Show PROVOS ROYOS HEALTH IS 1 GOOD Citizens ns Object to Recent Sent Out Concerning Sani Said Sanitary Sanitary tary Conditions Provo Dec Dee 30 About fifty representatives tives lives citizens cUzens of Provo met yesterday aft af afternoon t at a meeting called by President Irvine of the Provo Commercial Commer ial club to consider the matter of an item that ap In one of the Salt Lake morning papers to the effect that Mayor Frisby and City Physician Slater of Provo had called for assistance In enforcing the health laws rind and nd had reported that In six suits flied filed against offenders by the health officers here three had been tried and acquittals secured and the re report report report port went on to say It Is ls admitted by byall byall byall all concerned that the nuisances com corn complained complained of are unsanitary and dangerous to the public health This under the th headline A Cry for Help the Provo people and the meeting was called Dr F E Clark who came down yesterday esterday morning moning as a of ot the state board of ot health and Mayor Frisby were present Dr Slater was not It U is said he ho was not Invited ed President Irvine stated the object of the meet meetIng meetIng Ing big Dr Clark was asked about the origin of the report and stated that Jr Dr Slater Slat r had communicated with Dr Beat Beatty Beatty ty and asked for Instructions as the th state board of ot health had previously no notified notified tilled the local board that if the slaughter ter houses were not Improved and certain fain tain other made the state board hoard would take action in iii the matter This would be done Dr Clark said but buthe buthe buthe he proposed to have the local authorities attend to it Mayor Frisby had hud not com corn communicated communicated with the state board at nt all in inthe Inthe Inthe the matter Dr Clark in answer to a question stated that the city was in good sanitary condition except that the th inside of some of the business blocks needed attention Mayor Frisby who Is also hairmon of the local board of ot health explained that one reason that the local board beard had ha taken such action as it had was because the state board had threatened to bring suit against them if the they did not do something with the slaughter houses Ht HE H had taken the position that the city could attend to the matter without the of th state board A number of persons spoke expressing regret and indignation that such a report should go out and the fol lot following following lowing motion by Judge who made a characteristic denunciatory speech was wan earned That a committee of three be ap appointed appointed appointed pointed to ascertain if possible the author of this damnable libel on City Judge R H A Barry and D H Thomas Thoma were appointed members of the committee Considerable discussion was devoted to the suits against business men for main maintaining maintaining taming nuisances nuisances en cn their back prem premises and it was shown that only one of the three tried related to a matter health helth condition permitting water to accumulate on the ground The Theother Theother Theother other two were vere for storing rubbish on the premises The intimation that th Jurors did not decide the cases Justly was strongly resented N City Marshal Henry HenrJ on an intimation that the mayor may had caused the tile suits to tobe tobe tolie be lie brought read an order Groer from the city council instructing hm the marshal to enforce the ordinance against the nui nuisances nuisances nuisances complained of as an explanation of why he had made the complaints and stated that he had become tired of oC the he lie had received from the cit city for Or two years for failure to have the or ordinances ordinances ordinances enforced and began begun the ac actions lions A number of speakers voiced their in indignation that a report reflecting on the i sanitary conditions of the city cit should go I out and were of the opinion that Provo I could do her own cleaning up In the matter matt r of the slaughter houses all who knew anything about them ad admitted admitted I that the he conditions were bad had J 3 C Thompson one ne of the proprietors stated I that he was building a new slaughter slaughterhouse slaughterhouse slaughterhouse house as rapidly as he could get men and materials and that but for the great demand for workmen he be would have had his new place completed He also al o stat stated stated stated I ed that bad as the Provo Prove slaughter slaughterhouses slaughterhouses slaughterhouses houses were they the were no worse than some in Salt Lake Dr Clark admitted that there was room for improvement in Salt Lake Lain but that district was outside of his jurisdiction President Brimhall of oC the Brigham Young university stated as evidence of the general health conditions being good that out of the nearly near 1400 teachers and students In the university there had been no deaths and only a few cases of fever and these had been traced to causes an antedating antedating the arrival of oC the students here Joseph V Farrer of the board of edu education education education cation reported that of the public school schoolchildren schoolchildren children numbering between 2500 and coo there had been only two cases of diphtheria and one case of oC scarlet fc fe fever V ver William McCoard ard urged caution that the Indignation expressed express d at the report be benot benot benot not construed ed as blame Hame against the health officers rs because he lie believed they were i ion the right track and should be sup SlIp supported on ported President Irvine also stated that the Commercial club favored and would support the health officers in th the per pcr performance performanCe fo ance of f their duties Dr J E Talmage Js is here from Salt Lake visiting relatives Apostle Teasdale ws here bere today toda and In the tabernacle spoke B F down from Canada via vis visIting relatives Mr and Mrs Harvey Ross have ar aI arrived arrived rived from Richfield to attend the um tini V A marriage license has been issued to toJ toj A Johnson JW J V Whiting and Harriet t both of Thomas Fork In the case of Spanish vs Warren In m the fourth Fourth district court defendant has entered a plea of not guilty guilt and the ease has been set for Jan 15 In the divorce suit of Catherine Keysor vs Joseph Keysor Ke sor defendant has been be n month tern Plaintiff 5 a ordered to pay pa alimony |