Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-27
THE UNaRALrHIESr CITY
An Omcial Declaration That Wash
mgton Is the Place.

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Washington is the most unhealthy large
city in the United States
This Is official.
The Marine Hospital service says so.
Various attempts have been made by the
newspapers 10 account for this condition.
because the publication of this Official ad-
mission has done great injury % the repu.
tatiou of the city. No one cares TO remove
from a healthy city to one the most un-
healthy in the United States
Every person Of experience knows that
there is no natural or physical reason why
Washington should be more unhealthy than
other large cities. It must be accounted
for in some other way, and singularly
enough no newspaper in Washington has
had the courage to tell the truth about it,
that the blame lies with the Board of Health,
a fosslized and bedraggled institution in
Washington, worthy Of being classed
among the antiquities.
The Washington Health Department is a
machine.
A machine is a thing that works for profit.
When there is no profit II stops working.
The Washington Health Department
never worked more energeucally than now,
beating down its helpless victims and those
who stand in its way as ruthlessly as the
robber beats down his assailants.
Money lavishly appropriated for its sup
port and for scientific work is wasted in the
salaries Of useless and incompetent officials,
detectives and spies, who spend their time
annoying milk dealers, butchers and shop.
keepers who are decently pursuing their
ways and their trades.
And they fry the fat for all that's in IL
too And the favorites they allow to
flourish
AN the department jobs, contracts and
privileges are "cinch" forthose who work
them.
Any man who comes under the dis
pleasure of this board, no matter what his
profession, business or occupation, will be
hounded TO his grave, If necessary, or put
into Jail on tumped up charge made by
some irresponsible tool that The board keeps
employed for such a purpose
No physician pharmacist, midwife or
druggist dare stand In It's way or do any
thing TO oppose It's rule Of favoritisn, fraud
and corruption for fear of being destroyed.
No medical practice, garbage system, CON
tractor or those who are under its ban dare
open "a place in Washington under pain of
persistent persecution
Think of 1t citizens 10 this day and age of
scientific knowledge concerning germs,
germ culture, bacteriology, serums tocsins
and disease preveutatives tuis rotten old
hulk of a Health Department is not even
up TO a village that ii has never discovered
"a serum, tocsin or germ that il made no
attempt even this summer to destroy the
mosquitoes produced by the Potomac flats,
while Jersey City was destroying them on
the meadows that it is utterly iucom-
petent and a disgrace TO the nation and you
will then begin TO see why Washington is
unhealthy and why IL must bear the odium
of being the uuhealthiest city in the United
States
II is time to pause and to think
Decent people the honorable men Of
means, the property holders of Washing
ton, the business men, owe it TO themselves
TO put AN end to this condition. Il is too
seriogs for delay Washington, the queen
of cities the most unhealthy of them alll
Who can believe IT, even with the widest
stretch of the Imagination
The members of the Board of Health
should be promptly removed and a new
regime begun before the damage becomes
too great for repair
Washington should not be allowed to rest
under the stigma of being the uuhcalthiest
city 10 the United States