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Show NORTH BENCHERS EXCITED. They Insist on a Better Enforcement of the 'Quarantine Herniations. Thre are a number of people living on the Xorth Bench having families who are very indignant over the manner in which j tho health ordinances arc set at defiance. So i excited have some of them become that the j fjuestioa is being agitated among some of holding an indignation meeting. Many parents have become so alarmed over the prevale. e of diphtheria and scarlet fever that they have taken their children out j of school and will not permit them to stray beyond the precincts of their own dooryarcls. Cases have been brought to their attention where contagious diseases have existed, and those suffering from them have cither died or gotten well w ithout the houses ever being (juarantined or the public being apprised that any danger existed iu the locality Other instances are pepor.ed. where houses have been flagged, and yet the inmates in-mates go iu and out aud mingle wiih other people on the streets and in the cars, knowing know-ing they are carrying diseases with them everj-where, which are nearly always fatal. One case in point was heard of toda-. In a bouse on O street a child w as said to be ill with tonsilitia. Another little girl who was in the habit of visiting the house daily to procure milk was stricken dow n this week with diphtheria, and it has since been learned that she contracted the disease iu the house where she got the milk. On N street there is a tenement house I which has been quarantined where there Is a virulent case of diphtheria, and yet some half a dozen men come out of the house every morning and ride down town on the ears to their work. It is such instances as these, which are alarming the people of that neighborhood, and they are asking what protection the health ordinances give them, and whether the simple placing of a yellow-flag yellow-flag is of any use in preventing the spread of contagious and deadly diseases. City Physician Hall denies that there is an unusually large number of cases of cither diphtheria or scarlet fever, and says his department de-partment is most vigilant in its efforts to prevent the spread of those diseases. He lias heard of several instances of violations of the health ordinances, but those who are j free in communicating the information to him, decline to make a complaint so that i.t can be made a matter of judicial investigation. investiga-tion. There is one case in his office now w here all the evidence goes to show that a physician had a diphtheria patient, aud who never reported it so that the house could be quarantined. Should the evidence iu the case he conclusive, that doctor will be dealt with in such a manner as will cause him to remember it. "The health ottiiie," Dr. Hall says, "has no special police to guard a bouse to see that no one enters or comes away from it. All that can be done is to quarantine it as the law directs, and then to trust to people's discretion and sense of honor to seclude themselves until all danger of communicating com-municating the disease to others has passed. For the enforcement of that precaution, no one can be depended on but the physician w ho has the case under hisjprofessional care. t |