Show AN E EPIDEMIC A OF SMALLPOX Mistaken For Manila Itch It Spreads Over Salmon City 4 BUSINESS tf AT A STANDSTILL It i DB C t GAISON HELPS PS 1 CHECK C CH THE mE DISEASE t As a result of the visit to t Salmon City Ida I Ja by Dr C M 11 Garrison of this city the quarantine guar which this state has been maintaining against county Idaho has hs h s been raised Dr Garrison returned r to Salt Lake yesterday HP Hc iI says s ys yg that on arriving at t Salmon City he found the clans there had diagnosed the cases of smallpox as IlS Manila Itch When they learned of his presence In town they announced that smallpox was raging Dr Garrison found Instead of there being fifteen cases as reported there w were re at t least fifty people suffer ing from that disease and they are still BUll ill JU There have been two man and a woman No efforts at t quarantining the town had been made and people with small smallpox smallPox pox on their faces and bodies were walking walkin E the streets Dr Garrison says that the whole town of Salmon City and practically everybody In the county has been exposed When the authorities tho learned of t his presence there a meeting of the town board was held and It was agreed that the quarantine regulations should be placed In effect at once Members of the council are re acting as policemen and five additional il patrolmen have been engaged to see that the rules are obeyed The proprietor of the stage Mage line the only means of communication with the outside world has agreed greed not to carY carry any tny an persons from the town unless they an can show a clean bill of health He ITe will also refuse to carry mall mail from houses houg where there is the least suspicion that the disease exists Christmas Festivities Off Dr Garrison says the town Is dead Vid nd all Christmas preparations have been abandoned The proprietor of the stage line estimated that his business had been beon damaged to the extent of at least by b the presence of ot the epi epidemic epidemic epidemic demic and merchants m of the town have suffered su in the same sanie way Dr Garri Garrison Garrison Garrison son thinks the physicians were In earn earnest earnest earnest est when they diagnosed the cases as Manila itch Only one of them had ever eer seen a case of ot smallpox and that was wa during the civil war warThe warThe warThe The disease had Its ts start from a man who went to Salmon City from Idaho Falls In September to visit his father inlaw He lIe had bad been there only onto a short time when he developed a case which was ai rapidly ra communicated to members or Partially recovering started on a trip through the county with a threshing machine scattering the disease A waitress caught It In town tram from fr m te rite t e family first infected and from he hoe tile the rest of the town was infected infect d dRan Ran Ban Short of Vaccine There was little vaccine In Salmon City CIt and It was soon used up A large supply has been sent for and the entire town Is to be vaccinated When the first death occurred th the people began to think that if It was not it ft was something equally as dangerous and consequently the under undertaker undertaker taker had a hard time finding some one oneto oneto oneto to assist him in burying the victim Several of ot the first cases were very severe but b t subsequent ones are light Dr Garrison thinks that In a few weeks Salmon City will be ready to again communicate with the outside world |