Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-26
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CITY COISCl!.
A regular sem. monthly meeting Of the City
Conncii WA. held last night IN the,r uua chain
49,. ~ rho Marker House building.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Dr johnson called attention 10 the large
amount of the bills for supplies furnished The
AIMS House, He thought the establishment,
a. II sloud, useless expenditure He had thu
utmost c,utdcucc in the Keeper Of thrt i SIT
tuition bat thought the Committee on Poor
should cali 4 bait III this matter and investigate
tLc,e expenditures lna Aiin' IL >us; Should
be sit sustaining and could be made 20 h.;
thought. The house was 80 d@pTcc afcd ana
dcmoralized that indiscn; persons " lul'i not 90
there We would have t. curtal our expenses.
he said. or else tx the paope at the rate ii
three per ct. for the con.ug year.
Other bills tor supplies TO the poor W~Fe
brought in, when.
Mr.. Scaton sad lie bad noticed that ali
the business thar shou ! property cone b"ior2
the Com mlt!e2 on the Ioor was t!ausacteo III
some round about way, ana not brought ie.u
larry before me con'ui'''ce. nc vas Ha''Shc''
that 10 other cJnnittcc had b9eu treated Is
had this. he chairman iild ignored inc eA
lStcnce OF some 81 the n'rhlDstS o' 'ii'' cyln-
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were held, and he protested asalus' Sach c'o-
duet. :, e +, =
Mr. Marker called up ne pe'l'i'n ~ - D.
JaHray lol Icuuc'i'n ~ '"At'''"'.
not4lng OF the ma:tcr iIl,'se l. Dut III OcIle'e'i
IN the right OF pc1i'ioI' mat every man III u'u
be heard Inc pcLti'n was reao anu t''c ac''n
OF the lower b'ar1 was c }, CURED n ,.;u
DR.. johnson ca,leu up us lcsou''o'i asN',s
permission Of the Legislature 70 oorro" :-''oo0
to repair inc streets III teSo'u''on' 'i'e'
marks from It's original II, Was au 'l,t'e. :,
| y bill 10 prevent the spread Of tlle 'ual poA
was read.
! Col treach thought the Dill rs rca" ""u1
not effect the OBJECT III Vic"' anu moved d.
substitute pll lor compulsory 'acGiuatlo''' ilj
sau II waSs'ip! p'i' 'h1' I ii oIien pL;';.
III I'M, :, Doar" t".ce oI'o'c. le u'u n't ,n''H
tue OH co!ilus ll"ln tlc o'hcl '9'' " 'u'o
feet the OBJECT III view. or lnle1a alJ W
ject at al. Compulsory vaccination Mad been
adopted IN most OF the large cites Ia
Baitluorc Tor Instance, the elIlZ MS agreeing
with great unanlml'y as to the Wisdom OF the
plan, which huu the sanction OF the oou'tS VI
the above city.
Dr. johnson SAID that he DIT not propose 10
discuss questions OF medicine With pHiS,nS WGo
were not educated III medicine; 1t Would give
hun an unfair advantage.
Crl. French said that he bad probably dc
voted as much attention to the subject As any
one, AM WIS as well qualified To judge OF the
matter
Dr. johnson took the floor in an elaborate
discussion of the nature and effects Of smallpox
and of the merits Of the respective bills He
advocated the plan Of coni ing the disease in
as smaII quarters as possible contracting the
focus of the conagou,' Ii was of more i'm
portance t. get the disease out t'the way than
to enter into the practice of vaccination "a
measure of doubtful utility lie discussed the
! theory of the disease, and without vanity, could
| saw that he had arrested it, and would have
| had If. by this time, extinct. had ii Dot been
! far the oHicous interference uf outside phvsc.-
ans. who had sprea the disease, caused death,
and and peutraIized the good chat he had done.
Mr. Scaton thought it waste of time to pass
law, when, according to the confession Of the
gentleman who had been advocating h: bill,
it could not be enforced, and cuqulrcd how pco-
pie could be moved into the second or third
stories of their houses when they might have
but one story to thcm?
COL French thought tina: vaccination was
presumed IN all the laws 90 the subject passed
everywhere. lie read the bill, exposing its
talIacics and showing that it continued nothing
that the common sense OF tue people would Eot
suggest without law. This bill also required
utter impossl''llltles OF the Superintendent Ut
the Police. As to vaccinations the uni ed Voice
of the civilized world bore testimony to rs
value as preventive Of smallpox. The bill
proposed was wholly ineffective to eradicate or
prevent the spread Of the disease that the de-
tails mentioned in the bill were such rs woull
be adopted 10 cases where the smallpox cxl sted
and that to require the Superintendent OF 20
lice to enforce this act from its passage was to
require Of him what he could not perform Col.
+. opposed the bill on the further ground that
it made no provision for vaccination, which all
other communities, and the whole civilized
world regarded as the best means Tor prevent
ing the spread OF the disease, anu Tor erauicat-
log It, ", discovered. r., il,
DR.. johnson sad that CGl. French Kne"
nothing at al! about the smallpox; sou could Ut
get hum within halt nile OF case. Ii he
lDr. ~ did not know what was to be Known