Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-27
..rrismus Nascenttum.,

port Tor the week ending FEBRUARY I'D, snow
ing 3SS nulsances abated, II causes of death
investigated, buTials at public expense. 50
tons of garbage removed, Al dead animals re-
moved, and the usualrepOrtof concentrations
OF unwhOlesOme food.
HOW THE Fun COMMENCED.
DIR: Verdi asked the secretary if the reports
on the subject of trismus nascentium had
been printed in pamphlet form, as directed?
Before the secretary could reply Dr.. Bliss,
rising, said that he was responsible for the
reports not being printed and not the secre-
had been sandwiched in between the reports
of the president and Judge Warden, and he
didn't propose to have it that way and had
taken the liberty to stop them.
DrVerdi replied that they had been ordered
TO be printed in the order OF their reading;
that the majority report would ordinarily and
nOrity would follow. He called Mr.. Marbury
10 the chair, when he proceeded to handle DR..
Bliss without gloves in defence of his action,
old fashioned Board of Health debating = :.
ciety followed. all getting heated and red IN
the face. Mr.. Marbury called to order, an 1 rs
his authority was not needed
JUDGE WARDEN CALLED ORDER! o'xDERn
ORDERH!
After considerable Sparring thinrks aradu.
ally simmered down, and DR.. Cox 4nk IN the
cudge and from notes which he h Il. Wret,ar sM1
pitched into the president of the ynard and the
dogma OF trismus nascentium pretty lively
He said it was well to refresh their memories
as TO the history OF the SOM tyshat a nam0lons
position they occupied befOr efbe medical NH
lie. They had suddenly di srovereG a diseaSa
here OF extreme S rarity in temperate ATTITUDES,
and certainly not recognized as a frequent dis
order in the District OF Columbia Surprise
at comparatively -GnknoWn malady had
merged into absolute. establishment when in a
ShOlt time the aggr 1gate revealed hundreds of
cases. The sedatf; elders of the medical pro-
teSslon We're startled out of their usual pro
priety and the general public had been dis
tufDed at the abrupt appearance in our order
ly community of a disorder bearing
SUCH AN AWFUL AND UNHEARD OF TITLE.
Inc tmid imagined all sorts of hOrrOrS-Wav-
laid the innocent members of the board. de
mandlng what sort OF monster had been i'm
ported, until the apprehension became serious
that the shock incident to the unhearlded ar.
TVal Oh trlSlnuS neOnatOrlm might develop
IriSmus auditorium, malady which would
prove fatal 10 social gOSSiperS. The board of
health becoming somewhat nervous at the cool
manner by which the medical sanitary inspec-
tor Numbered into their ears. day after tiay.
fresh cases Of this fearful disorder, prudentiy
suoStltuted Tor while '.infantile convulsiOns"
III the weekly statement instead of "trismus
nascentium,' as reported.
AT length the president of the board made
motion that DR.: Stewart should be invited to
appear before the board and explain his rea.
the large Increase OF a disease so little under
stood Dr. Bliss had offered a substitute reso-
luton that 4 committee of three be appointed
to investigate and report.
LAW VS. MEDICINE.
lhlS was adopted, and by the usual parlia-
mentary, ruling and courtesy DR.. Bliss, the
III
place on the committee: but the pres
ident very. cOmplacently announced him
sell as chairman, and added Dr.. Bliss and
Judge Warden. The subject to be reported
upon was of a strictly medical nature which
no other than physicians could determine, yet
he the speaker the sole surviving ESculapian
member, was LETT of the committee and gen-
tenan who. IN his profession, has deServedly
canned and will long enjoy an enviable rep
utatl0n, but who, nevertheless, is not an expert
III the nature and pathology of diseases, put
on. He did not al Jude 10 this by way of com
plant. accustomed as he was to such courte-
sizes tut as something peculiar, and as a part
OF the history OF the investigation. How
startled would that non medical member OF
the committee not have been to observe him.
the speaker a doctor of medicine, placed on
committee calling for Il decision of intricate
principles embraced in BlackStOne's Common
tarlcs, to the exclusion of so eminent iuriSt
as hlmSeif,-he 60 who knew infinitely less of
law than the Judge does of physic.
