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Show trouble of patting up the yellow flag. . In another column will be found a communication from the Quarantine Quar-antine Physician that speaks for ' itself. We believe in the old saying to "give the devil his due" and we want to see every man, woman and child enjoy the rights and privileges priv-ileges that justly belong to them, and we don't balieve in proscribing anybody's liberty, unnecessarily. That is why, we started our reporter re-porter out, and our "readers should know" that the fact of the place being "quarantined" was all the "reliable information" that was necessary from that "one quarter," but it was other evidence that he i was after. If it had been measles why did not some of the other children .of the family or those with whom the affected child associated asso-ciated with, both before and niter the occurrence of the rash, come down with the measles? Is not the fact of there being no more patients in that vicinity conclusive evidence of the fallacy, of the idea that it was measles? Even the Doctor himself does not say it was measles, but throws the responsibility of the place being quarantined on the shoulders of Mrs. Bryson and her sister. We think the Doctor wrong in regard to his duty as Quarantine Physician. As we understand the duty of such an officer, it is, when notfied of a contagious disease in existence, to examine the patient to see if the reputed disease really does exist, and after he finds it is really as represented, then his duty is to "quarantine," but if, in his opinion, there is an error at stake, and no contagion prevails, ho must not abridge the liberties and freedom free-dom of his fellow beings. If those are not the proper duties of a Quarantine Physician, then the office of-fice would be better abolished, leaving our city as it used to be. We have no doubt that if Mrs. Bryson had adopted the suggestion referred to and called her "physician" "physi-cian" she "would not now be laboring labor-ing under the idea" that she "had made a mistake" for she would ljave called on one who would, undoubtedly, have diagnosed ' the case in its true light and administered adminis-tered the proper medicine to cause the disease to depart, and saved tho Quarantine Physician the |