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Show SALT LAKE CITY AND HEALTH. To Dr. Meacham, formerly of this city, is e the credit of stamping out the bubonic plague In the Philippines. He organized a warfare upon It compelled a Board of Health to follow his in structions, with a result which was an astonish ment to all who watched the achievement. Worn out by the incessant labor and care, just as hk triumph came, he died. But if he was able in the tropics, amid thj squalor and the ignorance of the lower Malayj and the Chinese to eradicate a pestilence, what excuse is there for the continuance of diphtheria, smallpox and scarlet fever in Salt Lake City? AD these diseases should be disposed of utterly with Jn three months from this data; they are all din to unsanitary conditions. With the condition! removed, the diseases would disappear. The Citj Council would have to give the Board of Healtli almost despotic powers, but it would be right, for the purpose behind it would be to save h& man lives, and the vast expense of sickness and funerals. With every house and cellar and yard cleansed, and when necessary, disinfected, and then a watch to prevent those attending upoi the sick from communicating disease to outsiders the work would be done, and it would be worth vastly more than it would cost. It would not only save life and expense, but tho result would be an advertisement for Salt Lake as the healthiest health-iest city in the United States. While on this subject, it is interesting to not? the efforts in this country and abroad to arrest consumption in its earlier stages, in sanitarium? established especially for that purpose, and to regret that a great sanitarium has not been established es-tablished at the Beck's Hot Springs. It is true that could some man or company purchase that property and build there and equip a $500,000 sa& itarium of the highest class, and provide to have it conducted on the most modern enlightened me, it would be the greatest success In tlm rld. In the Hauteville (France) Sanitarium, the iff is composed of two doctors, fifteen nurses uns), and half a dozen cooks, and the account ys the cooks are regarded as about the most portant members of the staff, for to people 10 are ill, the food put before them is of the st importance, and the way it is cooked Is a ntrolling factor. Utah needs a place in which ie sick of the world could find respite, for Utah the only spot where all the right conditions wail; such as a perfect climate, springs, the Rters of which have all the medicinal properties und at the most famous springs of the world, id with a little added expense, hot and cold salt Rter baths could be provided. There aro a indred persons in the East, either one of whom ould be glad to purchase and improve the place they but half realized its possibilities. i |