Show I IN x NON PARTISAN MICROBES 1 Mayor Clarks administration of municipal affairs does not seem to give that general satisfaction Us friends predicted and those who were largely t responsible for it are among its severest f se-verest critics now The nonpartisan committee com posed of P H Lannan John Henry t Smith C C Goodwin et a pledged themselves to select none but officials i of approved fitness and experience and declared in their signed address to r the public that the citys servants and employees should be selected for these qualifications and no others Then they nominated John Clark for mayor and pledged him to that platform What was the result John Clark was elected mayor He made his appointments ap-pointments forced them upon the council with the aid of the combination I schemer and bulldozer who was his chief backer in the campaign He named John T Caine a superintendent superin-tendent of waterworks He appointed James W Ure sanitary inspector < He appointed Dr Keogh health commissioner com-missioner He named the present board of health for Salt Lake City Mayor John Clark made all of these appointments Mayor John Clark Is also exotnclo chairman of the board of health Is there any question as to where rests the responsibility for the unsanitary itary condition of the city Scarlet fever is here It is spreading Twentysix cases arc known to the health officers now How many are hidden no one knows Four deaths have been reported within a few days And I the worst of it Is that diseases like this prevail where the sanitary conditions a poor where the health of the public pub-lic is neglected where reasonable precautions cautions arc not observed Scarlet fever like typhoid is preventative and there is no excuse for the alarming hold i is taking upon this ordinarily healthful health-ful city What is the matter In the language of the nonpartisan address upon which John Clark was elected mayor and ex officio chairman of the board of health heaUhI is better to tell the truth now even at the cost of advertising our misfortunes mis-fortunes than by concealment and inactivity in-activity to rush swiftly on to further suffering The water Is full of microbes the system is inadequate to the needs of the city the work of improvement has 4 been stopped by a injunction the men who helped put the superintendent of waterworks into office claim now that he is incapable of discharging the duties of that office the nonpartisans I are accusing each other of incompe teney the sanitary inspector duties are n lee the board of health is not devoting as much time and attention atten-tion to the welfare of the public a it is expected to Mayor Clark seems utterly terly helpless he fails to show even an intelligent appreciation of the gravity ity of the situation In the meantime officers are kept busy nailing up quarantine antine flags and enforcing quarantine regulations little children are suffering parents a grieving and the dread disease > dis-ease whose worst effects are not always ways covered up in a coffin continues to spread An exchange is authority for the I statement that the increase in this 1 malady is 125 per cent over two years ago or before the present health offi cers were installed Mayor Clark as exofflcio chairman of the board of health and his appointees ap-pointees Ure Keogh Fisher and Brooks should see to it that the sanitary sani-tary conditions of the city are improved 1 at once Heroic measures to prevent the contagion from scattering may be necessary Then those capitalists who are interfering with the construction of waterworks improvements should withdraw with-draw their injunction suit give the laboring la-boring man a chance to go to work to earn money with which to pay his doctor doc-tor bills and premit the city to finish the undertaking before summer comes again with its dust and short supply of water 1 |