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Far the Sentinel and GazetteMessrs Edit oh# -—We obitrve in your paper of this morn mg, another article on the put-house Wall you grant a little indulgence to 11 u looker on in Venice’*—a hitherto silent but interested looker on, to my a few words?The alledged fucla stated by JDr Selby were eppaling and adapted lo arouse the deepest sensibditjeB of the human heart 1 lie reply of Q IX purports to deny Ibe l/utli of the Doctor's representations and to maintain that the pest-house is and. has be on a very comfort ibta place for the sidzj nncl conveys the idea that non© of its inmates have suffered or need suffer Bui there 11 a draw back to ih h ataUment, which evory one who bus a ransom ig faculty or a human heart, must painfully fool on perusing it it do abcti odi in quibbling evasions bo unbecanimg in a member or a learned profession nod of the Board of Health, to both of which lie is well understood to belong, that its augmentative fore* is entirely destroyed as well as confidence m ils rigid truthful ness, while the light atid heariloss manner it) which he evades the question at issue by recommending attention to roads and bridges, iustantly annihilates all confidence in his statementsThis uuphilosophical und unfeolmg evasion of the question at issue is so complete that the matter will stand in Uio view of the pnbhc, just where it did before That question is “ m the puathouso in a condition to render it a safe and coinfbitable iiboda for those who have the misfortune to bucomo its inmates’’* (i D has said nothing that ippioaehos to a satisfactory answerWo fool authored to state, that at least quo member ur the Board of Health is piepured to toblf\ that one of our estimable utwons came to hm death there by suffering from cold and want of attention, and whul seems if possible worse, that Mime children are to bo added to the catalogue' If this be so it isn startling—a horrible far t, which should electrify the whole o ty *Wo are also informed that the attending Phy siciau has dec hired that thero have been times when it was impossible to Jicop the Ibe upper roomn in a comfortable temperature for the sick or well Many others ar# assert i;g lb a same things from persona, observation ]f sucli lias been the ease, an wo have not yet seen the severest pari of the wrntor, t may bo again sron in greater degree Those uie things about which the coimiunnh have a right lo onquuo and i0 be ward because it is a mutter jil which they have u duep prronul 1 uioieBl, uud a deeper interest! still, icsting on the brood basis of a common liu- j in u in hWl hope what w» have said will not be inter 1 pelud into hostility to tbo Board oflioulth We hiwe no vncli Re hug* Wo would not insinuate that they have not done the best they could under the circuniBlancos But if tJioy liavo not the moans to rondei the unloruuiate Hiinatos or the postliouse comfortable wo know that our Citi/Diis, when informed of the fact, will promptly supply the means required We cannot bat expreee the hopo, however, that the Board will do themselves the justice to disclaim the “heartless” aiticle of this mum jug, by one of their number, Q I) ONE INTERESTEDSaturday, lumiary 1st , 184B
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Daily Sentinel and Gazette
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Jan 04, 1848
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