The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-24
Chatsworth.

| On Sunday morning, August is, our
local physician was called to residence
here, and pronounced the patient as
diphtheritic, and wanted to inject anti
toxin Immediately, but the parents OF
the boy refused permission, as they did
not believe in it, whereupon the physi-
clan retired and another living at dis
lance was sent for. He declared he did
not know what the trouble was, but on
being informed of the diagnosis made
by the first physician, sent smear from
the throat of the patient to the laboratory
of the state board of health at Trenton.
On the following Wednesday he received
word that an examination of the culture
determined the case to be diphtheria,
but as the boy had died and was buried
in the interim, speculation and regrets
were futile, and you would suppose an
effort would be made to eliminate fur
ther calamities, but such was not the
case, as the father of the boy goes to
work as usual and the brothers and sis
tiers of deceased played on the street as
if nothing had occurred. On complaint
of several of our residents the local ply
sician tried to have our town committee
men (who run true to the description SO
APPLY related by Miss Kite) establish
some kind of quarantine, and finding
them impossible" telephoned con-
ditions to the state board of health at
Trenton, and they promised to send
down man. He must still be coming
as he has not arrived yet.
The lesson inculcated by this news
item is as follows: A family in Camden,
New York city, Philadelphia or else
where, purchasing some of the edibles
sent from this territory, may fnd that
some member of their family has con-
tracted that dread disease, diphtheria,
and the local officials Immediately start
; running around in circles to discover the
cause, when, as in the present instance,
the focus has been established in rural
community, through professional ignor-
ance, local official culpability, and state
official ineptitude to the dangers which
affect and confront a helpless commun-
l ity endangered by a hidden foe. Now
: for the moral of the. story. The first
physician was engaged during last term
= as school inspector at 800 per year; the
second physician, on the day the boy
was buried, sent in his application to
take care of the five township schools
j, for $45 and our school board is about tc
appoint him because he is the cheaper
man.
n For number of years this commun
ity has been cursed by the activities of {
! number of real estate sharpers. To illus
trate: one company purchased a. trac
n for 5000, and during the year 1914 tool
/ in $65, 900, and the tract is not fully dis
. posed of yet. A Philadelphia news
v paper tried to obtain subscribers by offe l
ing lots here free with each subscription
s but failed dismally, whereupon few in
a. dividuals formed company and ar
v selling the same lots in the larger cite
: at from $500 to $500 each, and are credit
y ed with having taken in over $3.50, 90
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Every one seems to be acquainted wit
~ those business activities except the locs
n squire, tax collector and tax assesso
and incidentally, the county prosecute
~ With the appointment of new JustiC
y of the Peace a short time ago, fe
Nv timid souls, who had been done SO brow
r that they smelled sflokys applied to hill
for consideration OF their troubles, an
the surprise of getting judgments for IL
IA frauds perpretrated on them must ha'
ri converted them into peripatetic adve
tirers, as the squire is receiving reques
m from Maine to California to bring sui
by where the correspondents realize he
"a they have been pillaged. The 'squi
ed also receives some gruesome threats 1
interfering with vested interests
na tween South Park and Woodlands
and is seriously considering chucxing
BIS. the appointment, as his mother "ne'
les raised him to be a lawyer" 1t is due
er- John Kelsey to state that since his 9
or pointment the activities of those real
tate banditti have lessened.