Referring TO the report of DR.. Verdi, he said
that it waS replete with material induStriOusly
gathered from all sources accessible. They
scIibed by the medical sanitary inspector,
which has as much TO do with the question as
have the pdralaXeS of the moon.
THE MEDICAL SANITARY INSPECTOR.
Prior to the discovery of the medical SAM
tary inspector, he said we had corps of high
y INTELLIGENT physicians appointed to attend
the destitute poor, including this very class of
cases. mSanitary conditions of bad air and
filthy SURROUNDINGS were worse then than now
and yet how many cases were reported, and
covered this malady i'll their practice: Is it
not remarkable that it should have been re-
| served Tor the sanitary inspector within his
contracted sphere of duty to disclose this
! startling per centage of disease so infrequent
! in this locality? And what's the evidences on
which he relies: Three autOpsies, two anti
| mOrtem examinations, conducted by the pres
/ ident and sanitary inspector. and twelve cases
| based OH the statements of the ignorant sur
| yivoiS of the dead. AT. the conclusion he
! moved the substitution of the report offered
that he nd re
| adoption As the sense OF the board. During
the delivery OF his remarks the doctor was
! frequently interrupted by points of order and
| lively tits between all the members, but no
| blows were struck.
Judge Warden, not liking the aluSiOn made
| TO him in the doctors remarks commenced TO
| say something, but was evidently not prepared
| To tackle such 4 mass of medical lore, and will
! occupy the floor at the next meeting on the
a bsOrbing subject of trismus, etc.
DEEDS IN FEE have been flied as follows
r.. g. Campbell, trustee, to J. w. Campbell,
W. SHo E,s s9a So g + aid C. S g
| So. l93 George A. Monroe to r III. G. Todd.
&, sub g, lot 10, So: 643; j. G. Armes to
k sofann2 tams OF 10 subs 50 to q? s. M
| to S. 4. Van Derlip, $50, sub s. 50. 335. s. A.
Van Der,ip to Mitchell PRICE, ss79, same prop,
! j. s'l. 36S. b. H. Warner ct al, trustees, to
knGch Burgess, part lot u, 50; Is. John Barry
W T. W. Jones. trustee, Sl,JU- sub "A, so. SIS.
! Magdalcna StrcbtO Moses Howlan, 81 900, part
| lot :, so. 40 A. n Law to ID. ii. Gilderseeve
! D.. $, ne-third lot %. ST. log. T. NJ Shcp-
herd to Virginia Young. 500. port lot F. Sd. :5S
| George Millcrs heirs to {. d. Bond. 81 100, sub
| !. lot ,, 81. 4t3. B. II. Warner to l.. p. McIn-
| tire, Sl,25n. sub 50, 50. 2T6. j. c. Marbury
! trustee to VIM. II. Barnard, $4,000 lot on
| Stoddart street. Georgetown. c. fl. Bartlett
| 10 j. w. Carson. 500. subs 10 and of Girls
| Portion, (cOunty.) G. Truesdell. trustee to
| l.. A A. Mills, 800 lot IS, square $50 E. J.
Hill To A. j. HOff, :, 800, sub 43 of lots to s.
square 1903: A. 5. Campbell to re. Fox, $1,000,
lots 90 ITO a, square 1873. S. Cross, trustee. to
| Jane Lynch, $3.50, sub. l53, square 6l5. Citi-
| Zens, Building Co. to Z. G. DuncanSOn, $500,
lot *, square 363, and $. 800, lot S. same square
A. Whites heirs to J. W: Shane, 81, $50, part lot
| /. square 6gl. NJ I'll. p. Burgess TO J.W Starr.
| trustee, so, parts lots "A and 25 square 2i1. T
| j. Brown TO +. II. Brown, s., lots y and %
| II. and half 81. Mount Pleasant.
| CHURCH ELECTIONS.-At a meeting of the
| members OF the Ninth street NJ. p. church last
! night officers were elected for the next con
ference year, as follows: Trustees-G. H. B.
White. James A. Kennedy, VIM. c. LipscOmb,
| Jr., b. Milburn, Nixon Brewer Stewards
James 5. TOpham, +. j. Bartlett, Lewis BlaSk,
| iStone, q. ". Dom, Levi Curry, James B.
| Austen .tnhnSnn la1ar