Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-26

metropolitan newspapers of recent date 1t looks very much as if they had commenced to realize that their unqualified endorsement of every thing political doctors, was proving a boom- erang of great magnitude The fol- lowing from the columns of the New York Telegram is a sample:
 "The mGning's news suggests pain fully that oficialdom throughout the country is losing it's head-what there is of ft-over the infantile paralysis peril. The quarantine floId-ups are as unnecessary and as futile as they are oppressive. There is no occasion for panic, nor wild hysteria- Ordinary health precautions and cool common sense are more needed than the hip podramatic activities of policemen trying to live up to the public appe- tite for sensation. It is not open to doubt that nearly all of the things that are being done are without warrant of law. Perhaps a crop of law suits, not only against the municipalities, but otficious individuals, who are in teTferoing with other peoples rights may put sudden end to the crusade"
 This from another New York news paper:
 Tt seems as if it would soon be nec- essary for the common sense of the community to call halt upon the &C., tivities of health boards. The pres ent tendency is to strive for the pro- longation of life by making life not worth living"
 Happily the citizens of Norwich for fifteen years have resolutely combat ted the tendency on the part of the modern medical politician to ride rough shod over the right of the cit izens, and today after the experience of the past summer are able to view with satisfaction the fact that on. every occasion when importuned to get into the modern medical band wagon we have turned deaf ear to their entreaties and been content to ride in the one shorse shay. driven by the family doctor.
 In scanning the news columns of the New York Sun of Saturday last, we learn that Mrs. Anton Ander- son of Jamaica, L. l., had been forced or tricked into surrendering her son, aged 19 months, into the hands of physicians of the health department, and the child taken to Greensboro hospital on suspicion of being victim of poliomyelitis, notwithstanding the family doctor, together with two con- sulting physicians had diagnosed the case as slight lameness following an attack of malaria. The boys fath- CT has retained Lawrence T. Dresser, an attorney, to institute court action to get the child back home. Dr. Will- jam A. Smith, of Springfield, L. l.. is lH0lT 1dLllly pAySlCIcH. I1S ollIu L"O physicians he called into consultation, are said to agree that the child has no sign of infantile paralysis. All this would seem to indicate that old time doctrine that a mans home is his castle, has been thrown into the discard. The Sun remarks that before long the dog will have to take out a permit to bury his bone. Let us hope that this revolt against the arbitrary methods of the gang in charge of American Medical Association marks the beginning of the end of medical tyranny which has characterized the opening years of the twentieth cen tury. We must look, however, to the intelligent citizenship of the nation to make this hope into a reality. It be- hooves the taxpayer to turn deaf ear to thei rdemands for funds under the plea of protecting the dear pub lie from the onslaughts of microbes" 7" etc. With your kind permission MT. Editor, I will publish later in your col umns, the New York Suns editorial remarks on the arrest of the Anderson child.
 A. w. DAVIS.
 Norwich, Sept. 25, 1916.