Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-04-22
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ABUSE OF THE LATE POOR DIRECTORS AND
PRESENT PHYSICIAN.

ABUSE OF THE LATE POOR DIRECTORS AND
PRESENT PHYSICIAN.
Mr.. Editor-EVer since the passage of the
law ousting the Directors of the Poor from
Office because they would not submit to what
the people generally consider an extortionate
demand on the part of the medical profession,
writer in paper which delights in an inde-
pendent motto, has been putting words togeth-
or senseless in their meaning and difficult to
be understood, excepting an occasional slur
at the honesty and capacity of John Cubbison
and John Peachey, two of the late directors
and at DR.. Hoover the present physician.
These directors, it will be borne in mind,
were elected for the express purpose of intro
ducing reform into the Poor House, which
had been of late years grossly mismanaged,
and while endeaeoring to carry out their ideas
Of reform, the medical gentlemen of this bor-
S&gh unwisely entered into combination
largely to increase their charges. They may
have been getting less than was justly their
due, but with hundreds of others | think that
at a time of financial difficulties in its man
agement and when the directors were making
efforts to introduce system to bring the ex-
penses into proper bounds was not the proper
time for yielding to demand by the doctors
that might have increased the medical charges
annum. This estimate | have heard was Civ.
ell by one of the physicians who was a party
to that combination, so that the taxpayers, as
we'll as the poor men who are now called upon
by Justice" alias Dr. $50 Sawleg can see
how disinterested the gentleman is in crying
Give give !" The directors were right in
resisting such q demand at this time, and
would have been false to their position and
to the taxpayers had they submitted. For
this they were ousted, by law got up in Sc.
crecy. and pushed through the Legislature by
Dr. Bower and others with indecent haste,
and signed by Gsv. Packer at time when
remonstrances were being rapidly signed in
all parts of the county. The functions of the
directors having ceased, the County Commits
sloners did not make change, and therefore
ln-"Justlce" continues his laeyolent thrusts
at the directors and Dir. Hoover. The direc-
tors will hardly feel as bad at these thrusts as
they would were they to swallow some of
Justices" pills and as for the young ply
sician who now has charge of the poor, it is
no more than fair to await the end Of his year
and see how many he will kill or cure' ac-
cording to law and physic; how many legs he
will saw off how many arms chop off ct Get
era and so forth, before we condemn him. By
comparing his with Justices" administra.
"iIi"nS tHc pooI, we sudii tHeH De eHa-
bled to decide even when doctors disagree"
Should this assassin ike conduct be contin-
ued of attacking these gentlemen, dose of
JUSTICE to the author may be called forth, the
materials for which can be picked up ten
times over. To the editor | would observe
that it may do very well to swell up in indie
pendeace in denOuncing m unguarded or half
joking remark of clerk in private conversa-
tioA, but that it comports more with indepen-
dence and propriety to refuse insertions to at
tacks where malice prepense is so self evident
AN OLD STUDENT.