.
August 1, 1939; Page Seven.
dm wms (#47395868)
______________________________________________
Note:
FOUND!!!
Burial location provided by Hank Gola (#47631563). Thanks.
MENTON, Ala., Aug. 1 -
Quarantined as precaution against spread of infantile paralysis, which has caused one death, some 80 youngsters at nearby Cloudmont camp were today by reported improvement of a second sufferer.
Meanwhile, the case reverberated in Florida, after 19 of the Cloudmont vacationers returned to their homes Sunday under agreement to go into isolation.
Special police stood guard before homes of 17 boys in Miami. A son of Fred S. Meyer, former Indianapolis banker, was quarantined in the family's Miami Beach residence.
At DelRay Beach, Fla., A.E. Cason was quarantined by health officials when his son returned, although Cason protested he had not seen the boy.
Dr. Carl Holler, county health officer here, asserted the camp would remain indefinitely under the ban imposed early last week after 15-year-old Preston Bird of Homestead, Fla., died and Robert Bruce Shearer, of Cincinnati, became ill. He said it would continue so at least until young Shearer showed definite signs of recovery.
The boy is at a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital. His condition was reported good.
Conditions at the camp, where the boys (ages 8 to 18) undergo rigid medical inspection twice daily, were described by Dr. Holler as "fine."
The Delta Democrat Times; Greenville, Mississippi.
August 1, 1939; Page Seven.
dm wms (#47395868)
______________________________________________
Note:
FOUND!!!
Burial location provided by Hank Gola (#47631563). Thanks.
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