Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-17
SMALLPOX BILLS TALK OF THE TOWN.
Dr Frost Scored Denounced Every Sde-Peope Say m Bill Outrageous and Should Not Be Paid-Health Ofi- cer KImartin Explains Why He Ordered Third Church Entertainment Given Up--P
 Carter Lodges Letter is
 Subject For Lots
of Talk.

law if can head them in the direction of medicine"
 Another man thought what is now coming to light should be an eye-opeher to the people of Waterbury, who will have to come down with the dust. He thought 1t a grave mistake to have coc- tors on the board of health. He knew, lie said, that if the proper course uad been pursued at the beginning nrsr class physician could have been se- cured for S10 q day, who would be willing to care for all the patients at the isolation hospital. But there Is no end to what q paper might print on this question If it could afford space, and as there are other things in this connection that have to be referred to we must let the price question rest for the present
 Dr F. Carter Lodge appears to have thrown bombshell into the ranks of the medical profession. While it can- not be denied that the large numbers of the lalty think he is right and think 1t q pity that he did not sound the warning note before this hour of the day, 1t is equally true that most of tbe other regulars who carry yalises and want to do business would like to get him on the dissecting table and cut off his head. One of them told q reporter that Dr Lodges letter was a great re- fietclon on the medical profession in Waterbury and that he was sorry he ever thought of putting such thing before the public. Wouldn't Dr Lodge know case of smallpoXY' asked this particular physician, If he saw 1t? 1 think so. If not he should go back to college and remain there another year or two. Every other physician in the city is competent to pass upon such cases and If he questions his own skill in that line this is no reason why lie should endeavor to cast discredit upon others who know their business. Small pox has existed in the different towns throughout the New England states for years, and have no recollection of any town being asked to call in Il specialist to diagnose the cases until now. Tie other towns in the state are not asked to send to Canada for doctors to tell what is the matter with their smallpox patients, and I think it is no boast to say that the Waterbury doctors know their business as well as members of the profession in other places We nave SOlue SOOu rTtuCn QOclOFS UeIe who have reported cases of smallpox, and if you refer to your files you will see where one of them is quoted as saying that there was no doubt in his mind but the patient whose case he had reported to the health officer had smallpox. Why doesn't Dr Lodge and others who believe as he says he does get together and bring a French spe- cialist here? Don't you think the 1 French people would do this them selves if they had the slightest notion that they were the victims of ignorance or hate on the part of the authorities? lOf course, they would but they don't think anything of the kind. I have talked with many of my acquaintances among the French people on this ques- tion and all of them deplore the atti- tude of some of their people on that matter. The French are no fools and anybody who thinks he can make tools of them is deceiving himself"
 Meanwhile large numbers of people of all classes are sounding the praises of Dr Lodge and regard his communi- cation worth more to the people of Wa terbury than all the vaccine virus That J has been put into their arms since Jos eph Diamond honored us by his pres ence in the closing days of last Febru- lary.