The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-28

reference to the smallpox in Wheeling
that havo yet gotten out, The most un'
reasonable stories are told aud believed
outside Of the city, aud are sent broad.
cast all over the country. A prose dis
patch received In the regular United
Press news repor! by a paper In BRugor
Ne, VIA sent by tho telegraph editor to
a Wheeling friend, ItreportS tWOnty'
four new cases as appearing here on a
day when there was not one new case
aud there were not nearly twenty
four cases in all in the community. A
similar telegram was sent on the same
day to tho Cleveland Press, and a
Wheeling man wrote protest agalnHt
80 false publication and received the
somewhat surprising explanation that
the story was sent by tho papers Bel
lairS correspondent 1t saOms incTedl'
bic that anybody would use such mat
ter nc the existence OF q few smallpox
caseS for local or personal business ad-
vantage to another town, but there
have been many signs that this thing
has been systematically aud persiatently
done in this vicinity.
Saturday the following commuDica'
ton was received by Health Officer Jep'
sou aud the daily papers OF Wheeling:
McMEcuES, W, Va, Oct. IS, 1895.
10 ne Eit.or Of the IattltgeRetr.
sIR:-At the instance Of over $50 citi.
Eens We your humble committee are In.
structed 10 communicate with you and
ask that the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, concerning the
smallpox he published and TO notify
you that II it is not done tue state
board Of health will be convened for an
investigation OF the matter, and other
means be found to promulgate the
truth, and protect the health OF tho sur
rounding community.
Respectfully submitted,
J. I. KING. principal Of school,
JolS n. RouEY, mayor,
J. y. RHODES,
II. s. HART,
JAMES A. ROBERrs, committee.
So far rs the lSrgLLiGENcER is con.
cerned there has been no occasion given
for the McMAchen people to get excited
This paper has printed "the truth, the
whole truth aud nothing but the truth"
60 far aS 1t could be RscertatRed, ever
since the smallpox appeared. DR.. Jsp.
sons official atatemenla. since he bg.
came health officer, and DR.. WRlden's
before, have been printed when there
was any development TO make them Of
interest or importance to the public.
The trouble has been that people like
those Of McMseheu have accepted ex-
aggeraied and sensational rumors
against the frank and complete state.
ments given by the papers.
Yesterday DR.. J0pSon reported ten
cases Ia the city aud four In the email.
pox hospital. One patient at tho hos
pital 10 ready to be discharged. Two 10
the city are also well, bnt there is an
other case in the same house. and they
will therefore DO kept in quarantine for
some time yet. All the cases arc doing
we'll. The ten cases in the city arc in
only seven different houses. aud all are
In tho South Side wards, all but one in
the Sixth and Eighth. There Ia no
more danger Of spread OF the disease
than II there were but one case, as all
are under COOL control, rigidly quaran.
tined aud closely guarded.
Not a single nav case has developed
since last Wednesday. Tho outlook IL
favorable for tho stamping out OF the
disease. There may DO additional cases,
aud probably will DO, but the situation
is not alarming, and II the liars, both
tho designing aud IhOuehtleRs. could DO
quieted little would DO heard Of tho
disease.