Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-26
CLEBURNE.
OiIIcial Report OF The City Physician TO
the City Council on the Small
pox In Fort Worth.
Dock Rice Gives Five Thousand Dollar
Bond aud Is Reieased-ISieosoo
Tempieton Nuptinls

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CLEDuRSg, Tx, Feb 25.---The follow.
ing is the official report of Or. Osborne TO
the council:
| CLEBuRNE, TEX, Feb. %. &c.
To the Hon. Mayor and Board OF Al
dermen, city OF Cleburnei GENTLE
MES-Apprecidting fully. your noble
| impulses, and the incentive Of hui
mainly that prompted you on last Friday
at your council meeting 20 send me, In
my official capacity, 10 Fort Worth TO in
yestighte thoroughly the condition Of
smallpox existing there, | respectfully
report that have performed that duty,
with the following result;
was prepared, from the widespread
rumors and reports that were hourly
reaching US, TO find Fort Worth one
great smallpox hospital. Before re-
porting myself to the city authorities,
deemed II best to investigate for myself.
SO, through the kindness and courtesy Of
personal friend, ! was taken all over
the city, In every direction, nook and
corner, and my surprise was great and
my anxiety relieved when
found only nine yellow flags
fiying-six al places where the
smallpox existed, and three where
il had existed. Upon actual count thirty
cases Of the disease had developed in
Fort Worth-six having died, only TWEEN
ty-four now on hand. OF these eight had
been removed TO the pest-house, three
and half miles from the courthouse,
| leaving sixteen cases In the city limits.
I Five in one house, four in another, two
in another, and one each In three other
houses, where the yellow flag was dying.
| fnu.gstf,atta,. t,Na
viewed the city authorities and
found those gentlemen more than
anxious TO show the condition that ex-
listed and the manner in which they were
keeping the disease down, and their de-
| termination to do so, in my opinion, will
stamp the disease out In the next twenty
days. They are using every available
precautlon, mainly depending on the only
safe and known prevention, through vac
cinatlon, In conjunction with cleaning
and fumlgating. They have one physi-
clan who has given up all practice
and takes entire charge Of the
smallpox patients. The disease &C.
CURED first in what is known as "lIell's
! Half Acre" and from 1t all the cases can
| be traced, save one, an importation from
! Brentwood. The original place where it
occurred has been burned out; certainly
u most effectual way to stamp 1t out.
After interviewing the authorities, |
visited great many Of the medical pro-
fesslon, and found substantially the same
report from all--no misrepresentation
| no eyasionS, no excuses; and all de-
| termined to use cyory eXertion TO
| "down the dreaded scourge," and all
| busy vaccinatlng. The people are fol-
| lowing their advice, needing willingly
their Instructions and being vacclnatcd,
| you might say, in Solid mass. All agreed
! with me, too, that the arm TO arm or body
vaccination was wrong aud should not be
tolerated, and only the very best bovine
virus should be used. Their public
schools have been yaccinated en- masSe.
The people at large are cleaning their
premises fumigatng and using disln-
fectants,
With this state of affairs before me,
and believing finally that II will soon be
stamped out, | came home, prepared to
advise with you against the quarantine,
and Offer the following reasons for not
doing so.
!. We have in vaccination the most
perfect aud reliable guarantee and pro.
lection against smallpox This now is
10 the reach OF all aud your honorable
body have required II to be done
.. Quarantine is impracticable, unless
we quarantine against the whole country
Tor we know that smallpox is now exist.
ing In san Antonio, Runnels, Brown
wood and Fort Worth; that Is TO say II
we quarantine, We must shut ourselves
In from the outside world, draw oul
horns in aud say Away we want nc
communication with anyone.
Az ia Enrt w ntsfI, than Ian ~, p,rvo Il
so TO speak, the disease by enforcinl
strict and rigid private quarantine.
s. by vaccination the disease per sc
even If taken, Is so modified that IL Is no
dangerous nor very painful, and one ex
posed TO II either by palpable or lmpalpa
BILE contact can easily fortlfy hlmsel
against IL by immediate vaccination, fo
/ the disease becomes an easy victim to II,
MASTER vaccination, II the remedy be APP
piled at once,
In closing, permit me to recommen(
that you require every one to be vac
clnated without delay, especially Thu
school children, for where crowd il
there Is the pabulum for injection, con
tagion and disease Very respectfully,
JAMES ID. osborne,
City Physician.
Mr.. l., g, Templcton and Miss Nelli,
Bledsoe were married last night at tn,
residence Of the BRIDES mother. 4 few
, friends of the contracting parties wer
/ present and witnessed the oonsummatlol
OF the happy union, Although the exac
date upon which the nuptials We're I,
7 have been celebrated was not general,
! known, a large number of elegant pres
ents were received.
Mr., and Mrs. Bloodworth took tn
north-bound train to-day for Tyler, Mr.
w. II, Brown and family and Mr.. Il. Il
Mcdaniel follow Ia Il few days, and tn
three gentlemen will form coparmer
ship and engage in the hotel business,
II. u. Cooley has goa to Socorro, n
NJ, to look after his cattle interests there
Dock Rice gave the $1,000 bond re
! quired OF MIN, and was released,
w, IL Byrd went to Fort Worth so
, day and bought a large stock of candies
etc.
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