Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-25
More About the SMALLPOX.

CATLETTsBURe, March 81, 1882.
Mr.. EDITOR: There has been great dea :.
said about the smallpox raging in this, the
18th district of Sewer County. The most
has been said by men living ten or twelve
miles from here, who, it seems, knew moth
ing of the true facts. The first letter we
shall notice was published in the CHRONICLE
from Mr.. Swipes. Now, 1 dou't
know who this Mr.. Swipes is,
but he pretends to know q
great deal about small pox-says in his letter
that he has had the disease-and still says
that no man could tell whether it is small
pox or not without seeing all the reported
cases, and then he might make mistake.
He says that MIR. Haggard's daughter who
died was said to have been sick from five to
seven weeks. AS Mr.. Swipes seems to know
nothing about the real facts, shall try to
tell you something of what / know to be
facts, and that is as undeniable as anything
CAL be
live within one and half miles of the
infected region, and can say that the first
case was noticed on the Sth of February,
1882, in the family of Mr.. Thomas, a son
IL or Is years of age. Soon after, or on
February II, Mitchell Naples, who had had
the small pox, was called upon for his be-
lief and opinion In the matter, and he said
from the start that it was small
pox. The people in that i'm
it, and went to see the patient, whereupon
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families, or twelve persons in all.
Noah Haggards daughter was a stout,
hearty, robust girl, about IA years of age,
and was stricken down on the 3rd day of.
March, dying on the 18th of the same
month, her death occurring on the 18th day
after the attack. DIR. Edwards, the attend
ing physician, who has sad more experience
with smallpox than any physician in the
county-a man who was physician and
treated the disease for months during the
late war, and who carries the scars on his
face-pronounced it small pox on first sight.
DIR. Edwards says, furthermore, that, if Mr..
Swipes, or any other man, don't believe it
is smallpox for him to come up and smell
it and taste it, and he will be satisfied.
Mitchell Naples, the gentleman who
was appointed to take provis-
ions !. and other necessaries inside
the quarantine lines, tells me that portion
of the cases now reported to be GONZALES
cent, have lost every toe and finger nail
they had. Other men have been telling
and trying to get the people who live at a
distance to believe that it is no smallpox,
and have gone far enough to say that it is
running business, SO far as US merchants in
Sevierville are concerned But say. it is
smallpox, and let us guard against it, if we
don't sell 800 worth of goods this summer
Let us keep it quarantined, if every store in
the county has to be shut up.
There are, at present writing, no new
cases. All but four are considered conva-
lescent Two of that four are considered
very bad, and their recovery is doubtful.
DIR. Edwards deserves great credit for the
manner in which he has conducted the mat
ter throughout.
have written great deal more than l
would have done, but 1 desire very much
that the people who say they know nothing
about it would stop clustering about it not
being small pox, unless they knew what
they were talking about
Very respectfully,
PINKNEY NAPLES