Show I Jlll REPORT I ION I-ON DISEASE I I IN LEMHi GOUNTY I Dr Garrison Goes to Investigate I Investi-gate Smallpox Situation tI t I I I SENT BY BOARD OF HEALTH 1 J J I I Idaho Doctors Declare Affliction Is Not Smallpox I I I I I I Say Story Was Started by Mining J Experts Who Wore Fright i encd by Boys yIn I j i In order to ascertain the facts intho I case regarding the reported epidemic of smallpox n Lemhi county Idaho the State Board of Health yesterday sent Dr C M Garrison to Investigate i and make n detailed report of his find f Ings In case he decides that the prevalent diseaseIs actually smallpox I vigorous measures will be taken to en force the quarantine and no person from the Infected district will be al lowed to enter Utah If however tho local authorities In Idaho establish a I quarantine and isolate all the cases of the disease the Utah Board of Health will lift their Quarantine CALL IT IMPETIGO A few days ago the physicians of Salmon Sal-mon City Issued a sir ed statement In which they declared that the disease reported re-ported to be smallpox was In reality dhoblc Itch or Cuban Itch Now It ap pears they have revised this opinion i I 1 and have come to the conclusion that I I Impetigo Is the affliction that is sully ing the name and fame of their fair I I city to say nothing of the cuticles ot I the Inhabitants DI T B Beatty yesterday yes-terday received the following letter from one of the physicians at Salmon aI City which is selfexplanatory DOCTORS LETTER I Dr T B Beatty Salt Lixke Utah Dear Sir 1 notice In Tho Salt Lake Trl buno lint you have declared 1 a quarantine against Lumhl county Idaho allowing l that we have many cases of smallpox r I here AVo deny that there Is any smallpox l small-pox In this county We havo a frumbor I of cases of an eruptive trouble not much worse than chickenpox which tho doc I I tors call Impltigo It la I not hurling any body The scaro of smallpox was caused I by two socalled mlno exports who I stopped at tho Shenon house some time since Their very appearance gave thorn I away and they were guled by the boot blacks and l newsboys of the town who I I told them all klnila of frightful stories about the smallpox They left next morn log swearing vengeance agaInst tho town I and county Wo hope you will endeavor to obtain reliable Information and not depend upon tho testimony or a couple of mlno experts who perhaps were never ao far away from homo before and who could not tell a case of smallpox from a I quartz ledge Yours truly I W C HIT WELL M D APPEAL TO GOVERNOR Dr BeaU has written to the Governor Gov-ernor of Idaho asking him to take action I ac-tion In case tho local authorities of I Lcmhl county fall to observe the proper I I regulations Some question having I arisen as to the right of tho State Board of Health to keep out of tho I State all persons coming from Infected districts whether they are known to be Individually Infected or not the following I I fol-lowing section of the Revised Statutes of Utah may be of Interest The paragraph I 1 para-graph Is section 11 of chapter 15 passed i i March 23 1901 and rolales to the duties I of the State Board of Health I r1 LEGAL AUTHORITY Upon satisfactory Information of tho i I approach to or transit through tho I Stnto of Utah of Infected persona or I f goods It shall be the duty of tho ace I rotary as executive officer of the board I to cause the same to be stopped ot the I State line or if found within the limits I of the Stale to cause such persons or 1 goods to be removed from cars stages I or other conveyances and securely Isolated Iso-lated and disinfected In cases coming I under the Jurlsdlollon of natural or municipal quarantine authorities ho i i shall cooperate with said authorities In I all such action |