Show TiE QUARANTINE CASE Dr Seymour D Young Gives His Sitle of I Salt Lake City June 2 To the Editor of The Herald In this mornings Tribune appears a statement something like the following Dr Young pleads guilty of violating 2 a health ordinance Sentence suspended on a promise from the doctor to do better bet-ter or be more careful for the future I desire to Inform my friends through your fair columns that this statement of the Tribune Is a falsehood that I cannot callow to pass unnoticed In the first p1ace > then I have never yet violated a health ordinance neither have I been in the least degree careless in enforcing quarantine regulations to guard against the spread of contagious diseases wherever wher-ever and whenever my attention has been called to the same ca1e I presume the statement In the Tribune I grew out of the fact of my having been arrested yesterday on a complaint of the health officer 9f this city Dr Beattie The misunderstanding between the above C named officer and myself grew out of the following circumstances On last Monday 1 i was called to see a sick child in the Second ward and upon my arrival at the v 1 house I found a gentleman on the front t porch who stated when I drove up to > i f 4 z d < the door that he was waiting for me and wanted to know if he would be permitted per-mitted to nail up a flag as he had come down for thattfurpose I bad teiitl man wait u t I had examined the case and then I would give him an answer On making my examination I was not fully satisfied as to the nature of the disease and advised the gentleman with the hammer and flag that he had better wait until the next morning and then I would notify him a to the kind of flag he would need I felt perfectly justified In waiting for the further development of the trouble for on consulting with the mother I found that the child had only been taken ill the evening before and in the meantime caution led her to keep all persons out of the room and to prevent children from coming near the sick child and that as soon as the nature of the disease was determined upon and should it be decided as contagious a flag would have to be placed on the house and the family quarantined On returning to my home later in the day I met the same gentleman at door who informed genteman my me that he had been ordered by Dr Beattie to return to the house in the Second warcf where we had before met and that wara he was instructed by the doctor to put up a scarlet fever flag I asked him if he were working for Dr B He replied that he was and that he would have to obey orders I said I the flag that you propose to put up tonight proves to be the wrong one I will take i down in the morning and notify you of what is needed in the way of a danger signal On going to the house the following morning 1 found the case had developed into an undoubted un-doubted case of scarlatina and so did not remove the flag which Dr Seattles man had nailed to the building the night before be-fore When the warrant was read to me yesterday I was very much surprised and still my astonishment was increased when I learned that the said wat rant was issued is-sued by Dr Beattie health officer of the city CltI immediately hunted up the doctor and informed him that there must be some mistake some misunderstanding on his part The doctor stated there was no mistake that I had resisted one of the health officers in the discharge of his heaIh ofcers duties in that I had prevented him from placing i a yellow flag on the patients residence I resi-dence when he had been sent for that I i purpose After some explanations we referred 1 re-ferred the matter to City Attorney Van Horn who recommended that to meet i a technicality that I should go with him into the police court and there Plead guilty to resisting an officer in the discharge guit resistng charge of his duties and that he Mr Van Hprn would recommend that sentence sen-tence be suspended and that Dr Young be discharged According to the advice of Hr Van Horn I pleaded guilty to resisting resist-ing an officer and so I was discharged I after Ig complying with this as City Attor wih afer Van Horn termed it technicality 1 again reiterate that never have I been careless in recommending and enforcing quarantine regulations and sustaining the city ordinance in helping to suppress and stamp out all contagious diseases even going further than the ordinance requires physicians to go for not only do I attend at-tend to the carrying out of the quarantine quaran-tine regulations as required by the ordinance tIe ordi-nance but I instruct the family alwa sand s-and in every case how to disinfect every room ever house and how to protect other members of the family from con i I tracting the disease and in all cases assisting them and personally supervising the cleansing and disinfecting of their premises 1 Hence I brand the statement that Dr Young plead guilty of carelessness in observing quarantine regulations as an unqualified falsehood Very truly and i respectfully your t respectful SEYMOUR B YOUNG M D t |