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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 07, 1891
Page
2
Notice required by householders when a house occupant shows a contagious disease and penalties for failing to disclose. Provisions include duties of board of health officials and penalties up to fifty dollars, plus disinfection duties for owners and drivers of public conveyances.
The North side mail was dispatched Thursday and the South mail arrived Wednesday with a return closing yesterday. Several new diphtheria cases appear in town, two or three of which are fatal. Local clubs and temperance society announce upcoming meetings, and Dr. Lett earns praise for his successful diphtheria treatment during a protracted town visit.
On Wednesday morning at the lower premises of Messrs J Munn & Co a serious accident occurred on board the stranguard. William Stevenson suffered a broken leg and other injuries when the rope clipping the winch barrel caught him. He was conveyed home with doctors Allan and Martin in attendance. The fractures were set and he is progressing favorably.
The Society of United Fishermen Lodge No. 13 held a belated February anniversary in fair weather. Rev R Temple preached on a fourfold lesson from nature. festivities featured songs, dialogues, and student performances with prize distributions for reading spelling grammar geography and arithmetic.
On Wednesday last UO.F. anniversary events began with a procession from the Lodge led by the fife and drum band to St Andrew's Church for a sermon by Rev. W. C. White. The party then visited the Canal and J Dutler's premises before returning for a large supper and dancing that continued into the early hours.
At Musgrave Harbor a Christmas Eve school gathering showcased day scholars to parents and friends. The schoolhouse served as the treat venue with recitations dialogues and rounds performed by eleven local boys and girls amid light attendance and inclement weather.
The city reports a marked decline in diphtheria cases with the weak and the afflicted showing improvement. Officials blame past neglect for outbreaks and urge continued sanitary efforts to prevent a resurgent epidemic. Halifax also faces a fresh diphtheria outbreak despite health actions.
Advices from New Guinea report the head hunting Puyaree tribe raiding a village, killing 40 inhabitants and looting many homes. The tribe threatens nearby villages near the government post under Magistrate Cameron who oversees the Western district. An armed constabulary force is en route to aid Cameron, who is ordered to act defensively.
John Murphy of West Water Street died last night on the steamer International while coal was being discharged at M Morey & Co. He fell from a hatch skid about eleven thirty, plunging thirty feet to the hold. Dr. Harvey declared him dead. Murphy, a native of Placentia Bay, left a widow and one child. neighbors urge safety trails around discharging skids and nighttime precautions.
A Montreal despatch notes Dr. Roddick, famed surgeon, conducting early Canadian experiments with De Koch’s lymph at General Hospital. One lymph sample was tested on two lupus patients, both elderly, with the outcome not yet known, while no consumptives were treated.
Special dispatch reports W J Gould serving a 10 year embezzlement sentence at Fost National Bank and allegedly acting as de facto warden at Thomaston prison. He controls bills salaries and commissary, directs staff and even prepares prison reports, while not confined in a cell and holding multiple roles.
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