Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-23
Chicken Pox.


Ten or twelve weeks ago disease
broke out in the Murray family south
of the foundry about one block on the
New Oregon road. This case we under
stand was attended by DR.. Barrett.
From there it next appeared in the
family of Albert Stimson in the next
block east from Murray's. This case
was attended, we are told by DR.. Buck.
From here it was found in the Porter
family on the county line road, Nelson
Porter being the victim; at Seelys, at
,Garlic's in Cresco, but who the attend
ing physicians were in these cases or
in either of them we are not informed.
Finally it appeared in the family
across the street from Murray's where
it first appeared and is pronunced
small pox by the physician who at
tended the first case. In the mean
time persons from these several fami-
lies were permitted to attend the
theatre, the churches the public and
private schools of the city, the meet
ings of the Salvation army at their
free will and pleasure, in the places Of
business and to freely meet and min
gle with the people on the public
streets Of the city.
Are our physicians lot OF green
horns and ignoramuses who could not
tell the difference between chicken
pox and small pox, and who can not
distinguish either from the disease
produced from the presence of sa,coptes
scabiel-the itch?
The "wise men" Of Iowa City were
in Cresco Saturday, and Of course they
could not maintain professional digni-
ty and character without finding a
case or two of typical small pox, "and
they say they found it. These sswise
men"of course recommend univers-
al vaccination of old and young, their
recommendations heretofore having
called out from the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette the following criticism:
Well we are going to have something
new. The State Board of Health has
ordered everyone in the great State of
Iowa to be yaccinated. The Cedar
Rapids Gazette puts it that they are
looking for trouble and states that
they will find all of the trouble that
they wish if they try to enforce it. 1t
further states that they have been
trying to have it enforced down in
their section and that the people are
in pretty angry mood about it now.
There was a great small poX scare
Igotten up in Linn county and the
Gazette we'll states that there has
been but one death and that a great
.Imany people question whether thai
WAS from small pox or not. The small
Ipox has been reported first in one
iIplace and then in another this winter
generally to be followed by the report
that the first report was a mistake OF
that it was something else. There is
Igood grounds for thinking that the
Gazette is right when it says:
"Dr. Schrader made monkey OF
himself in the Lisbon and Mechanics
vile cases and there is no doubt in the
world that his main thought was the
one dollar per scab that he would be
instrumental in bringing into the
possession of the doctors who were t.
s|perform the work of vaccination.
''There are plenty of people who d.
not propose to have their children
needlessly tortured by vaccination
and these parents think that the.
have about as much right to the con
troll of their own young as have few
physicians in Des Moines. They hay'
land there are plenty of men in tn
state who are willing to go to an,
length to prove it"
''The people of Iowa have beel
humbugged enough. They will b
humbugged no more. Do the official
hear? Vaccination may be all righ
s. lfor those who want it but there ar
some who do not want it and there ar
some who think that they have th
right to defend their own persons.
1t is known to all that persons er
: tering the military service of th
S United States are compelled to sui
! init to compulsory vaccination. Ou
7 boys enlisting for the Spanish-Amer
S can war were yaccinated before en-
S barking for Cuba or the PHILIPPINE
y many dying from its effects, viii
). those going to the front are decimate
/ more by small pox than by the bulle
e of their foes. One of them from Mort
dakota, who had a battle with sma
pox after vaccination, thus writ
home, his letter appearing in Il
g Grand Forks Plain Dealer of 10th:
- ga man sees some terrible sights (
% battle field, but there is nothing
ID terrible as in the ward in a small p
le hospital. There the poor boys la
10 covered completely with runni
- sores, getting nothing but arsenic, b
~ whiskey and morphine as mediciI
I'd 1t is a case of live or die. II a man
he fortunate enough to live, he con
down the front stairs and takes
place with the other conyalescentS
he dies, he goes down the ba
lStairs where a black box awaits his
ln mains. A few shoyelfuls of quick Ii
- is thrown into the bottom OF the b
l n Sc, ~,