Show NEED EMERGENCY HOSPITAL It ta is the judgment of Health Officer Wilcox and most of the reputable or oC Salt Lake that tho ot of an emergency hospItal to whIch cases of c diseases e other titan smallpox can be taken constitutes a 3 menace to the public health It Is to present the situation in such ft a wa way M as o convince mot most o observers that the thu nt for tor an dIsease o exists Several tithes tiDies recently It hiss has that tran In Salt Lake scarlet arlot Lever eer or other quat diseases There Ix Is no to take such cases Obviously It would be Improper to take tako them to the tho smallpox hospital In that case they would be e exposed posed to smallpox In addition to the tho other malady and this patients would woul 1 bl be exposed to diphtheria scarlet Carlot fever or whatever r the Patient wa front from No one will NUl argue arUe the of keeping disease patients in public and house Is away always the possibility amounting to zt a certaInty ot of spreading th the The Tho public does not nat and cannot know how many ot of those CASes hoe have been kept in hotels and rooming houses housos Those Thole near the paU patients ts know kloW there thero Is Isi i no place for them to go no place where the they a right to go o Consequently the disposition is to conceal the tho exist existence enco ence ot of the tho disease This involves in infractions fractions of the quarantine for It If th existence ot of the tho disease Is not I admitted naturally no quarantIne rule ruIe can be observed The Tho eXp ot maintaining an em emer emergency r gency hospital at a convenient point would not bo be considerable Dr Wilcox points out that a cottage can he be bought boughtor or rented and a 8 Installed at a 3 ama cost The services of the nurse would o not be required continuously In Inmost most eases cases it would be found that the patients Were abundantly able to IH pay for nn any attention given them Enough m m Y might be taken in jn In tills this way to pa pay not only the tho of the hospital in pay cases but to meet the cost of oe caring for those unable le to pU pay the matter should ho be looked into by the the prop I council committee at the earliest po moment V V |