Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22

able.r Medical testimony is against the
News, but all it has TO do Is to con.
tinue to repeat, 'small-pox uncon.
trollable at Fort WORTH and we have ~
doubt the people everywhere win believe
that our citizeus have closed their bust
ness houses and remain at home for fenr
Of the "epidcmic.n
Dr. Osborne, health officer Of Clebnrne.
testiles that Fort Worth is the best vac.
cinated town In the state, and that quar-.
antne is folly.
! DR.. Mckenzie, health officer Of Wealth.
erford, testiaes that quarantine can be
due only to Ignorance or spite.u
pr Carter, health officer at Dallas, In
his report to the city authorities OF our
dearly beloved sister city," SAYS:
have the honor to report thar proceeded
90 Fort Worth last night, as directed by tho
/ city council. and investigated thoroughly tho
smallpox now existing In that city. find that
the city has had since the a6th OF January
twenty four cases OF smallpox within tho
limits OF the corporation. Eight Of these cases
have been sent to the post house, three and
one half miles from the courthouse, across the
West Fork; four cases have died: twelve casos
are now in the city limts situated in six differ
ont places, viz -Four in one place. four
In another, and one each In fonr
other different places. Two cases wore
taken from the county jail to the post
house. There are prisoners now IN tho
fail that have been exposed TO tho
Infection, but they have all been yacclnatod
and no one allowed 10 go in or out. Nine
yellow 1ags RS 1ying--slx from the houses
now occupied by smallpox and three from
houses where 1t had been. These vacated
places have been well fumigated and clcansed
but the authorities, for prudence, keen the
llags flying. There Is no case OF small-poN in
what Is known as "Hell's Half Acre. though A.
had Its origin there. The house has since boon
destroyed by fire by accident The small pox
is not among the colored population. only one
having had II SO far. Nearly everybody in the
city has been vaccnated, and IL is still pro
crossing vigorously.
Dallas health officer testifies that
"thesc vacated places have been well
tumigated and cleansed," but the author
tiles, FOR PRUDENCE, keep the flags flying!
But the News must not despair. People
will believe smallpox uncomfortable in
Fort Worth II the existence of smallpox
here is only kept before them. We have
got the smallpox in Fort Worth, a small
winter supply; all cities have 1t nearly
every year. Even Dallas has 1t annually,
and has it now. Alderman Carter of that
city says they would deny having the
yellow fever, and we presume they would
also deny having the smallpox.
OF course the smallpox boom of
the Dallas News and the city
authorities is likely to demoralize
people, injure trade, diminish travel and
brighten home-seekers; but there is
nothing like creating smallpox sept
demic" and having it ''uncontrollable"
in the city one has the greatest "spite" at.
And the power of the press was never
better exemplined than in the boom which
has made an epidemic" of smallpox in
city OF $4,000 people that flies only sir
yellow flags from houses where smallpox
now is, and made that epidemic "uncon-
trollable" when the authorities, eroR PRu-
DENcE," fly flags from three houses
where there is no smallpox
On with the boom of IGNORANCE or
spite"