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Show HME MAM I rpreoOT town BEFORE the Council Sanitary committee com-mittee Wednesday night, Health Commissioner Wilcox took a rap a I his fellow physicians by declaring de-claring that they have been throwing the responsibility of inquiry Into smnl)-. pox cases upon him and his subordinates. subordi-nates. He declared that when there' was a suspicion that a case might be smallpox that the physicians would telephone tel-ephone the Health department that they were "afraid that the "case was smallpox." small-pox." That the Health Commissioner j denounced vigorously. He also declared that the department was loaded down with business and that calls were made upon him for services ser-vices of the most unnecessary character. charac-ter. Prisoners In the Jail, he said, would howl for morphine and he was called out of bed, after a hard daj''s service for the city, to 'pump morphine Into them. Men would fight aiid expect the Health Commissioner to patch them up. This the Doctor said was beyond reason, rea-son, and he so declared to the Sanitary committee. Dr. Wilcox tirges the establishing of an emergency hospital and he says If this ls done that-all unfortunates can bo properly cared for. j Dr. Wilcox's story of his encounter with a bulldog some time ago, was thrllllngly told to the Sanitary committee commit-tee Wednesday night, in defense of his failure to respond to an emergency call. The Doctor didn't treat the newsjapers exactly on the square by holding that information until It became old. He might have secured a full page write-up if the adventure had been given to the press at the time, and in cidentally the gratitude of the reporJ 2 wno hustle tor tho festive item, it fi I not quite the proper thing to Hupp V fD the story and exploit It u w,-. k u-te i a def-mso of himself fot fulling ya' I g spond to a call of the police t It ls conceded that thr Doctor hndi St good excuse. A fellow who had be V chewed by a bulldog is in no framed fl mind to go to Iho relief of anothw i troubles. One Ihlog that- always apneai 5 strange, when an olllcer or an emplovi $ claims to be overworked, is ihat t ft thought of a way out of the difficult' 2 by the resignation route, never seen V to occur lo him. in j " 1 Agitation of an old tlmV DfroratlS ? day observance has become popular an l It Is" also becoming general. Thr- thin !i of making the day a ihno for sack 2 functions and sporting ecnts, grow w offensive when reflected upon andll I Salt Lake City there Is a growing BCi 7 tlment in favor of turning a new. lei i and Joining In the observance of tfi I dny as il was intended that tly ddyJt I observed by those that set it apart.'! "Just why some of tho peopj - of Sa i Lake City send to long distant en ii f building material rather than uce tr 5 red stone that Is accessible, Ik hardfC understand," observed a citizen, ivf? think that the red stone ls much prefj tier than the gray, and certainly lcsR the cheaper." "I noticed recently a reference to twi fake fortunes that the people are pajK lug for when they give up their nioffel? to the average clairvoyants," remarVt a Snlt Lake stenographer. ' and I haV? wondered If othera have taken the satM notice of suc.ii things as I have I cohlJ fess that I am easy when It comes to paying out my quarters and halves fot 'fortunes' but I am not gulled with tli 'fortunes' I pay for as easily as I a? relieved of my money. " "When a' new clairvoyant corneal town It Is not many days until I hav my future told. And It would mali you smiL to see how they differ. Hep In this little memorandum book I hav kept tab of a few of the things. Oi one vlHit a certain fortune telle-r to me that in one year I would be in Call fornla. . A short time afterward I wu told that In a year I would be In th East. Another said lr. I tah hut notft this point. Still another said I wouj be abroad. St "Now there is one of two lhlns3ftj those fortunes. Either 1 have been paw ing for what you call 'hot air" or I imw be about to become a traveling min sti'el and be continually on the Jurnii nnd, since only a week elapses bclweei the time I am to be In I tah and tra vellng abroad, I suppose I am tolbi translated to the other country lnjt baloon, or In a dream " . If you think the Council should pro vide for the Sanitary department, that dally visits may be made for you' garbage during the warm months, (el your member of the Council about 111 And If he forgets, tell him again. |
