VACCINATIONS AT A DINNER.
BUTLER WITII SMALLPOX. Tho sudden illness of Mr. "William Walker, butler to Mr. Chnrlo:nnsno Tower, the former American Ambassador in Berlin, has, Says a repent New York paper, had a sequel which is unique in the social annals of Philadelphia. The ex-Ambassador, with his wife and son, was cute.rl inning iifteoii ladies ami gentlemen to dinner when ho wits runs up on tho telephone ami informed that as the disease from whieh the butler was sufi'eriii}; had boon discuvereil to bs smallpox, it was iicce-sary for flic entire household to bo vaccinated. Mr. Tower wns annoyed, and refused. Kenwitedly tho telephone bell rang. Finally Dr. A. A. Cairns sent. Dr. Sleehner, one of his assistants, to the house, \vi(h orders to vaccinate all Hin people in it. Mr. Tower was exlremely distressed at the demand made , on his gucsls. They, no escape from Ilio onlcal, huiK'niiwly submitted to 11, baring tlieir arms lo tlm Board of Health necdl", whieh spared neither servants, master, nor
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 8
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168VACCINATIONS AT A DINNER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 8
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