The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-22
CONCENTRATIONS.

TO the Ed1tOr or the JOURNAL AND COURlEh
 Hearing and reading so much in the papers about stagnant or fresh water pools, unsanitary conditions, fatten- ing oysters on sewerage and many
 other false and foolish things, I wish to make plain and, think, common sense statement of the facts in the case and leave the intelligent public to
 draw their own conclusions.
 We heard there was a suspicion that the oysters caused the sickness in Mid dletown, and, as the board of health wished to investigate, we had no objections and believed then as we still
 do, that they would be unable to prove their suspicious to be facts. We gave them all the information they wished, kept nothing back, believing if the pub lie were killed by our goods it should
 be known and the sale stopp.i; and we also expected a thorough, homes. and just report after a full investigation had been made, and not before. But what have we received from the board of health, or, perhaps should say, from Dr. Lindsley, who by his own report to
 the reporters says, "the evidence is not
 in, but the oysters are guilty" What do you think of such a man neing put
 on as juryman, passing judgment be- fore (as he admits hifnself) his own bacteriologists have finished with the experiments.
 The person whose sickness and death they try to connect with this case was apparently unusually we'll on Sunday,
 October z, attending church in the morn l ing and out riding in the afternoon, and
 out calling in the evening until be- ] tween g and 10 o'clock, which was the day before, as near as we can learn 1 the condemned oysters were taken from the river. It has been said by one pa per that she ate heartily of raw oys- ters, which is false for she never ate l raw ones, not liking them that way.
 The Quinnipiac river, as all those fa-
 miliar with it know. is a good size l rapid running river and has been used by all the oyster men that are now | or ever have been ir the business here for the last one hundred years | or more, at least as far back as the old est oysterman can recollect, and prob. ably no class of people have eaten more
 raw oysters than they, and where can you find healthier set of people, and | we refer you to any of our firm for fair specimens. >. z.
 We have in our employ people who arc
 continually eating raw oysters. and
 while don't say it to beast or to court l any germs, have eaten raw oysters frequently since the storm has been
 raging; twice last Sunday: and yester. l day when I wanted to sample some l oysters that were taken from the iden.
 ticaa spot that the condemned stock
 came from. I opened and ate them as have always done. sr.r,- Why is it that no one in Middletown
 was taken sick but those that attended
 the college banquets? They did not
 have all the oysters that we sent te
 Middletown. The town people ate the
 same thing, and why aren't the peo. pie that ate our oysters in the many
 towns we sent to been taken sick, fo,
 they had the same thing? <.
 One prominent doctor has been here
 looking over the conditions, and gave
 one of our firm the idea that he did
 not think there could be anything ir
 it; another said, if he had the time
 he could refute the whole thing, and l
 have no doubt if we had employed
 some one to experiment for ue. .athe re.
 suit of the fnvestigat ation would clear tht
 oyster fully as well as pr. Lindsley condemns 1t. There are no better end