RUSH FOR VACCINATION

Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1947, Page 5

RUSH FOR VACCINATION

Received Atonday, 7.45 p.m. NEW YORK, April 18. A fourth case of sniallpox was. reported iu Millbrook, New York State, tonight. The outbreak at Alillbrooit, which is of the viruleu't type which has already elaimed two liyes in New Yora Oity, caUsed a nefir paiiic in the viliage. Thi'ee cases already in Millbrook -are a young bov who had come from hospitai 'in Kew- York Gity, a two-year-old . gifi and a 60-vear-old nun. There was a I'usli of viliage residents and fai'mers from the surrouiiding area to be vaccinated immediately tnc cases Were repol'ted and State troopenWfere called out to lceep order whiie ilireb doetors worked at a feverish pactto vaccinale 2000 persons. The State Health Department rushed additiona vacci nfe to the area and arranged ti. )pen three elinies for school children, i'he district health oflicer reported.. that none of tlfe Alilllirook victnus was in ifnmediate danger. Meanwhile in England, police imme dlatbiv cordoned a ^cllntluJrpe, Lincoln shire, hoteJ when tli'e town's medica utfieer reported that-' a inan suffenng from Smallpox was in the bar. The police rounded up 70 customers in tno bar and thbv were all- vaccinated. The itvedleal offlcer had prevtously warneu this man not to itjdyla his lodgingliouse wlierC there Were six-mther cases. \ . -M„