The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28

SOME FLAGRANT CASES
Oereliet In His Duties and Permitted
unpr'ntabIe Practices to be
Carried on by His
Staff.

Limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-That he fail
ed to maintain an effective safe
guard over the health of the port OF
New York, and, as health officer did
not give anything like an intelligent.
honest and efficient administration
OF his office, are the reasons assigned
by GOV. John A. Dix, today in demand
Ing the immediate resignation of DR..
Alyah H. Doty, since Feb 2s, 1907. in
charge OF the quarantine station here.
me governor In lengthy letter to
Dr. Doty states that every allegation
mas been proven against DIR. Doty. in
clnding the charge that as a result Of
the inefticiency of the doctor and his
associates, 1T was providential that
cholera and other dreadful Infections
diseases did not gain foothold in
this country"
Dr. Doty is a republican and as
serted that the charges brought
against him We're for political reasons.
lie did not personally appear before
the governor to answer the charges.
ana DIX, in commenting on this fact.
: SAID that he did not do so "becansa
the charges were unanswerable.'
Charles N. Bulger, the commissions
!. who investigated the charges, in his
report stated that the Doty adminis-
tration was guilty of misconduct ex-
: travagance, dishonesty, depraYfty and
e. immortality and the governor. in his
t letter states From the evidence he
j. must believe that the findings were
r justified
In his letter Gov. Dix says in part:
i Immoral and lewd practices were
II lndulged in by the orderlies and other
servants with emigrant women and
girls while in quarantine and much OF
this evidence is so shocking that it
cannot be given to the public. The
evidence also shows condition of
squalor and uncleanliness In the
I. rooms where emigrants are kept that
shocks ones sense OF decency and
make one ashamed of his country.
In addition to these outrages Gus
toms were permitted which seen
positively inhuman. Orderlies were
- permitted to carry the bodies of de
ceased children from the hospital ts
the morgue in their arms. Whenevel
this occurred, the orderly being
obliged to pass through open grounds
mothers who had not seen their sicl
children in the hospital and did no
know their condition, followed th
orderly Historically weeping and wall
Is ing and trying to pull off the GOVERNS
to ascertain whether the body wa
that of their own child
at appears also that children wer
in brought to the island, populated in tn
main by people who had been expose
to plague or smallpox, or cholera, @
other contagious diseases, either fo
medical treatment or temporary deter
ton, with accompanying mothers, e.
posing the lives of these helpless an
innocent people to the dangers of col
tamination
1T is charged and admitted by yo
!. that you received liquors, hams an
other articles from incoming shiI
~ which you were to inspect. The a
No ceptance of gifts under such circur
. stances, while not necessarily di
. honest, is so manifestly improper {
:, to call for condemnation.
- There has been the grossest failul
under you, either to establish or
maintain the real quarantine wh't
~ the law and the welfare of the cou
49, try demands at the port of New York