The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-24
evils, Secretary of the State Board of

: Lewis, Secretary of the State Board of
| Health.
! | think that, if it has taken the active
and almost daily Investigations of eX-
perts and specialists more than two weeks
to discover the cause of the outbreak of
! fever, it could hardly be expected that
| any one not AN expert could nave fore
| seen that cause before even the fever APP
| peared and showed that the cause exist
ed.
| This is all that / shall say to you in
! defense of the management of the col
| lege.
! l have no heart to argue with Il man
overwhelmed by such a bereavement as
yours has been. | know that ! am not
responsible for your sisters illness. and
| at another time you would not write so
bitterly
AS | said to YOU in former letter
! (this was a letter of sympa-
thy to the family addressed,
think, TO Mr.. A. ID. Ivie, who
| lived at Leaksyille, and who was the
only member of the family | had metz
| I have profound sympathy with YOU and
your family in the great loss YOU have
/ sustained.
Very truly yours.
| CHARLES y. McIVER.
! / do not understand what is meant
! by the statement that the management
! had spoken contemptlIously of the illness
! of the students. / know of nothing that
/ has been said that would justify the
statement.
If. however, this is n part of n general
! charge of heartleSSneSS on the part OF
! those connected with the management,
and of lack of sympathy and consider
! alton for the students, | am perfectly
! willing for the students themselves to
! pass Judgment upon the matter.
Next to the families of those who have
died the keenest sufferers in ali this
| tragedy and sad bereavement have been
/ and are the officers and faculty of this
| college There is not one among them
who has not felt personally the affliction
| that has come to us all, ard there is not
| one who would not have done anything
| possible to have prevented the sickness
and saved the life of the beautiful and
| admirable young woman whose death is
mourned not mErely rs Il personal be-
rcavemont but as Il distinct loss to TINS
| college.
Before closing | desire to say that ut
no time have l prevented amy student
from writing or telegraphing anything she
chose to write or telegraph to her home
people or to others. So far from doing
so during the recent epidemic | formal
~ asked the students TO give the exact
facts to their home people; and when /
was informed by our physicians, that any
students illness threatened to become
serious, | Immediately informed by let
ter or telegram the parents or guardian.
| That | did not write to Miss lvie's home
| people about her illness was due to the
fact that. before she was considered
seriously ill, and when she had missed
only three days from her classes. her
brother spent two days with her, and
1 three days thereafter came with Dr.
/, Ivie and took her home
There was only one case of serious i'll
ness in the college during the month of
October and the student who hal that
case recovered. In fact. there was less
sickness during that month. as shown by
the daily reports of the resident physi-
elan and the daily records Of the facul-
ty than | have ever known in the col
/ lege during the same month in any year.
CHARLES ID. NEWER,
President.
| Greensboro, \. C., Dec. Is, 1899.
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