The sun., 1899-12-13
GOTTHEPLAGUEDOWNFIN FINE
BOARD OF BEALTH UP TO ITS CHIN
IN MEDICAL LORE
D'you Want Authorities7 Lo All the wis
dom Of the Fast Il at Hand for tho Trouble

D'you Want Authorities7 Lo All the wis
dom of the Fast Il Mt Hand for the Trouble
OF Turning over "a PaRo or Two
As to the santos Coffee, It's Still Ahost.
Tho Board Of Health failed again Yesterday
to determine what TO allow the consignees OF
tho Santos coffee to do. All the commissioners
were at the meeting. As soon as the doors
had been closed the bell for James the mes
senger. gave three long rings. two short rings
and then one long. James consulted his signal
book and then hurried to tho acove in the
board library marked Plague" and from there
took load OF books on n small rubber wheeled
truck into the meeting. Among the volumes
wero volumes BOX Can" and "Phy-P Pro" OF
the Encyclopedia Britannica the eighteen
genuine and twenty three spurious volumes Of
tho "Hppocratic Collection !" History and
Adventures Of an Atom" by Smoett: Harper 3
Book of Facts" why Rats Leave Sinking
Ship" by Hierophilus: "Of Favers." London.
1881: "Galen's Boylsh Franks at Pcrgamum !"
Should Terriers Be Used in Time OF Danger"
by Erostratus. and the com mplete Medical
Works Of Pauus Egineta"
The books were hastily shuffiel ami dealt by
the commissioners and the general discussion
began. Parts Of II could DO heard through the
open trnnsom
Il don't care what you sny." one COM
missioner wns heard to remark rather i'm
patiently. we've GO: tho whole thing right
here. and how are you going to get back OF
it?"
Then thorc was whack suggesting that
some ono had slapped tho hnli-calt cover OF
book for the sake OF mphasis.
Now Just remember In another voice what
happened ut Kurdistan and that ia 5000 feet
above tho sea. Staten Island isn't 1000 feet
above the sen. l. it? What arc you talking
about; our position i impreanable.'
Hippocra,es. but h. didn% % ssy he ddn, % Know know
his business. What ho didn't know about tho
plague wasn't worth knowing then 9nl isn't
Eight days nothing! lTippocrates said eighty
u hc said minute. Certainly, he learned that
right contrndict me again-well. II might have
been, from Dcmocritus. but he learned It. any.
,"wcll. l know I don't want to take any
chances after what Eve read about what hap
pened in Nola aRd Corfu: Why, there wouldn't
Didn't he cure Eudcmns after every other saw
bones IN town hnd said that he didn't havo
ghost OF u show from another Commits oner.
And didn't the people IN his own ward call him
der;worker.' That's where we get our word
"los, and Erasmus said the same thing later
In hls AnEliT FlaGcllum. There's no use OF
our buckine up against those follows on what
You're dead right there. Cabiads himself
would stand Tor that"
WHY yo oss S2" fS vGs How 's" sSJ rs S
the S"ysnteGnth century ON. yop give In. do
way. and Dr. Doty can talk TIL he's hoarse. and
pr Jensins can grin and wink Till h!s face ,alls.
GnanS bid Si'TS say Cnids' EIcuse m; me. '"'1"
pG and rGaE aSn " @ sa eHs Te9s
wer" others ~ this meeting I w"rt say any
thing abop, serenus and darGin., Martiqs
although Sy they We're All good msn' sr" S~ Hut we
can't afford TO ignore Rhase. for another day:
then he exploded tha, 'ooI theory Of Avcenma ma
about measles and inside Qt two years had the
'No hs won't either Aid el- -Malik wasn't in
II for q minute with Kha2cs Amt tclliu'
Blu; ecn,lemcn. coming down Il few years.
or going back few. Eve forgotten which. We
eeme s,rI9s To remarsn6e roi refer TO
and Actuar'us. whose last name I've forgot
That's his last nnme- ActuarIus"
name. But that doesn't signify. These three
nhyissSi ar, ,5s s1 4, Ts w61 S%
administration Of the PnlmoloGi. They know
al ny1n. ,hS plague SHd ng, only that ir tihsr
how dl1 they Ind things IN BYZln'ium Gon-
tlemen; they found things N h,rrih!e condt-
Office two weeks before they had compelled
every proprietor OF public bath to put in
new drip rams. And then they tackled tho
grand stand ~ the hirpOiromr. They exam
ined every supporting column for crncks and
they found great many. II tho palTologi
hadn't been elected when they were thousands
o' persons wOuli hnv" been killed at the races.
Then what did pap1gnmenuI and his asspci-
at"S dot Did they st idy hya By no means.
They caused all those pillars to be repaired.
Ther" you see. gentlemen. the truth OF the shy-
ing that history repeats itself, L"f us not TO
outIonr by the Health Board OF ByZantium"
The meeting then adjourned. Com i-sioners
Cosby and York w"r" cheerful. ard said that
good progress had been matio. but that there
was nothing - say. President Murphy also
locke relieved. ami said there was nothing yet
for publication.
DR.. Doty ant Commissioner Jcn X ins wouldn't
open their mouths They looked "a II they
didn't care whore thoy went or what happened
next.
Tn" steamship J. W TAYLOR left Quarantine.
bound for Queenstown, Mt G:lh o'clock last
evening. aud cleared tho bar an hour and n
half later.