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Show IRA P0E RERif TO DR. WILCjf Tcllu Why tho Health Conuni3,S Looks cm Him. aa Jfo Gsn-'lr''" tlemon. WrM IRA POE. the Commercial wfmW restaurant proprietor who waiTOrM to tho peethouse, with a casVw smallpox after paying a physflflP 515 to treat him at home, and whoHL denounced by Dr. Wilcox boforiHS Sanitary committee of tho Council lndlnant over tho criticism he ha?- eelved. It had boon reported that PcMt-lfl over the monoy behoving the phya wns an employee of the- Health dejKu ment, and wao astonished whonV pest wagon came and carted him onjK. Dr. Wilcox declared that '9E physician was not sent to Poe-'s ftH by him, and that tho physician!!'! offered to pay back the 516. less mS k two visits. This Poo declares tMW groundlee. Dr. Wilcox alix dccllru that Poo made no provision forWW family, was generally worthleMlBV 'no gentleman," and ralred a dlstMW anco on hl3 release from tho pesthM "I wont to say this much," said mi X that the phjTJlclarr represented hlaSV to bo from tho health office, and l7& him tho $16, so behoving him toWl When tho pest wagon camo for rmLv Di-otosted against going, but whenSV attendants threatened forco I yljRV I had a sick child at home and Imi sired to remain there and be ircatM "Dr, Wilcox stated! to tho Co3R that I had been offered my money-iffcv which Is faloe. No ono offered to r.W mo ono cent. Ho alfo said I am )ioV at all, and that I neglected to tiK vldo for my family and that tho couM provided for thorn whllo I was awW This Is abfolutcly false. My wife )S plenty- of funds when. I left. I nnviHl to provide all necessities for my f&nMl But suppose I had not. It was n TV two weeks after I was taken away J f the houso quarantined, before any K called to ask If anything were nei - My child might havo died so far u lfT Health department was concerned,!' t my family have starved. & it "Dr. Wilcox stated that a woman?' been found in tho houEe, brJ ' quarantine. Will you toll me how7 family could llvo unless some W brought them; provisions? Dld-i L, Health department offer to aflslstf wife and sick child? No, they shJi for two weeks for themselves ex for tlie kindness of neighbors. V "I feol I havo beon greatly wrom 2 and to bo kept from my family ana nounced as I have been, I can not 1 (f feeling indignant. Most any man. feel llko Ufilng violence, as I felt, w I got out and loamod about it. c "It makes mo smile when I hear f howl about the woman who broui d my family groccrletj exposing othi 2 when 1 remember that whea ah j spector camo to eeo whether or n ? had smallpox, ho woro on the stri U the some clothes ho woro when! ?l looked mo over. And to think also; was not a physician and knew no m O about omallpoxx than any ordinary jj( son did. pi "I waa ire the pocthouse three vr fc' and Dr. Wilcox mado but one vl 'j Then ho examined mo fifteen feet aw I Another patient suffering Intense p J was examined and prcpcrlbc-d for fo 1 teen feet away. Jac k Lovcles3, aiiot patient In tho pcBthouse, wanted! Wilcox to go to ecc his child, andt " doctor replied, 'Havo you got the moi i to pay for If." 2 "I'll tell you I have a right to' y sore, and I ask others If they, t y would not feel like raising a racket A ter hearing how Indifferent tho hal officials had been to their families' ui dor such unfortunate circumstances it really do not hco how I kept from go farther than I did." r,j! |