The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-19
DR.. COBB is ROASTED
No Worse Now Than For the Past
Two Years.
A LEGACY BtQUEATHED BY SoANIARDS
Secretary of the State Board of Health, DR.,
R. H. Lewis, Comes in For Share in
Scathing Rebuke Administer
ed by Or. Herring.


son county settled this small pox"
question more than two years ago, and
had it not been for the case at the
Briggs Hotel, and the persistent asita-
ton of the subject by DR.. Lewis, ana
absolute fasehoods told by interested
parties, Edgecombe, Nash and Wayne
would not know that we had the pest.
1t is no worse now that it has been for
the past two years, and it has gone to
these other counties-not from Wilson
but From going to and fro in the earth.
and from walking up and down in it,
just as it came to Wilson.
Another cause, possibly, had some in
fluence in stirring up the present
nephitic brouillerie-WILSON HAS
RECENTLY BUILT TWO MORE
FINE HOTELS.
AS to Mr.. Nunn's complaint that it
shut up his hotel, he is more responsible
for that than any one else, for travel
ing man who was told that small p0X
was in the house, said, IF you have
nothing worse than smallpox, ! will reg
ister," and another who was advised to
go to popular boarding house told me
that he preferred the hotel with its
smallpox to the boarding house.
This pest has never yet stopped a man
from coming to Wilson who wanted to
come. and if other towns and counties
see fit to quarantine against AIS we will
try tc make arrangements to stay at
home; but when our neighboring town
and counties get rid of it, we will be
glad to know by what means, so we may
guard against future outbreak If it
gets to Raleigh-which we hope it will
not-then Dr. Lewis will have an oppor-
tunity to display his skill in throttling
an epidemic.
1t is said to be now at Asheville,
Goidsboro, Rocky Mount and Roanoke,
Va, and a special from Goldsboro to the
News and Observer of Monday says:
'Summerlin, the young white man who
had what was pronounced smallpox in
mild form, gave the quarantine officers
the slip Friday night by means of
back-door exit and is not perambulating
in these parts just now. Thus our city
is relieved Of it's smallpox patient
OH Doctor Doctor, Doctor w. H. H.
Cobb, Is it possible that you cannot
quarantine one poor sick fellow, down
with the loathsome smallpox, and then
talk so loud about quarantining Wilson
"a place where they kill folks if you
crook your finger at them? Or, Doctor
w. Fl. H. Cobb, did you turn him loose
on purpose that he might spread this
hell O a Diseases For pity sake,
Doctor, get the saw-log out of your own
that how RI ~ n
splinter from ours.
Mr.. c. Markly, a contractor from
Roanoke, now in Wilson. 20 bid on our
stret-paving contract, says that in Roam
Ckc there arc now 120 cases in the pest
houses: that it has been in that city off
and on ever since the Spanish war, and
that no one pays the slightest atten-
ton to it, more than to isolate each case
as it develops. In all this time they
have had two deaths only, one of which
was complicated with pneumonia and
the other woman in child birth
Our official list of cases this morning
"wednesday, is SO, yet it was told to the
Sheriff of Nash that we now had 500,
and Sheriff Kicks has been making that
statement upon the authority of c. +.
Moore, whose firm was paid In 1899
S575.30 fer vaccinating. At a meeting held
in Rocky Mount yesterday for the pur-
pose of forcing Wilson county to do it's
duty, or else to quarantine against us,
DIR. Wimberly stated that this man
Moore told him a few days ago that in
the town of Wilson there were from 40
to 100 cases. and in the county from
300 to 500, with 100 infected houses in
the town, only one of which had b'cn
fumigated; that the pest was on the in
crease, and no means were being taken
to stop it. Now the public is at liberty
to believe this tale, or to believe our
town authorities in their report i'lst rs
they choose. but it is we'll to remember
that the Good Book says, God blinds
the eyes and hardens the hearts of wick
ed agents and sends them strong de-
lusions, that they may believe and lie
and DC damned.
That this frogs and lice canker is
legacy 5cqueathed to this country by the
Spaniards when they vacated Cuba and
the Philippines, there can be but little
doubt Its distribution has been from
Maine to Mexico. and it may now he
found in almost every State and Terri
tory Of this Union. It's synonyms are
multiple, and it goes by as many aliases
as any thugs picture in the rogue $ gal
lery-small- pox, chicken-poX, Cuban
itch, elephant itch, frambesia and host
Of synonyma form then aliases under