Letters addressed to the Board of Health, and to Richard Riker, recorder of the city of New-York : on the subject of his agency in constituting a special medical council / by James R. Manley.

  • Manley, James R., 1781-1851.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Letters addressed to the Board of Health, and to Richard Riker, recorder of the city of New-York : on the subject of his agency in constituting a special medical council / by James R. Manley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Public. The following letters were written and published in the Even- ing Post, in the order in which they now appear ; and they are merely printed in this form, to redeem them from the fate which usually awaits the fugitive files of a newspaper. It is not the me- rit of the letters, the character of the Recorder, or the personal interest of the writer which has prompted to this course ; all these are of small imporrance compared with the view which they pre- sent of the manner in which the public business has been transacted during the late season of pestilence The public have a right to know, and now as they have leisure to inquire, it is proper that they should know to whose agency they are indebted for a Special Medical Council, and all its attendant expenses. It is now well understood that their appointment, and especially the manner of it, in place of calming the excitement existing in the city, had an effect directly to defeat the end intended to be answered, and was productive of distraction in the Board of Health, distrust without it, and confidence no where. If there are any readers who are in- clined to censure the terms in which I have spoken of the Recor- der, I only ask that they will take into the account the outrage- ous provocation which I have received from him. For myself I can truly say, that 1 have not written a word which 1 do not be- lieve, nor have I assigned a motive which he will presume to deny; and 1 trust that the time is far, very far distant, when conduct such as his, with motives such as I have shewn, will be allowed to impair the tenure of any office, except his own. J. R. M.