I76 HISTORICAL SKETCH 0F PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jenkins was appointed medical superintendent, with a staff of 
     
     attendants under his charge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To this isolated fabric, all patients on showing the slightest 
     
     symptom of the disease were removed, their former residence 
     
     being fumigated and thoroughly disinfected, while every effort 
     
     was put forth to confine the disease to the houses under 
     
     quarantine. But notwithstanding, the number of cases increased ; 
     
     while in the cemetery shovel and pick were daily employed, 
     
     graves opened and closed to the number of fifty—six; that of 
     
     Mr. Pickard, alluded to at the commencement, being among 
     
     the first to receive its victim. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During this period of anxiety, the disease had made its way 
     
     to several parts. In the east, Dr. McIntyre was in attendance. 
     
     and in the north, Dr. McNeill had several cases. The services 
     
     of Dr. Warburton had also been engaged for the city during the 
     
     period of the epidemic. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 13th November, the quarantine flag first made its 
     
     appearance in front of a dwelling, and was soon followed by a 
     
     number of others, but by the Ist January, 1886, the number of 
     
     flags so displayed was fast decreasing. The small-pox hospital, 
     
     too, had halfits living inmates discharged; itwas then thoroughly 
     
     disinfected, while within the city during January the last 
     
     quarantine flag was shortly after removed from its position-— 
     
     and we trust forever. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To the Mayor, Henry Beer, Esq., Chairman ; Thomas Morris, 
     
     James Curtis, John Kelly, H. C. Douse, Edward Davy, S. W. 
     
     Crabbe, Samuel McRae, Horace Haszard, Alex. Horne, 'I‘hos. 
     
     A. McLean, Councillors; and the medical profession, belong 
     
     the kind consideration of the community. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the evening of the zrst December last, 1885, the city for 
     
     the first time was beautifully illuminated by electric light, 
     
     emitted from a luminous body enclosed within glass spherical 
     
     vessels, and placed at various corners of the streets some twenty 
     
     feet above the sidewalks. Many of the principal stores of the 
     
     town also adopted the same description of light, it being a 
     
     convenient means of brilliancy, throwing its rays into all quarters 
     
     of the establishment. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Salvation Army Church, situated on Upper Great George 
     
     Street, was erected in 1880. It is a neat little edifice and will 
     
     seat about five hundred persons. “ Here comrades have seen