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Show ! SMALLPOX IS ABATING. According to exaggerated reports that have spread in surrounding states. Salt Lake is alive with smallpox pa- ' tients. The report has gone forth that the streets are full of people broken out with the disease, and that it is reaping a harvest of death. That these reports are believed ia indicated by the action of the mayor j of Montpelier, Ida., warning his citi- ' , zens not to come to Salt Lake during , conference, tor fear of bringing thu disease home , with them. He urge.- them to give Salt Lake a wide berth. In Colorado the same reports are going go-ing the round?. A commercial traveler trav-eler who was billed to come here was told that it meant a case of the dis- j ease for him if ne came. He was told ; that patients stood on every corner, rode in the cars, and that the disease was very malignant. He wrote to his house, refusing to run, into such a hotbed hot-bed of disease as Salt Lake was reported re-ported to be. Under imperative orders , he came anyhow, and was surprised to find that he couldn't find smallpox patients at every turn of the road. Disease in Mild Form. The facts are that the disease is in a very mild form and it is being well hand!d by the quarantine officers. There have been very few cases of death from the disease, and it is not anythinc like so prevalent as these wild 1 reports would have it. Dr. T. Fj. Beatty of the state health board doesn't see why the mayor of Montpelier is advising the people of his district to beware of catching smallpox small-pox when they attend conference here this week. He thinks it behooves Salt Lakers to look out for the Idaho people. "The mayor says that smallpox got started there from cases brought from Salt Lake." said the doctor, "but a a matter of fact lots of the smallpox here came from Idaho. It got so prevalent preva-lent in some of the counties and was allowed to run so rampant that a quarantine quar-antine had to be established against one . county. They have more of it there than we have here, and I don't see why they are afraid to come here. They had better be afraid of catching it right at home, and we are the ones to look out for them- Where Real Danger Is. "We didn't send the disease to 'them, but if they come here from places infected in-fected by the disease where no quar-antine quar-antine is observed, there is danger of them bringing more of it here. They have no cause to fear more of it there because of a visit here. They hav plenty of it already, and in some of the places at least they say it is only 'Manila itch,' anyhow, and don't amount to much. I suppose, though, j that they simply want to pay us back in our own coin for quarantining against them." City Health Commissioner King says that if the Idaho people would lay aside their prejudices and be vaccin- ated they could come to conference without being in any danger. |