Show BOARD OF HEALTH DOSNT MEET Smallpox Situation Encouraging Vaccination at Eureka The State Board of Health Intended to meet yesterday morning but as only I Drs Bealty of this city Pike of Provo p and Wilcox of Nephi were present the i I meeting lacked a quorum and no session ses-sion v V1S held However there was an interchange of views uhlch showed I I that the board as represented especially especial-ly I by h the members present was strong 1 1 I ly I In favor of compusory vaccination I But at the same time owing to lack of power this could not bo done except I in so far as the Board of Education might refuse to allow children who had not been vaccinated to attend school The doctors emphatically condemned the course of the Desoret News In Us opposition to vaccination There were no reports except one from Eureka which reported these persons per-sons quarantined January 1th to Oth with their respective families George Proctor M Hlnchman Mrs J T Sullivan Sul-livan Spencer Palmer Titus Billings Mrs Beard Mrs B Goodman Mrs McMurphy M Jackman with a man named Riley under surveillance at the pealhouBo and 1 boy James Foster at home The report said Vaccination I I Is being generally resorted to especially I especial-ly for children The people are yIelding I yield-ing gracefully to the situation and aid I the authorities In any effort made to check the spread of the disease Dr I e W Clark has been appointed City I Physician and he is prompt In enforcing enforc-ing quarantine I hope the State board will consider the situation and not make our burdens greater by putting out city under quarantine Signed George Ryan member Board of Health Eurcka Of the fifteen patients confined In the pesthouse but two are In bed Mrs Samuelson and Mrs Hobbs These two are now In the confluent stage The rust are convalescing and eating their three dally meals The Board of Health reports no new cases of smallpox In Salt Lake |