County Board of Health, certifying that the person has been recently successfully vaccinated, or has had and is entirely recovered from smallpox; forbids any person with smallpox, or from a house where smallpox exists, to come upon or near any public street or highway until every person in said house is well and cleansed, and the house disinfected, and an official permit of release given; it is ordered that every house where smallpox exists be officially flagged, and that this flag shall remain until officially removed, and that no one enter such premises except physicians and designated attendants; and it is further ordered that every person in said town who has not had smallpox be vaccinated or re-vaccinated within the next forty-eight hours. All other houses in Union county where smallpox exists are also hereby placed in quarantine and the above precautions are ordered to be enforced as to each of them and their inmates. Any violation of this proclamation and contained regulations will subject the offender to the pains and penalties of law, and the health and other officials of Union and adjoining counties are authorized and requested to enforce them. By order of the Board: J. M. MATHEWS, M. D., President. J. N. McCORMACK, M. D., Secretary. The Secretary was instructed to issue a similar quarantine against the whole of Union county, and order all trains to run through the county at not less than ten miles an hour, without making a stop, unless the fiscal authorities of the county make provision for a pest-house and for stamping out smallpox in the county within the next forty-eight hours. Immediately upon the announcement and posting of the quarantine notices, a meeting of the fiscal court was called. A large and commodious hotel at a nearby mineral springs was purchased for an eruptive hospital, and prompt and effective steps were taken to stamp out the disease. The houses were so universally and thoroughly saturated with the in fection in Uniontown that time and heroic measures were nec essary to secure satisfactory disinfection, but an absolute and rigidly enforced quarantine soon brought all to realize the situation and the efforts to eradicate the disease received the cordial support of both the authorities and people. The last time this quarantine power was exercised was in Greenup coun |