Show ENFORCE THE HEALTH LAWS It is Kiatifying to note the determination determi-nation of 9a Lake Citys Board of Health to enforce the laws which require re-quire persons exposed to infectious and contagious diseases to be retired for those afflicted with these dhicascs to be quarantined and to report the existence of disease to the city health 1 authorities The spread of smallpox throughout the city by persons who refuse re-fuse fo be vaccinated or to report the existence of the dIsease or be quarantined quaran-tined IB simply outrageous Neglect to I comply with the laws or refusal to do so fOI any reason should be severely punished This thing of taking lives by the spread of disease when it could be inevented deserves swift and severe se-vere punishment No excuse should be accepted The Board of Health should and no doubt will act promptly There are a few simpleminded persons per-sons whodo nol believe in vaccination Their mental horizon id generally near the ground Then there are a few persons per-sons who do not 1IIOW that they maybe may-be vaccinated without price by reporting report-ing to the city health authorities Again there are others who are indifferent indif-ferent who do not care for the result so far as other lives are concerned Again there l are those who go about the city with deadly l disease germs upon up-on them who fancy the fact will npt become known All such persons should be behind the bars for a term after they have served In the pest house The Board of Health cannot be too rigorous In enforcing the laws to prevent the spread of and suppress disease Guilty lawbreakers should bo sought out and punished There is no good reason why smallpox and kindred diseases should prevail here so much of the time |