Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22
IGNORANCE OR SPITE. !"
Dallas Can Take Whichever Alterna-
tive It Deems Most CredltabIe
to the City.
Health 0fllcers From Weatheriord and
y Decatur Talk to the Point
8cl. Very Plainly.
re e.
The ~ a'iss OF Quarantine, That 10 some
Kinds OF Quarantine You Know Like
tho Dallas Article.

yesterday mornings GAZETTE an
nounced the arrival In Fort Worth of
DR.. John II. Mckenzie, health on
Ger of weatherford, who came
here with view of ascertaining the true
status OF the smallpox situation. He
devoted the greater part OF the day in
visiting every locality where the disease
now exists, making the rounds in COM
pany with DR.. l.. b. slauter, who gave
him all the facts bearing on the question
since its inception.
Before returning TO his home last night,
a GAZETTE man met Dr. Mckenzie at the
Pickwick hotel, when the following con-
versation substantially occurred;
"What do you think, doctor, of our con-
dition after having examined for your
SELF"
81 do not regard II as at all worthy the
alarm and noise that it seems to have
created With DIR. Slauter visited
every infected place, except one,
and found that there were twenty. Ave
cases, all told, eight Of which are now
convalescent."
"Do you fear any further spread Of the
diseasefn
~ do not. The points where Il now
exists seem to be under good control,
and with anything like ordinary pru-
dence on the part of outsiders, the danger
OF extension Is reduced to a minimum.
Vaccination seems to be almost universal
here. That goes long way to insure fu-
tuIe surety, AWo .iiihss ure esseLtlai 70
get tne mastery Oh -'acelha-
tlon anu lsoiatlou' Iut tnese Two IN
plavuce anu theIe isn any chahce LOT an
epluemlc'
VIII WealDerlord INITIATE the hopie
example sci oy Daliasf
40 not nave tne sDSntest ldea that
, such course WIN De adopted. Three
years ago next June Fort worth had q
great deal more smallpox than II mas
now. came down then ana advised
against quarantine, ana IL was not uone'
/. Wen, before long the smallpox ala APP
pear at Weatherford, put u was
Drougnt tnere oy negro IRON
!, III faso' Inns quarantine business
Is all rot. 10 make IL thorougl
~ must pc enforced IN al dlfeeSions' iht
= disease IS as iiKely TO come from the has'
as the West from the Nerth as inc
South us all numoug TO quarantine
. against any one point. III can never d
but partially enforced anyway. No,
don't thlnk That Weatneriord mas any DE
, sign oil doing any such thing. Our PEG
pie are not at all panlc-stricken."
~ ITO what DO you attribute the motive
,0 then that lnnuenced DallasF
81 can see only TWO motives--ignor
QQcH or EDltG. You can A00Dt WlicleXe
]. horn OF that dilemma you think accord
best with the facts"
"fou seem down on the quarantine
business, doctorr"
81 am. When one renects that THIS dls
ease, owing TO our proximity TO countr
that Is never free from III Mexico, us ilkei
. to appear at certain seasons In Amos
any Texas town, ana that, lndeeu,
good many OF our Western towns have
most OF the time. IL looks absurd Tor
Q place to try TO shut off sister city, a
. Dallas did. Such step will not guai
antet Dallas any immunity, and II wat
therefore, nnwise and unnecessary"
ANOTHER OFFICER INTERVIEWER,
Among the arrivals on the Fort Wort
& Denver express yesterday afternoo
was DIR. George A. Swami, city pbysicis
. Of Decatur. Dr. Swami came down
his Official capacity, on a similar erran
10 that OF DR.. Mckenzie, as given aOoy
He talked with a GAZETTE reporter fuli
and frankly, with the air Of a pruden
y conservative man, yet far removed fro
~ any faint OF sensationallsm or timidit.
lie said: 81 find the status exactly :
expected, having previously receive
official information respecting u
, progress OF the disease. VIII ID
IN think
quarantine against Fort Wort
= would be nm extreme measure, that OF
" people are very unwilling TO adopt, III
less absolute necessity compels, quaral
ttWhat kind of q reDOrt will You max