Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-25
ONE NEW CASE
Reported in Martins Ferry, Yesterday.
The Quarantine Discussed by an Oni-


The Quarantine" Discussed by an ON
ciaI.
One new case was reported in Mar
tins Ferry, yesterday, but none in
Bridgeport. There are good many
patients in Martin Ferry who are well,
and something like eighteen will be
discharged during the present week,
according to reports last night.
There was a big demand for passes
from the Ohio side, yesterday, and they
were issued almost without limit, not
withstanding the sentiment at Mon
days session of the Board of Health
was distinctly in favor of maintaining
a strict quarantine At that session
the signatures of the chairman OF the
Committee, the H12lth Officer and the
Chief of Police were all required on a
pass before it should be valid, 50 it
would be difficult" to secure passes.
AS a matter of fact there was nothing
so easy to obtain, yesterday, as pass,
and scores and scores were issued, with
the result that the quarantine" said
by the Board on Monday to be neces-
sary, was no quarantine at all. A
member of the Board was interrupted
yesterday while he was signing passes
long enough 10 enquire how many had
been issued during the day. oh,
don't know" was the reply; probably
a hundred and fifty
Anybody can get one?"
mo, not everybody; we have refused
passes to-day; but we're mainly keep
ing up the Bridgeport quarantine to
keep Bellaire from quarantining
against u.s."
Isn't the quarantine a good deal of
a farce"
NO; you see these passes are to peo-
pie who are all right and safe. Many
of them have been working in the mill
over there, and there is no smallpox
near the mill"
IF smallpox should break out again
in Wheeling, won't the public hold the
people who issue passes responsible?'
VERY likely-unless it could be trac-
ed to some Other-source. The fact IS,
Wheeling has been full of Martins
Ferry people to-day. | have heard OF
them often"
Come over on passes"'
"No; without passes"
How is that"
"Oh, they cross above the city and
come down. We can't keep them out"
"Why? Can't the city place officers
at the north city line?'
Eyes. but how can the officers tell
where a man is FROM"
They don't have to tell. Put the
burden of proof on the people coming
in. If there is reason to suspect that
people cross the river above the city
and come into town, the city could stop
every one and make them prove their
residence"
"Oh. we'll you can't do it. They
come on the trains and every way.
We called the attention of the county
officers to it, and they did nothing"
said the gentleman, as he signed an
other pass.
It seeme reasonable to suppose that
the quarantine was originally estab-
lished, and ordered kept up. by the
Board OF Health, because it was pre-
caution absolutely necessary to the
health of the city If it was. it should
be maintained. and if the city cannot
maintain it without calling on the
county, it's a bad state of affairs, which
only the issuance of a hundred and
fifty passes a day can cure. 1t looks,
in the estimation of a good many peo-
pie. like resumption by the city au-
thorities of the old policy of trifling
with Fate-provided. of course. quar-
antine was necessary in the first place.
One man was seen last night who
had been all over Bridgeport en- col
Letting tour, going from house TO house
He was probably germ procf-at any
rate he had a pass.
The Health Board ought to meet just
once more.
At midnight last night three Martins
Ferry men-all full-were seen in one
saloon. They had come over somehow,
without passes. and were Dragging
about ii and shaking hands with every
body and setting 'em up.
Prof. Shelf. the optician. can be con-