Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-25
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 Is the French speci. list in town: This is a poser, though it ought not to be so, for his mission here Is q pub lie one and on that account we have a right to know all about him. Yes terday afternoon q very prominent French citizen told Democrat report CT that the specialist was here and that his name was Professor Valin, q graduate of the university at Mon treal. Later in the day the reporter met ID. $. Baribault and another dis fingufshed appearing gentleman on Bank street. The reporter asked Mir Baribault if his companion were the specialist whom he had been expecting here to examine smallpox patients. MT Baribault said he was not, adding that he was friend who had called upon him relative to other matters. To-day MT Baribault informed the re- porter that this same gentleman is the French specialist, but he immediately qualified this by adding that he was and he wasn't. The reporter told MT Baribault that he should be pleased to know the truth so that there might be no misunderstanding and no onnor. tunity for fault finding. Mr Bari. pault thought it was not a matter that concerned anybody but the French people The reporter reminded MI BarlDault of his own statement to the erect that the specialist was brought here i'll the interest of the French peo. pie and the public in general. but this didn't bring out anything better than an eyasive answer.
 But specialist or no specialist. il can truthfully be said that the visitor IS line appearing man, but whether he knows anything about smallpox ol not is another matter which probably will be known later. Health Officer Kilmartin said today that he knew nothing about the presence of spe- cialist i'll town beyond what he had seen in the papers. Nobody had i'm formed him that he Is here. Ii is nm. derstood that the specialist will re main here~f for few days at q salary of $500 per diem.
 Notwithstanding MT BaribauIt,s am. biguous remarks, it can be truly soid that Dr Valin is supposed to be the specialist, brought on here from Mon tfeal to furnish light upon the small poX situation to the doubters and il was Ill that capacity that he held q conference with two local doctors at the residence of E. S. Baribault on south Main street last night. Doc tors Mum and Lodge and one or two other persons were present at the con Terence, or rather the private hearing Doctors Mum and Lodge were seen coming from the Baribault residence at o'clock last night. When Dr Lodge was seen by a Democrat re- porter to-day, he said that he had at tended a dinner at the residence of Mir and Mrs E. $. Baribault last even- ing on invitation of the former and he met the specialist from Montreal. Fur ther than that he refused to be inter- viewed.
 However, a Democrat reporter ob- tained from one in authority full re- port of the private conference. Af- ter dinner Dr Mum arrived at MT Bal1bauit's home. Dr Ledge ex- plained to pr Valin the smallpox sit- nation as he understood it. He cited different cases and finally brought in Rose Veayatte and her brother. two of the persons in the McCartly block who had smallpox and were sent to the hospital. After examining the young man, all three doctors, Dr yalin. Dr Lodge and Dr Mum were agreed that he had had smallpox. They did not state whether the girl had 1t or not. but their opinion was that the health authorities were perfectly right in sending her to the hospital when rash appeared upon her body as her brother was ill with smallpox. Thus the actiSn of the healtl. board was sanctioned.
 The specialist must have changed his mind after the conference, for it had been said that he expressed his intention last night of visiting the pest hospital and the quarantined houses, but this afternoon he left for home without doing any thing. The visit of the specialist may be summed up in a few words. q grand victory for Health Officer Kill martin.
 The feeling of some people aboui town this afternoon can be more read fly imagined than described. They fee that they have been made fools of oS few irresponsible persons and scarce ly know what to say for themselves To use a common expression the pro lessor was up to snuff. knew his busi ness. and left town with a rather pool opinion of some men in Waterbur, who pretend to be doctors. He saif there was nothing for him to investi gate and grew furious at the joker. who wanted to have him believe ger tain symptoms noticeable in some of tht patients, before they were sent to tn, isolation hospital indicated anytllin: but smallpox. Tn justice to the Frencl people of Waterbury it ought to b, said that most of them took no stocl in the cry that they were being perse cuted on account of race prejudice S' far as can be learned, no Frenchman who lived in Waterbury for any grea length of time gave ear to this kind 0 talk. The rumpus was stirred up by