The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-02

visit the post-ofice, is urged as ground
for the removal of the marine surgeons
Office from the post-ofice building. The
people of Cairo have no fear, and they need
have but little fear if they are properly
vaccinated; therefore they do not cease 10
visit the post.office for their mail and do
not clamor for the removal of the marine
surgeons Office to some lonely spot, remote
from the inhabited portion of the city
The marine surgeons office is not thing
which may be kicked about like an old hat
or foot ball. The marine surgeons office is
always an adjunct to the custom house
whenever the custom house and the ma
| rine hospital station exist in the same
place, and not only is this the case in this
country, but also in Europe. The marine
surgeons Office is located in the custom
house by order of the secretary of the
the United States treasury and its loca-
ton can not be changed except by order of
the secretary or by an act of congress.
| Whether such an order or such an act
could be obtained in time to affect the de-
sired change during the prevalence of the
present little scare is doubtful, and it is
also doubtful if such an order or act could
be obtained at all. It is not reasonable 10
suppose that the government would 60 to
the extra expense of securing an Office for
| the marine surgeon, when it has one al
ready especially prepared in building of
its own. In such small things the govern
ment is Enthusiastically misery. Blu.
suppose such an order or act were obtained,
suppose the marine surgeons office were
removed from the post-office building,
would the danger to citizens, of contageon
from persons afflicted with an infectious
disease, lie thereby lessened3 1t is doubt
full, to say the least. Suppose that DR..
| Carriers wish were consulted in the matter
of the removal. and the Office were remov-
ed to Ohio levee somewhere, so that il
might be convenient to those men for
whose benefit the office exists, and the re-
suit would be even worse than II is now.
| Ohio levee is always the most populous
street in the city; it is mostly frequented
by that portion OF the people of Cairo who
are least careful of their personal welfare
and by those who are the most careful
the negroes and the merchants. 1t is most
always crowded and there is perhaps not
one in the crowd who would not pass the
marine surgeons office q dozen times per
dav and comparatively few would not come
in contact, either directly or indirectly,
with men who sought the Office for treat
ment. On the other hand, suppose the ma
rine Surgeons Office is moved to an iso-
lated spot-some place which citizens of
Cairo instnctively avoid-suppose it were
removed to the marine hospital station or
to the garrett Of the rest-house if you
please, and what would then be the RESULT
Why, not river man in the country would
know where TO find it, and if in need of
treatment for contagious disease, would
wander about the city for hours, making
inquiries Of people and communicating to
them the loathsome disease with which
he may be afflicted. AS it is, with the ma
rine surgeons office in the custom house,
where every river man who knows anything
Of the marine hospital service, knows it is
by law located, there is less danger than
there would be if the Office were removed
to some isolated place. River men know
where the Office is to be found and they
reach it with less trouble and perhaps less
liability to come in contact with others
than were the Office in place other than
that which river men have come to look
upon as the proper place for it. The
BULLETIN does not deny that the marine
surgeons office is not desirable adjunct
to the post.office and that because Of its
being in the post.office building the dan
ger Of taking small pox at the post-office
is somewhat greater than it would be if
the Office were not in the building; but
The BULLETIN fails to see how the removal
of the surgeons Office from the building
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to some other part of the city would opper-
ate in any other way but to increase the
danger to the same extent in another d.
recton, and the only way in which this
could be avoided would be to remove from
the city entirely both the surgeons office
and the marine hospital station.
COUNTY COURT.
The case of Mr., Richard Fitzgerald was