The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-07

Communication Received by Fathers
Asking Them to go to He'll" Might
Influence Action.

petition is said TO nave Deen cir
culated by a committee of the medical
association, asking the city council to
remove DR.. J. Ellery F'ales from the
position of health officer and appoint
some physician with whom the mem
bers Of the association can work in
harmony. This move comes as the Gull
mination of trouble which has beer
brewing for several weeks.
For some time past there has been
friction over the enforcement of GER
tain quarantin laws and ordinances
relative to birth and death certificates.
When by reason of this friction the
health committee of the council, mott
fed physicians of Walla Walla that
they would be expected to live up to
the letter of the state law and the city
ordinances the doctors felt they had
been accused of violation of the laws,
and a communication, read at last
Tuesdays meeting of the city fathers,
from a member of the medical pro-
fession, invited the mayor and health
committee to go to He'll"
Animosity Pronounced.
So pronounced was the feeling OF
animosity at one time that DR.. Fale's
legal representative was denied admit
lance to a session of the medical as
ISOLATION and at the following meet
health officer from membership.
Within the past few days another
difference has arisen through the &C
ton of the health officer in ordering
a child said to be affected with disease
to remain away from school: the board
Of education, two members of which
are parcticing physicians, Immediately
nullified the officers orders, and told
the pupil to continue her studies. The
case was then placed in the hands of
the city attorney, and matters were
being considered in legal light. when
the doctors circulated the following
petition, to which were attached the
signature of all of the leading pTac-
titioners of the city:
Ask His Removal.
ITO the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of Walla Walla:
Gentlemen: We, the underst gned,
physicians of Walla Walla, finding it
impossible to work in harmony with
the present acting health officer, j. E..
Fales, respectfully petition your hon
orable body to remove him and appoint
in his stead some reputable physician
with whom we can effectively cooper
ate for the best interests of the health
of our city,
Attached to the communication,
which was filed with City Clerk T.
D. S. Hart yesterday morning, and
which will come before the city council
at its meeting next Tuesday evening,
are the names of the following MEM
bers of the Walla Walla medical frat
ernity: N. G.. Blaloc4I. E. E. Shaw. j.
c. Cack. S. c. Brigham, w. E. Russell,
Walter M. Ely J. w. Summers, M. A.
helms, G. B. Stewart, H. r. Keylor,
Y. c. Blalock, A. w. Ely, ]. F. Crop,
G. P. Cannon. B. Thomas, c. E. Mont
gomery, F. c. Robinson and c. n. Suit
tner.
Just what action will be taken by
the council is, of course, impossible
to determine in advance, but the
hearty support which DR.. Fales has so
far received from the mayor and the
members of the council together with
poetry previously addressed to them
will no doubt make the petition hard
nut for the Getty Fathers" Remarks
made by prominent citizens yesterday
indicate that the names of several ply
sicians appear on the list, because they
are members of the medical association
and not because they have any per-
sonal grievance with Officer Fales.