Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1907 — THOSE FAIR OAKS DIPTHERIA CASES. [ARTICLE]

THOSE FAIR OAKS DIPTHERIA CASES.

Editor Democrat:—We would like to have space in your columns to offer a defense in regard to the the criticism that is made in Tuesday’s Rensselaer Republican of some of our citizens. The worst is bad enough without adding anything. Now it started out to desisting of himself, wife and daughter Lulu |and baby and others. This daughter has been dead about two years. The Shultz boy who died, would not take medicine from Dr. Fife we understand, but would from their Medaryville doctor. He would have taken the latter’s medicine but he came too late. It also states that Mrs. Warren died of diptheria. This is a mistake, as she was getting along fairly well with the disease and was out of b&d sitting up when she had an attack of heart failure which took her away. It says Mr. Warren persisisted in going about the streets endangering others. Now we believe Mr, Warren did nothing more in that respect than any other man would have done under the same circumstances. They were quarantined, but there was no provisions made for them to get anything to eat and he had stock that had to have care, and no provision for their care. So he had to do something. They say nothing about one other family that was quarantined in this place that have nothing to look after, that paid no more attention to the quarantine than Mr. Warren’s. Some of them were down town every day during the time, and furthermore one other case in town was not quarantined at all. It says that Dr. Fyfe worked heroically in the cases. Now we feel that if Dr. Fyfe had done his whole duty he would have had the first case quarantined and stamped out the disease in the start. They also say that the excitement is at a high state. Now, from reports, it is not so high here as it is about Rensselaer. We feel that if Mr. Warren’s needed guards the other family needed it too, consequently this expense has been uncalled for. Now we feel that Mr. Warren’s made a mistake in not taking medicine just as much as anybody does, from the simple fact that all others taking medicine got well, but we simply want to give the facts in the case as we know them, Bert’s litttle baby has a very bad attack of inflammation of the stomach owing to having to change its food. It is being treated by Dr. Fyfe. A Citizen.