San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-06
Small pox ouARANrlNEI


the alarm so generally spread over
the country concerning small pox, is
the honest belief of all who are COD
tversant with the circumstances. The
reports of our city board Of health
have been discredited, because q
larmists within this city have so dis
credited them, aud for no other rea-
son. Inquiry of the city phi ysician, OF
the county physician, of the men,
bers of the board of health, and
among other medical practitioners in
this city leads the LIGHT TO believe
that there are in this city
fourteen cases of small pOx.
This includes those in the pest
house, in the city hospital, and about
the city under guard and completely
isolated from all possibility of COM
municating the disease. no one being
permitted to leave or enter the prem
ises. This statement Is rs near the
accurate, absolute truth as 1t Is posi-
BILE to secure. Tie pest house cases
will all be discharged this week,
cured, and there Is no occasion for
alarm Of any kind. The rash and
senseless action of the state quaran-
tine officer in attempting to quaran,-
tine this city without ascertainipg
the facts has damaged us very. Sc
Tha 70 tav ,f, fI,t, nj; tu
board of health must be taken as:eon.l
elusive until they are shown
to be false, and there has, been no
evidence produced in any quarter to
show that the statements, ofithese
guardians Of hecity's health1are not
actually correct. These ststemen is
are coroborated by tn 1se Of some OF
the Oldest physicians in the city.
men familiar with the conditions ex-
listing and who place the number of
cases at not more than. fourteen.
Thea&ild Prumorst that have 'emanatod
; froin sensationalist paragraphers con-
corning the universal prevalence of
small ppx here are utterly false.
There is no sense In such,l upors. II!
lis true that there are several cases,
; Of small pox In San Antonio: prohr,
ably one case to- every 1000
Loof' the: q population, 1nbut the
ordinary citizen knows nothing Of any
small pox, nor would he. know if, he
remained shere " for months, The
strangers In the1city know nothibg Of
the existence of the disease, business
and travel show no signs "of it, aud
there lie no appreciable danger Of con-
tsgion. The city Is carefully guarded;
the health inspectors are .ailigent;
the ;eityUphysiciano- is using every
means to prevent the disease spread. 1
ing beyond the present h umbe af!
fected with ", and there is NO good
ground for fearing that matters will
be- any worse than they are: Tn. cit
liens can do much to allay alarm, by
Informing themselves of the Sit
uation and refusing ieredence tod
alarming reports having no foun-
dalton a, save in. the, fears OF
those who spread them. ", Converse
with our citizens and you will hear
them all saying-Iknowo of no small.
pox cases, the 9 are none in my neigh
borhood, but I hear that in such a
ward there are a great mum BET. En-
h . =
quiry in the ward referred to, reveals
no cases of which the general public
have knowledge. and it is so the ci y
over Que case Of small pox'in evety
A ono population, and these mostly
in city hospital and pest house, does
not make the \ cases so,s pumer-
Gus that e one runs Gup against
them very frequently. The facts
are as stated. sThere are from
thirteen to, fifteen, cases or the dis
ease in this city. The disease is not
spreading -aThe stranger who, comes
here and the citizen on ths,street are
not in danger Of tomiiig in contact
with it. The scare is seRseiess one.
A. quarantine agsinsta city because
,oretsortieth of ,.oDe per- cent of the
people are sick wi th a contagious dis,
base lss as wicked as it, Is unwise!l
When the disease becomes epidemic
and there IL any rea T daagefi the city.
board Of health will rot Neglect to.
sBotfy the state health .dePartlnent.
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The United Hates SENATE should
gfvstthe 'eountry5 a1speedy release