The Springdale news., 1914-03-20
SMALLPOX
 REPORTS
pr. F. B. Young Sheds New Light
 On Situation.

pr. F. B. Young Sheds New Light
 On Situation.
 Dr. F. B. Young, president of the State Board of Health, Dr. D. Christ ian, City Health Officer, both of this place, and Dr. H. D. Wood, County Health Officer, and County Judge J. T. Flight of Fayetteville on Thursday of last week went on a tour of inspection through the small pox-infected district in Elm Springs Township. They report that the di- sease has been stamped out and no fears are fealt of a further outbreak. All those having the disease are re covering, and will be released from quarantine within the next three or four days.
 | It was decided to burn the Brown, Holloway and Carson residences, as, on account of the peculiar construe- tion of the buildings, it will be im- possible to thoroughly disinfect them. Petitions asking the authorities to do this are now being circulated. The Phillips home will be thoroughly snfected and renovated. C. L. Monday, Jas. Smith and Will Ferg- Us were appointed as an appraising committee and as soon as their re- port reaches Judge flight, which will be this week, the Carson and Hollo- way houses will be burned. The Brown house will be burned later. The county will reimburse the own CTS of the property.
 Report comes from Lincoln, in the west part of the county, that there are eighteen or twenty cases of smallpox in that locality, but it is in very mild form compared to that which ragged in Elm Springs Town ship.
 Some time ago there appeared in the Fort Smith Times Record a somewhat overdrawn report of the smallpox situation in the Elm Springs neighborhood, and using that report as a basis for an editorial the Times Record intmiated that those afflicted with the disease were possibly not receiving the proper attention. in reply to this editorial Dr. F. B. Young of this city, president of the Arkansas State Board of Health, ad dressed communication to the Times Record. This communication vas not printed, but the Times Re cord wrote to Dr. Young that it was not the intention of the paper to mis- represent any one, and asked him to furnish more specific statement Of the situation, which he did. and this was printed
 At the request of a number of peo- pie in the vicinity of Elm Springs, and in order that all the facts may be known concerning the smallpox situation, The News reproduces the editorial from the Times Record, to- gather with the correspondence which followed. The editorial was headed Noble But Useless Sacrifice of Lives and was as follows:
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 The Editorial. Something ought to be done by the state to stop the noble and heroic but awful and useless sacrifice of lives by the outbreak of the soealled black smallpox" in the Elm Springs naighborhood of Washington county.
 Brothers and sisters and parents are sacrificing their lives to care for their own flesh and blood, know ing that the sacrifice means death.
 The state board of health ought to step in and provide for these strick en people nurses and medical atten tion, which now they lack. Nurses, immune to the disease, ought easily to be found, and the waste of yalu- able lives be stopped.
 In this little community, remote from sources of help. these stricken families are dying off by the ravag es of the disease. They are ignorant of the means to check it and the county authorities eitheir have not been asked or have failed to render help. They not only are ignorant of the ways to treat the sick but ignor- ant of the measures to be taken for self protection.
 If for no other reason than to pre- vent the spread of this particularly yrulent type of the disease to other families in the county ought the state medical authorities take cognizance of the matter
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 pr. Youne's Letter.
 Springdale, Ark, February 27- Fort Smith Times Record, Fort Smith k-I. C