The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-29
Sedttle'S Blood Test
and Quarantine
ny pR. EDWIN :. ERowN

Because - the extreme importance
~ tails question ~ quarantine and %
the vital Necessity and Eruss benefit
Of such an institution 10 the race and
20 the people 90 our nation. and hc
cause ~ the Misrepresentation and
false statements. which aru very iiH-
bic 70 create n prejudice IN tho minds
OF the people. Notwithstanding ! am
following tho Instructions and re
quest Of a superior Court Judge. I
am going TO write a series OF articles
30 az TO lay Tho facts before the PEG
pic o. this city and atat1 In order
tina; they may know the truth in re
iaiion 10 H~n;ti-'s quarantine and
blood test. upon which some people
are falsely imprisoned There are n
large number. I would say. possibly
30 TER cent. OF the individuals who
are Guaranteed that are proper per
sons to be quaranunrd and who will
b. greatly benefited physically. men
tally and morally " they receive
proper treatment and care. but guar.
anunc officials should not themselves
violate the law and thereby cultivate
IN our city and state a disgust for
The institution of quarantine.
These articles viii b. published at
ms own expense I Fhall tell what
quarantine means and what ltn In.
tended purpose ". I shall also en-.
plain fully and toll wha; tho blood
test ia and explain tho unc % the
wassermaun test ln diagnosing and
q . d
most dreaded OF al diserssses. shall
between the different
stages and tell when syphilis would
b. eonta Eioua and infectious.
shall tell all about Seatlc'E
stockadc and deacrib. the awful con.
ditlons existing there.
l shall tell about tho quarantine
headquarters where women are kept
I shall tell Of Home cases that have
been taken out OF quarantine in this
city when they were in an infectious
stage and how others arc auaran.
tined who are clean.
shall tell what tho Writ 81 Ha-
bcas Corpus means. How g was
wrung from the kings whose heads
had to come or before the people Sc
cured this right
shall publish tho petitions Of
those / represent the return Of the /
Health Commissioner. tho answer Of
tho petitioners and the affidavits
which have been sworn 20 by the |
Health Commissioner Of the City Of |
Seattle.
shsll tell OF the lnhuman treat |
mcnt TO which persons who have /
been guaranteed have been sub |
jccted and place tho responsibility /
where IL belongs.
shall toll Of tho filthy surround. /
inEs and OF the rodcntridden quar-. /
,ers. swarming with flies and fifth. |
In which men and young boys. who |
arc mere children. are quaranuned |
ut the City Stockade.
Hhall tell OF ono instance where |
n young man WAS bounded about and |
put into Jail and kept for five to six |
days without charge against him. !
by one OF Senttle'E wise noble. hu.
name and omnipotcnt policemen; with /
no place TO lie down except the hard /
cement floor. ana given practically 1
ibtHlilE W eat anu lluhllF lfitaHehs ]
| shall tell how men and women l.
are put into Seattlo's alleged auaran. I
tine and "blackholc." mistrcnted and I
starved. until they yield to treatment /
whether they need 1t or not
| shall tell how people are grabbed |
by police officers on pretenso that /
they are violating one law and then |
taken and given the blood test and |
luarantined because the police are /
unable to get any evidence Of the OF. /
Tense for which they desire To con /
Wet the person.
shall show the extremity TO /
which the Health Department has /
been forced to 20 TO save themselves |
from exposure and the righteous |
wrath of public condemnation.
shall answer fully tho accusation |
Of DIR. Thos. ID. futile, Secretary OF |
the state Board OF Health. made be. |
fore the Womcn's Legislative FEEDER. |
alton OF King County at the Frye |
Hotel. on Monday, July 22nd. 1918. /
when he said that most of the won.
IN Guaranteed were feeble minded /
and incapable Of becoming useful cit
zcns
| shall write on the kind of Hos.
pital King county and Seattle ought
10 have. and tell why we have not
got It.