Article May 25, 1899 Issue

A Great Uproar

Gotham is in a great uproar. It seems to be agitated from center to circumference. Official New York, at least, as represented by the Tammany Board of Health and some of its officers, has put on its war-paint and taken the war-path. It has given a startling war-whoop, and with tomahawk and scalping-knife in hand is on the hunt for all the "irregular" healers of disease for the avowed purpose of annihilating them. It proposes to raid the so-called fashionable as well as the so-called unfashionable precincts of greater New York. It will spare none.

The Board of Health, through its president, has instructed its inspectors to arrest and prosecute indiscriminately all who attempt to heal sickness or relieve pain of any kind or nature, without the use of drugs, narcotics, or poisons of some sort or description, duly and regularly administered by the members of the medical profession thereunto appointed. It is naively announced that the medical profession will assist.

Nevertheless, even thus early in the campaign, unlooked for obstacles have presented themselves, and a formidable public sentiment in opposition thereto is developing with great rapidity. Divers and sundry serious objections, some of which are believed to be unsurmountable by many others than Christian Scientists, are being raised. It looks as if the Tammany army of extermination, if it carries out its declaration of war, may run across many thousands of the denizens of New York who have serious objection to being exterminated.

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