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• For tht Sentinel Sc (3**ctic. ;Mn, fiDrro*:—Perjrsit me throng the columm of your paper* to cell the attention of our diizeav, lo the prasem condition and management of the Peat Houiq established by the city authoritiea* it is reported by respectable and creditable witnesses, that the building js entirely unfit for the purpose for' which it 2a now tised—■Lliat in its present unfinished state, it is impossible lo secure lhat aveu iomporntnie, so important in proper treatment of the small pox ; and that the eaten - | ^ion bestowed upon those placed there ia not such • afi humanity demands they should receive. Have the citizens inquired into this? Can they say ihnt they fajow whether these things arc ao, or 1 not? We do uot call in question the conduct of the Board of Health, or the city authorities, under whose direction that establishment ta conducted, it Tftay possibly be, that they have done al I they could under existing circumstances; but duty to ourselves demands that each citizen give this subject a candid and impassionnto investigation. Will we do it? We a#k, if our fellow citizens who are so unfoTtuunt* ns to take the small pox, are to ba forcibly drugged from their homes* and the care of kind friuds, -utl placed in .such an o»labU*hm*»t as the Peat Huso of this city now is, are w« justified in permitting SL? Wo ask if any of those gen tie men, whoso duly it is to superintend this thing, can candidly say that they think a member of their families would have «y fair a chance of recovery from the is mall pox» in the Pest House, -is they wouhL at home? Jus-tico and humanity detnaudv that this establish “ ment should be made such, that uny chance o-f getting well, after being carried there will be, at leant, as good, ub though per.urtted to remain at ho mo i either moke it inch, or ceane to compel our citi^eud, to consign children, wivoa and* friends to a charu^lhouse. It becomes not uny, under such n visitation of the Small Pox \.q boi iindifferent to the‘provision made fox the sulfci-ing. God, nature ar.d reason, tell us, to be beware liow we trample upon the nnfommule.MANY CITIZENS.(f*(i'11_____ ur^i___.......... TJ . _______
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Daily Sentinel and Gazette
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Dec 25, 1847
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