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--THE NEW EXIC)HEALEN AND SOC IALSERVICES DPARTMT SAYS THAT PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH IN NORThEAST NEWMEXICO HAS BEEN QUARANTINED BECAUSE OF THE DEATHOF A YOUNG BOY SCOUT. IT SAYS THE DEATH YESTERDAY MAY HAVE RESULTED FROM A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, j THERE ARE ABOUT 10,000 SCOUTS AND SCOUTLEADERSAT TH CAN DIED-WHLE E CAAMPFT DIED WHILE NA.}EPR ELI I ARy PQRT49 INDICATED DEATH WAS DUE TO A BRAIN HEMORPHAGE. L Tf1E DIETRR/IE DIVISIOM-t TE HEAL TH AND SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT DR. BRUCE STORRS SAID AFTER PN AUTOPSY HAD BEEN PERFOrMED PRELINIMARY REPORTS INDICATE DEATH MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUSE BY A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, "
HE ADDED: 'TESTS ARE BEING UN TO ThY TO ASCERTAI' tCHAT IT IS, SO THAT APPROPRIATE PROPHYLACTIC EASES MIGHT BE TAKEN. R. STORRS SAID NOBODY WILL BE ADMITTED, AND NOBODY WILL B ALLOWED. TO LEAVE THE CAMP UNTIL HEALTH AUTHORITIES GET MORE DATA ON THE NATURE THE ILLNESS THICH CAUSED THE MORRIS EY'S DEATH. DR. STORRS DECLINED TO IDENTIFY THE COMNUNICABLE DISEASE WHICH IS INDICA TED, CC924PED 7
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Ranch quarantined over murder],
script,
August 7, 1970, 10:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1327127/m1/1/:
accessed July 1, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.