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Show SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC MM SWEEP STATE Dr. T. B. Beaffy Issues Warning That People Should Be Vaccinated. Dr. T. 1.1. Roatly. secrelary of the st ato board of health, received a telephone tele-phone message from Garden City, Tiich county, Friday that some twenty cases of smallpox were existent in that town. This is ifot surprising. Dr. Deafly states, as nobody gets vaccinated; there seems to bo nn antipathy agaiiirt this prnc-ticc prnc-ticc in Utah, and hence the spread of tho loathsome disease. Dr. Beat ty stales (hat this epidemic is but. carrying out. the prediction made by him in "the supplement to the Aug list, bulletin of health, which staled: "Contrary to the usual experience, smallpox has been widely prevalent, throughout tho 'summer months, and there is reason to fear a serious epidemic epi-demic of the disease during the approaching ap-proaching winter. As has been so often stated. Clnh is relatively dofcns'oles-'S against this disease because of tiie peculiar pe-culiar and unusual prejudice existing against vaccination, which is tin; only known method of preventing it. Health officers and all interested in tho public ivolfaro do their utmost to correct the unjustilied antagonism to a measure, which safely and surely prevents this loathsome disease. "All persons who have-not been successfully suc-cessfully vaccinated" within seven years dirmld urniniillv Jmvo il nurCnrmnil School children especially should be vaccinated because of their greater liability lia-bility to contagion in the school room. Tt is for the people of the stalo to elect whether they shall avail themselves of a measure which will thoroughly nnd permanently eradicate smallpox, as in other stales, or continue lo submit as for ten years past, to Ihe annual visitation visit-ation of hundreds of cases." |