Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1889.
A Disg usting and Unpatriotic Pro-
gramme.


In the ardor of their insane advocacy
of a scheme of sewerage which would
waste the valuable fertilizing matter
which has been productive of such
happy results at Vernon and elsewhere,
southward of and in the southern portion
of our city, and which can be indefinitely
magnified in the same direction, the or
gans of the Ballona Sewer proposition
have directed deadly stabs at the reputa-
ton of Los Angeles as sanitarium.
The Soldiers Home was established
near this city on the official reports of
the Surgical Department of the United
States Army, and which asserted and
substantiated the fact that this was the
healthiest spot on the American conti-
nent and even in the world. The
action of the Tribune can be
understood; as. until the Sewer
proposition came up, that paper was
principally interested in establishing the
claims of San Diego and Lower Cali
fornia upon the attention ct mankind.
Pursuant to this policy, to which it has
staunchly adhered, the other day it dis
patched three of it's staff to that city,
doubtless with the intention OF remov-
ing the whole establishment on the de-
feat of its favorite project of bankrupting
the city of Los Angeles. But we confess
that we are little surprised to see the
Express admitting to its columns COM
munications which would make East
Los Angeles the unhealthiest region on
the American continent. A great effort
has been made to show that our whole
city. East and West, is the center OF diph-
liberia and other diseases arising from
sewer gas. A Communication in late
issue of the Express was of a par
ticulsrly alarmist character. In
this remarkable communication it
was stated that there were no less than
eighty cases of diphtheris on Hoff street,
in our Eastern suburb. DR.. D. W. @.
Franklin, of No. 142 Truman street, East
Los Angeles, who for some years past
has relinquished the practice of his pro-
fession in pursuit of mining projects,
CdIlCQ at tAO llEhALD yOstCludg
and informed US that there were not only
not eighty cases Of diphtheria on Hofi
stYuet, but that there were not eighty ia'
habitants on that street. He went fur-
ther, and avouched for the fact, on bis
professional reputation, that there was
not one well defined case of diphtheria
in the whole of East Les Angeles. We
will add, in passing, on the authority OF
DIR. K. D. Wise, that this city just now,
throughout its entire bounds, is singu-
larly free from diphtheria and all kindred
diseases.
DR.. Franklin enco untered an attache
of the Tribune, who tried to bull-doze
him into the admission that there was q
great deal of diphtheria in our charming
Eastern annex. The Doctor not only de.
clined to be bull-dozed, but gave this
emissary of municipal mierule and profit.
gate municipal expenditures fittipgre'
buke for his attempt to injure pros
porous and inoffensive community by
blatant representations of fact.
Have we not, in truth, come 10 a pretty
pass when a press which, il not subsi
died, is at least grossly misdirected
attemps to hold up what is conceded by
the. highest medical authority Of the
United States army, to be the most at
tractive sanitarium of the world as a
fostering center of disease and death ?
DIR. Franklin added, in his personal
communication to this journal, that the
only case of diphtheria which has lately
been reported in East Los Angeles was
not fatal one.
We leave our readers to draw their
own conclusions from such campaign
of Misrepresentation and Doodle greed.