The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-01-25
THE TRAGEDY OF IGNORANCE.


rOn another page we copy from Twin Falls
Times which announces that a Kimberly
ed because he neglected to give his 13yearod daughter
ferng from pneumonia proper medical attention. The
phl ian called and he together the
to investigate They found eighteen people
cooped up house and the probation officer
told the father that unless he permitted them medi
cine he would have to him.
pid: If the prayers of the family her. doe
tor can
There you have it. tragedy of committed
that little home Kimberly that day The
death Of an innocent vcma sweet 13-year-old child
superstition of medicine and superstition of religion
FLASHED and child died. the death being the
of father the stupidity of probation of
fcer Tie county physician evidently died the road out
there he to have drfed from the entirely
VIII the people never learn that there is dey presiding
this earth and that only operates through natural laws
and human agences2 If child lies il with pneumonia the
skill Of guide the forces of its its self
healing added eighteen people
erowdn that tworoom home would never have wrought
The person fault this whole tragedy the
county PHI sician From what learn of him. and
must be of those pirates who inest the medical craft
who illness that affcts man that under
notice opportunity work off the afflicted home the
services OF physician and trained nurse when had hes
impulse that should animate the heart Of the phys
noting the need and the destiution that doubt
vailed that little home he could have advised with the par
the end that the life of the child might have been
saved Had there been kind heart that horde Of
captious and indignant neghbors could have been
provided the child tucked between clean, blank
could have breathed the nvgoatng air amid the
of comforts The physician could have assisted
immensely that little household had he wishedhad his ideal
been that Of service.
cat that cramped home at Kimberly should have
been opened the foodgates of light and truth and love In
stead what do find: Ignorance, superstition, bgotry
and deatha woefu tragedy The end may be
imprisonment of the ignorant faherthe victim OF the bigo
try and Ignorance OF man
Seemingly the Caldwell jumped conclusion
and ubsantaed by facts else II
guilty of publishing misleading account Of this pathetic
iden The News observations having been ere
falls county by Of the actions attributed to ITS county p
probation officer is only fair to people and the OIL
as eenured that the facts IN this case be again repeated
be
which this handled against the assertions OF The New
has had competent investigator verify ITS informal
feels tina voueh for the accuracy OF the following a
nents.
If is of course unimportan there twelve people
ID up in the little Kimberly instead of eighteen At the tin
he county physician arrived the girl dying condition
pneumonia but from two other causesan accumulation
blood in dep portions of the lung and auontoxicaton
result of the bowels act thus forcing the body to
sorb its The cause OF D0th OF these cOhuohs can DC
a st in to the girls position not having De
hanged days The posmorum examination verified
accuracy OF he physicians diagnosis
oed but interfere with the laws which He ms
esab accumulation OF blood and autonoXc
ion
The New is quite right saying the child should have be
made a with plenty Of light and fresh ar
The News rong assuming that this not done exact
what was m by county physician and the probation officer
the earliest possible moment
Twin Fas county will not in the ability Of its phi
can to any county the state and the county physician nj
that n in his profession in this county lie has served
the lsthmus OF Panama ana III various pdS o
limited having connected with both government ana
waite hospital physician who assisted moving the girl to
spa and fully approved the taken as the best pos
under the M INSTANCES affoding the only hope that remained
saving the life has just been reelected president OF the soul
80 I5oLo NJ i;ca association This mentioned only becau
e Of M ethics of the medical profession which quite ensi
ur thai physicians refrain from notOrety Is ma
f n 10 the county physician to have conclusions drawn
te ties are not upon fact and because in this nstan
the community suffers well the physician in question