The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-29
OYSTER BAY IN GENERAL UPROAR:
 AT QUARANTINE


 citement at the meeting of the town board yesterday, where villagers pro- | tested against the stringent quarantine ordered because of infantile paralysis, the members of the town board left | their chairs and the citizens took
 charge of the town hall and adopted l resolutions placing blame for the ter TOT and loss of business on medical pirates"
 John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were excoriated as tempting physicians by giving them an oppor- tunity to achieve notoriety and money from funds. Col Roosevelt was sym pathized with for having lent his name to the cause of the medical bandits" and the citizens demanded of the town board that the "medico-maniacs be discharged and the officials return to Common horse sense" view of the situation.
 Long Resented Health Rules. For a month residents of Oyster Bay have protested against "the stringent rules, especially that which permitted the health officer to re- move children from their homes to the isolation hospitals if, in his opin- ion. they were afflicted with or showed symptoms of the disease. A few days ago four deputy sheriffs and two phy- sicians forced father to let his child be taken away.
 Many residents claim, partly sup ported by physicians, that children teethtng and with summer complaint have been rushed to the isolation hos pitfalls against the protest of parents. When the Town Board met yester- day the hall was damned with angry fathers. Dr. w. E. Caldwell of the State Health Laboratory at Roslyn assured them 1t was necessary to re- r,ove as we'll as to quarantine all sus- pected cases. Dr. William J. Burns, town health officer, reported the epi- demic we'll under control When the physicians had left angry fathers wanted to know why their c!l'idren had been diagnosed as having the dis ease and their houses quaranttned when it had developed they were not suffering with the disease.
 Town Chairman Joseph Steinert tried to restore order, but the excite
 mant grew so tkat the board with
 drew. Col. Henry M. Bennett was
 made chairman and committee was named to announce the views Of the community.
 The resolution recites that the community, through the intriguing
 and propaganda of certain so-cailed
 medical and scientific men, had been gradually led from quiet, peaceful law-ahiding community. to 2 'state o1 exci,ah:lity, frenzy and even terror, o1 a mysterious bug, germ or miasma. which the resolution asserts, "e11sts
 solely in the minds of. paid coter1e
 ot rublic servants whose business F i to find such things to further the sale | of their nostrums." Then follows this l paragraph:
 Blame Tempting Funds" | whereas, through the inspiration
 and incentive which great endow- ment offers to most ambitious men
 MT. John D. Rockefeller and MT! Car negie, actuated by a desire to return
 a small measure of good for the mil lions which they have cxtorted from ; the common people, have seen Tt tc
 set aside from their unearned incre-
 ment a stupendous fund which mo mi tcrobe, germ, bacilli or even an honor
 able physician could overlook"
 The resolution concludes. after point ling out that before ''the medical pro-
 fession demed it necessary, for gain
 to change the name from the misno' lmer-infantile paralysis-to poliomye' | litis," and commiserating with "tha
 great heart, Col. Roosevelt" for hay ling unknowingly aided in the propa ganda of the medical profession. That it is the sense of this com
 mittee that the credulity of the pubNs
 has been preyed upon sufficiently lont
 in this neighborhood. That the busi
 ness interests are sufficiently para
 lyzed, that frenzy and terror has beer
 sufficiently propagated, that 1t Is higl
 time for a return to common sense
 the discharge of the medical mantacs
 the resumption of local business, thu
 recall and restoring to confidence O our easily scared summer resident
 and the application of common hors'
 sense to the so-called epidemic t. (which we, as we'll as other communt
 ties, have been afflicted"