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Show Small px h" nppea'v-d in Mor-ran comity on the line i.f the U. 1'. Railroad, Rail-road, at Mount Cr.-een, Weber city and Morjm city. The cae, ?i far, arc F'!v. but ono is one too many if it ml'l bo avo'd At Moir.in city there is no Lo:-;-! L.il to which patients are promptly removed, when they show symptoms of the disease, and where they are properly cared for. A few days nop a younor man fri.iu Monran county v.'jnt t work tt the U. L'. railr oa 1 d. p jt at O,' !en, and wm soon after taken ;ek with the disease, dis-ease, bavin,' uio-c likely fairied the infection with liim. Dr. Murphy, from this cry, was called on to a'.tei) ! him, who went to ()-'den for the pur- pose, spent a short time there with the sick man and returned to this city by the Utah Cjutral, tli3 young man being sent by the I. I', tridn to .Morgan. .Mor-gan. 'Jlie.se are the facts in this instance in-stance as far as we have been able to obtain tliem, and they seem to show a degree of culpable negligence with regard re-gard to the spread ofihis terrible disease dis-ease that deserves cou-ure. The send-isi.ij send-isi.ij of the diseased man by train to Morgan county imperiled every one v. itii whom he was brought in contact; and we would ask Dr. Murphy if he wis justified in ihling in the cars with- the yd'.na clothing on that Lad been cs nosed to the contagion? Physicians have to go to many places an do many things, in the exercise of their professional duties, that in others would be inexcusable; and thou ;h Dr. Murphy may have been required to personally ex-vi-o himself to infection lor we ii'iderstand he never had small pox we think lie is not entirely excusable in exposing olhers in such a public manner to the disease, by bringing them in contact with c'othing that had been at least one night in the apartment with the in livid .i ll affected. Wo learn, too, that among the Chinese, on ihe railroad in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Ogden, a d:sease somewhat some-what similar to the yellow fever has nude its appearance. Whh the rapi 1 means of transit now so general, the spread of su;'a contagion is certain to be of an alarming character, should it break out any.vhere near the lire of travel, and the most stringent regu hit ions possible should be adopte.1 to prevent it. We hope precautions wid lie speedily taken, where such has not been done, to prevent infection from spreading in all places which are liable t j be visited by persoas who might be exposed to it. Scieti!i:i: investigate ns have established estab-lished that kifeeti.ms matter is thrown off in the atmosphere in countless numbers of minute parades, which are iiih aled with eveiy respiiatioti and j Listen on the human sy-t -in. vhi'e j they wiil settle on arty ar'ie'e of ! clothing that may be exposed t a th:i; ! and thus disease can be tranmit:.e l from an affected per-en to others ;.r a j disttitue, even while the indivi duals ' thus carrying it might not bo alf cted themselves. Thisiswhei-e.it se"ms, the danger lies in he case of the medte-d g'.mtiennn referred to, and ail who have to be arm 1 where such infectious diseases are, should take every precaution to avoi 1 e-.ir.-vim; tie; ' contagion in their clothing tj other j places, by having it pivpor'y fumi- I gated. 'liie luatter is a serious one, and i v. iiue we have no tie-ire to excite j unnecessary alarm, we believe ih.it no ! time should be lost in adopting measures meas-ures to guard against the presence and spread ot'eoutadous diseases of every kind. |