Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-04
IHursdnn. .Rpril 26.

Thursday, .lpril &c.
a DISEASED person was yesterday sent 10
the family residence of DR.. Black, of this
cry IN his absence. II is said the disease
under which the unfortunate person was suf-
terlng is contagious. The family of Mr..
Black were prejudiced in their health by this
lmprudent conduct on the part of the person
or persons advising his conveyance thiih-
eT.
The place at which The man was taken
sick was the proper one for him TO remain
until he got well, and the proper place 10
invite medical aid-oiherwise, send him 10 a
hospital, not 10 the residence of a private
family. 1t is alleged as an excuse for send
inc The unfortunate person alluded 10 above,
10 the residence Of DR.. Black, that the latter
belonged 10 the Sanitary Board. This, we
are told by high authority, is false. The
Doctor having promptly declined the honor
OF an appointment rendered 10 him. But
even If this were true, and If he had held
such a station, what excuse would that be
for endangering the health of his family, and
prejudicing the lives of the public by cariing
him through the %streetsl
The unfortunate individual alluded to a.
bove, was taken into the house of DR.. PEN
niman for medical treatment. We are in
formed that he died about 8 o'clock last eve.
ming.
The above article appeared as editorial
both in the " Commercial Journal " and the
Pittsburgh Saturday V%isiter,'' so we can
not say 10 which paper belongs its paternity.
The story it tells is nothing very striking;
its most prominent feature being the danger
to which the public was exposed by %carting
the diseased person. through the streets.
The facts Of the case, as we learn from relia-
BILE sources, are simply these.
A raftsman from the interior Of Pennsyl-
vania, who had been with his lumber to Gin
cinnaii, on his return took passage on the
steamer Brilliant, and VIII IN near Pittsburgh
was attacked by The Cholera. The captain
of the boat did all he could rr his comfort,
and on arriving at Pittsburgh sent for one or
two Of his friends who were attached to a
lumber yard in that city. The man was sirk
and a stranger and desired a shelter and
medical attendance, for both of which he
was able to pay. A carriage was called for,
but none could he procured. A furniture car
was at length obtained and the sick man pla-
ced in it. lie was taken 10 a public house,
but was refused admission; application was
made at another, bat with no better success;
he was then carried to the Office of tie
Guardians Of the Poor, but The poor fellow
found they were no guardians fr him tie
Guardians recommended him to 90 to the
nrivata rpsidpuca nT n nhvsio;an rbo uraS
mistakenly supposed to be Chairman of the
Sanitary Committee, and admiltance was de-
MED him there. Thus was this sick stran-
ger treated in the christian city of Pittsburgh!
His disease was Of a nature that required
immediate, active treatment; but instead Of
receiving il, he was carted about the streets
from Ten o'clock in The morning until screen
al might, suffering meanwhile the most ex-
cruciating agony. He was finally received
into the house Of DR.. Penniman, and died
an hour afterward. Before the DR.. rendered
him his hospitality, we understand that an
Irish woman, whose husband had gone TO
California, offered the sick man a bed be-
meath her roof. Her name is Elizabeth
Ki~mmell-honor 10 her womanhood and her
Irish heart but what can be said of the hu-
manity of those who left him to suffer I'M
cared for-to feel that he was an ouicast
from the sympathy Of those who call them
selves men
We trust that the "Journal" and Visit
err will inform their readers from time to
time, whether the diseased person" did so
very much prejudice The lives of The public
by being carted through the streets.