Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-06
AN OPEN LETTER
To Tie Narieopa County Board of Super
 visOrs.

HAYDEN FERRY, Tempe, MaricOpa {
 County, A. T., Sept. 2Ith, lSeS3. } To the Hon. Board of Supervisors of
 Maricopa County, Phenix, Arizona
 Territory:
 Gentlemen;-Deputy Sheriff W. H. Edwards and Dick TOotan report that they saw six cases of smallpox on the Salt River reservation previous to their being quarantiaed. As can learn of no case of death from this disease and it has entirely disappeared from among them, 1t would seem to ne that our phy- siciaas might study these cases with very much interest in regard to the treatment of this disease, provided 1t existed as charged. The chief on said reservation earnestly requested that his people be relieved from quarantine and l promised to represent his case to you.
 In regard to the quarantine of Mesa City, and for some time JOnesville ol the road just above thls place, wish Co say 1t has worked a very great hardship on many men with families dependant entirely upon thc1r labor with thelr teams, many Of whom lave been depriv- ed of their freedom for nearly a month, without just cause. To quarantine a country ten mics ss.uarc. settled with a people ID isolated home, because few hundred rods in the district is affected by smallpox, not only seems to me ab- surd, but criminal. especially when there Is no surveillance enforced on the ground between the affected and disin- fected parts of thIs district, the only point where the quarantine should be carefully established. And in the exer- cise of extraordinary power over such affected district you would receive the hearty support of those whose feelings are now intensely aroused al what they believe to be a great outrage.
 The too great faith of Bishop McDOn- aid in his family physician. who declared his son, until his death, had not the smallpox, which led to so great exposure in Mesa City, has been followed by a vigilance that these facts explain, and show to the world that the care of the people of this county, as well as the sur rounding countries, might be left Go them.
 Of the thirty four cases of smallpox that have occurred in Mesa City, all have been traced to the first, and tue necessary exposure of nurses, except one case that thinks sue was iuocUlated by vaccination or exposure to the county physician coming direct from the pest house.
 Teams from my mill that have never been nearer than two or three miles oi Phenix or Mesa City, where smallpox has prevailed, and in no way exposed. have been quarantined in Prescott, Flor ence and Casa Grande, and statements published that the smallpox prevailed at this place. The remedy for some Of these evils seems to ne to be that you collect as q Board of Health of this county ct once, by sworn statements of physicians, the Sheriff and other respou- sible men you can reach, the whole facts as they have existed n regard to the smallpox in this county for at least one month past. and send It to the officials of the various counties.
 Now, removed from the early excite ment in this matter. I feel assured that you and the surrounding county off cisls will be able to remove the evils from which We are suffering by an ac ton grounded only on facts, and that we will not have to look % a higher court for remedies against these wrongs,1
 Yours truly, CHAs. T. HAYDES.f