The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-05-03


iealth OF kentucky.
Gentlemen: have recently received |
a local paper and found an article o. !
criticism upon you and the Elliott
County Board OF Health. This criti
cism was made by the Commemorative
attorney OF tho s2nd Judicial District
upon our action TO control a prevail
Ing epidemic OF small pox in our coun-
~. He and the judge ignored our de-
mands. and after seeing that he had
erred he then attempts to criticise the
board. The Elliott County Board Of
Health has never passed an order that
would be a disgrace 10 any Kcntuck-
ian; our efforts have been TO protect
the Innocent people from the ravages
OF disease All members OF the Board
are law abiding citizens and are inter-
ested In the people and not In the po-
iiticai world as are our attackers. There
are three medical members Of the
board who consider the medical pro-
fession so superior to politics that po-
litlcal measures never enter our duty
As / have before said, there Is small
pox in Elliott county now and has been
at one time in the latter half Of March
at least 80 cases. at the time which our
board requested the Court TO postpone
its term II WAS truly misrepresent-
ed to Waugh. agree with him on
that proposition He never toured this
county and went into the houses TO
see what was happening. II was not
misrepresented TO him by an official
member OF the Board but by a two-by-
four outsider. / being County Health
Officer the law requires me TO see that
the orders Of the board are obeyed- i
| informed Cisco by letter on about Mar.
1lth. also informed the County At
| torney TO telephone him the situa-
/ ton. He yet ignored an appeal to pro-
tect the public Upon his errisai at
Sandy Hook informed him PERSONAL
lily OF the situation and the action TAX
en- by the Board OF Health 10 protect
the people among whom have been
raised and greatly Interested In their
welfare He ignored my request and
replied by saying This = The term
that the Jury wheel must be filled and
besides we can do more with small pox
i than you can" He then walked into
the court house and ordered the jailer
TO ring the bell and cDurt convened
| Then the Board sent him a written no
tice signed by the chairman and Secre-
HEEN0u
i refused TO obey the order. The gem
eral public was imploring me to do
something to protect them from small
pox. I said Il looks like am powerless
but I will telegraph the State Board
OF Health. / did - and talked over
long distance to a supposed member OF
the Board. The Board OF Health was
| In session al the Sselbach and immedi-
4 LIS. lnr md
ed OF Il In the following way. They
appealed to the governor. The COVER
nor by a Telegram I'd Cisco which
have been unable to get SO far. but II
was reported 10 say. Take the PROPOSE
tion up with the Board" He ignored
this II IL was in II and as n result the
State Board OF Health quarantined
our county. / know that when ] APP
pealed TO them that the hand OF JUS
tice was somewhere In Waugh's at
tack on me and The State Board OF
Health he demands an apology to Cis-
co from the state Buard OF Health and
tries to make me out an outlaw. Such
a demand from my standpoint OF view
n equal to . demand for pardon in
cold blood murder.
The legislature has given us the
tempted to protect ourselves but fate
was against us. The highest judicial
i official OF our county refused to rec
ognize us as the County Board Of
Health The northern half of this
/ county borders on the Carter county
side. the home OF Cisco and Waugh.
from whose borders for the last two
wears an occasional outbreak OF small
pox has come The State Board Of
Health knows OF the trouble they had
at Olive Hill to suppress small pox
There were some deaths there. We
have the good fortune 10 not have a
death from II yet but considerable
financial loss and untold suffering.
Vaccination is taking pretty well
among the people
AS to Waugh and Cisco's information
received from the sheriff viii say that
he had been exposed to small pox but
was Immediately vaccinated- Upor
the first day OF court was the ninth
day after exposure. He informed the
Judge by another man. as he refused
10 enter the judges room after having
been exposed and the Judge sent him
the reply, .Tell him to come on in.
that we are small pox proof here
The sheriff was admitted and then
what followed do not know. But he
remained in court expecting to break
out every day.
Waugh has alleged that some mem
bers of the Board were expecting in
dlctment. Even though l am a mem
Der of the Board can say that it is
clear OF offenses. At any rate II we
were expected to be indicted Waugh
and Cisco have failed TO do their duty
again as none were indicted. ! consid-
err this accusation as black lie as
tongue OF mortal man can utter and
am sure his angel mother mus e wor-
ried over such a procedure by her son
John
regret that the SIND Judicial Dist
rict has a Commonwealth ATTORNEY
that would want to subject her limo.
cent people to the ravages OF disease to
protect Judge in order that he might
be In the judges good graces- / only
ask that our records be compared
Come to our dockets and compare them
and see who will have to answer tc
| the greatest crime when the roll is
called. We have never released a fell
ony committed in our county Not by
hearsay. but to my personal knowl-
edge. the following tragedy occurred:
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