| Show 1 THAT TERRIBLE SCOURGE I I The Miserable Sheet hint Excuses Lack of DIplitlicria 1recau 1 tfoiiH How Insults the Community In the interests of a disgusted and indignant t in-dignant community a DEMOCHAT reporter I called the attention of twenty intelligent business men to the miserable and self committing article published in this mornings Herald under the head of That Terrible Scourge Many of these gentlemen said they had not seen the City Hall organ and did not care to read its bigoted and untruthful talk as they knew of the present extent of diphtheria in this city for which tho quarantine physician isinostly accountable for neglecting neg-lecting to do his duty Every person living ithhithis citj d nB J Apast few months is fully aware of the gradual dissemination of diphtheria from house to house with many fatal results The Herald has continually cried down any occasion for alarm or timely precaution in preventing further spread of the dangerous dan-gerous disease This morning the contemptuous con-temptuous halfbreed pauper sheet has the face to insult an entire community by recording ten sad deaths from diphtheria the past thirty days with others fatally sick to acknowledge that greater care should have been taken and then tell the sorrowing parents of all the little ones who have died from the disease this season or are now struggling strug-gling with death that all talk about a scourge or reasons for alarm under the existing circumstances is nonsense It is general talk among intelligent persons of feeling ana respect that the Herald is the most unprincipled and disreputable dis-reputable excuse for a newspaper that was ever permitted to wear the name in a decent community There are no proper restrictions put on households where diphtheria is known to be raging Children Chil-dren with clothes infected and throats tied up are allowed to visit neighboring families and come down town shopping where they unavoidably come in contact with other children and spread the fatal disease broadcast The four quarters quar-ters of the city have been infected with the disease this year Many have died and new cases arc continually presenting themselves and yet the Herald would denounce all needs of guarding against the scourge and tells its readers that the quarantine physician and other public servants it upholds are right and the whole community wrong It does but little good for the defunct concern to toot its horn in the ears of respectable people |
