Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-21

I cannot spare the time to satisfy the curiosity of every doctor who might like to see the patients at the hospi- tall"
 sDr Mum: 'When we had small pox here several years ago and I was a member of the. board of health all I got for examining patients and fu- migating the houses was $4 a patient. I got $150 out of it in one whole year
 D. J. Lahey Sharply: ''Is that so, doctor. That statement does not agree with what is credited to you on the town books.
 Dr Mum Quitting his hand back of his earl: What's that ?''
 Mir Lahey (with roar): ''That does not agree with what you are credited with having received accord ing to the town reports
 Dr Mum: That's all got. If someone else made it more on the books I know nothing about it"
 MT Lahey: Do you think any body would do that?"
 Dr Mum: q don't know"
 Undertaken Auger made a long speech in the course of which he gave evidence of a dislike for the Irish which must have had it's origin some place besides Tn Waterbury, for it is notorious fact that all races agree very creditably in Waterbury. He claimed that all the French who had been suspected of having smallpox were sent to the pest house while the Irish patients were allowed to remain at home. He also pitched into the papers and stated that no reference was made to the nationality of the pa tients except to those of French ex- traction.
 That's not true" chimed in Mir La hey. Didn't the papers tell about Coffey? He was Irish.''
 MT Auger: ''The papers didn't say he was Irish. I believe they said he was a Dublin man, OaGghter).
 Martin Scully: 'Mr Auger makes great mistake in thinking that the papers didn't refer to the nationality of any of the smallpox patients except the French. John Coffey was Irish. The papers not only made mention of that fact, but told the town he lived in over there. what he worked at and what his father did for q living. Cof-
  wrote the sketch of him that appeared in the paper I write for, and in so do- ing I had no idea that l was ref1ecting upon the dead man. his nationality or myself. It is no disgrace to say that a man who was born in Ireland con- tracted smallpox and died of the dis ease and cannot understand why oth- CT races should look upon it as a slight.''
 J. Olin Howe said there was no pre- judice against the French and he knew no reason why there should be, and followed this up with q statement that Diamond was not the first small pox victim i'll Waterbury. He said the disease existed ill the Mccarthy block month before Diamond was picked up on the street. The French, he said, are not afraid of smallpox and consequently it spreads rapidly among them.
 Mayor Kilduff said it was not a question of races, but rather how could the disease be stamped out.
 Martin Scully asked Dr Kilmartin if any smallpox patients were being treated at their own homes and if so what percentage of them was French. The health officer said that at present there are 34 patients outside the hos pital Of these, 8 of them are French. Every man with an Irish name who had the disease was sent to the hospital, Coffey, Barry, Flynn and Daly.
 At the close of the meeting it was decided that Dr Lindsley and pr Townsend should come up here to- day and examine some of the patients.