SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 6 September 1913, Page 6

SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

A PROTEST FROM HAMILTON

[Per Press Association.] Hamilton, September (5

Tho Times publishes an interview with the Mayor in reply to the. Health Department. Mr Manning states that all he said was true in evgry detail. What the natives really regarded as a joke was that the official visit should be made a fortnight after their wants were attended to and after being allowed to suffer for some months. Shifting the responsibility on to the hospital hoard was only an excuse, and an easy way of shirking their duty. Had a sub-inspector been placed in each infected camp, the natives could have been restricted to pahs and there would have been one of the present waste, extravagance, and uneasiness, while proclamations issued by the thousand throughout the country would have heen unnecessary. The Mayor insists that hut for the assistance rendered by the local bodies the position Would have been very serious. The Department should have adopted a strong and definite policy. The officers had rightly burned the clothes considered infected, but had not supplied the natives with anything in .substitution. The result was, as late as last week, there was an appeal for clothing, which had to be supplied by charity, conclusion, the Mayor said he would like the Depnrtmenet to state who was in charge of Morrinsvillo isolation camp and why it was broken up. : .