St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-14
HEALTH OFFICER HoYT,
DR.. Murphy and Other Citizens
Express Themselves Emphatic

ally.
DR.. Hoyt, Health Oficer-I hope the citi-
Zens of St. Paul will take no alarm-and peo-
pie of other cities for that matter, who in
tend to visit us There is positively no dan
ger to any one coming here. Everything
has been done to prevent spread, and the
people shonld be convinced of this when
they see that there are no additional cases.
DR.. Murphy-This excitement is all a hum
bug. 1t should never have made q sensation.
1t is much ado about comparatively nothing.
Why, we have had smallpox here now and
then for twenty years and nobody ever got
badly scared before. The health officers have
got it stopped and that is all there is to it.
w. A. Barr, Attorney-There is no occa-
sion for fright. do not know of any one
who is particularly alarmed. Our people
continue the routine of their respective busi-
ness callings just as though nothing had oc-
Cured.
W H. Fisher, of the Duluth & Winnipeg
There are no alarming symptoms and it is
the sheerest folly to be frightened. 1t hurts
the CITY and it hurts business when people
are actually scared.
NJ. w. Fitzgerald, Hardware Merchant
don't believe there is anything serious in the
cases. / have had the smallpox and feel
qualified to speak understandingly. At this
season of the year, with even ordinary pre-
cautions, there is no danger of au epidemic.
1t is a cold weather scorge, and it cannot
thrive very well in June and July. There is
no danger.
Col Welz, Of the Merchants'-I don't be-
lieve there was any earthly need of closing
the Merchants. My regular boarders feel
the same way. They are satisfied to remain
and are still here, and many of the guests
have insisted that they would not be turned
away. There is no smallpox in my hotel,
other hotel in the city, That is the way I
honestly feel. 1t is pretty serious
thing to me, and no one would
have suggested that 1 should close had the
papers treated the case in cool way. But.
YOU see, they got excited and the board Of
health was afraid of public sentiment in con-
sequence, and advised me to close. | am
always willing to do what is right in such
things, although | suffer and my business
is almost ruined for long time.
Prof. German, Principal of the High
SCHOOL, believe there is no occasion for
being greatly alarmed. | remember an in
stance that happened once in Brooklyn. A
school boy lived on one side of the street
and virulent case of small poX broke out on
the other side. But there was no fuss made
about it, The board OF health, however,
went through the schools and examined the
arms of all the pupils possible. They did
that children vaccinated when they are mere
babies should be vaccinated again when they
arrive at the age of puberty. Possibly it
might have been good thing had this case
broken out at the beginning of the school
term. 1t would have Influenced everybody
to have their children vaccinated.
Thomas Foley, recently of Chicago-I have
passed through several sieges. In fact have
had smallpox myself but from all l can
learn there is no reason for the slightest ex-
citement in this case. The way they do in
Chicagois, when case breaks out. to spirit
it off and exercise ordinary precautionary
measures The case cannot get a dangerous
footing in the summer time in healthy city.
George Gallagher, the Merchant Tailor-I
had smallpox in Ireland. 1t is bad disease,
but is seldom fatal under good conditions.
n rNf IN nr,6
| the least said about it the better. The people
| are easily frightened, and strangely so, too.
| Put up a card of scarlet fever on q house,
and little or no attention is paid to it; but let
| frightened to death. Now, these conditions
should be reversed. Scarlet fever is twenty
| fold the more dangerous.
w. j.. Romans, attorney-I think the
health departments of the state and city
| have the cases under perfect control and
| don't apprehend we will hear OF anything
| further
Carl Judson-There is no earthly reason
for this alarm. In fact the scare is imagin-
| ary
F. NJ. Catlin, attorney for the Duluth &
| Winnipeg road-I was not aware that there
was a small pox scare except from news
paper report. There has been no evidence
| of alarm in our Offices and / feel certain
| that there is no danger of a spread.
| AID Conley-In a short time the whole
| thing will have been forgotten. There is no
| danger of an epidemic.
| Hon. j. G. Flynn, of Little Falls-I am not
afraid to stop at the Merchants. and do not
| think it was a necessary precautionary meas
ure to close the house.
| Julius Kessler, OF Julius Kessler & Col
| have faith enough in the city aud state
| health departments to believe that they can
| take care Of this matter without sensational
| scare heads in the papers or the publication
| of much that gives false impression. What
| has been said has already done harm
| for it is ridiculous that people who
| intend to be at the funniest
next week should write in as they have to in
| quire as to whether or not it was safe for
them to come. If it were true (Which it is
mott that we were afflicted with plague, it
would be the duty of every citizen to do all
| possible to prevent its spread. But the ma
terial interests of the city should
creating a fake sensation. 1t does
not seem to have struck the sensationalists
| that next week we are to have here some
| 5000 of the representative Germans of this
| country. and that they not only bring geea
| cheer in their wake but a considerable
amount of money, which viii be spent here
| To subject thes6 people to such scare to
keep them away is insanity. 1t is spiting
/, our best interests for the benefit of
| goeasy writers. One can also see the pos
| sible effect upon the National Editorial con