Show THE SENSIBLE J PRECAUTION REAPPEARANCE of smallpox in the cit city eitY has stirred public health officials to urge the sensible precaution to prevent its spread l to ep- ep p- p proportions While Thil there is no cause for or hysteria the prudent individual particularly thoughtful par parents will realize that im ira should tie De availed of The time time has as long ong since passed when vaccination is to be feared modern eared modern laboratory in iii preparing ing serums has seen to this In twenty years only once has Salt Lakes Lake's record passed the thousand mark for ases report reported d yet older inhabitants recall the distressing times wh when n it was found necessary I to o open an isolation hospital on the east cast bench to fo take care of ot the large number of virulent cases bases This pest house has vanished because the success s of vaccination campaigns campaigns' made it no longer needed Despite growing knowledge of pf the efficacy of the precaution against 1 catching the disease it is surprising that so nany adults and children lack the protection In the he last las ten years Salt alt Lake has had no deaths from smallpox though in that time tr r. r there have been about cases In 1923 I I however with only 52 2 cases reported there c. c were vere 12 deaths This was the largest number num nuni- ber of deaths in any of the past twenty years In 1920 with 1059 cases there were wert only four deaths There Thele should be no smallpox in ill any community so BO successful has haR this his simple means pf of c combating it become At one time the ignorant believed that an an Inoculated person ran the chance of having L somo portion of a cov cow grow from the body in of vaccination with cow pox virus vi rus-as rus rus as a hoof horn or even a head complete 9 Clergymen ignorant of scientific subjects pre preached against it as interference with the tho divine purpose Others however no notably ably the of Worcester urged their e communicants i 2 yaU themselves 2 pj g rou i t ii them by scholarly physicians who painstakingly pioneered the way through sup superstition fanaticism and stupidity Health Commissioner Viko sounds a timely timely time time- ly Iy warning There is no need for Salt Lake to have a smallpox epidemic Any ph physician can immunize against the disease and for those who are arc unable to pay the city board of health offers free vaccinations Normally after vaccination vaccination vac vac- a mild indisposition sets acts in but is quickly passed This is only the outward sign that immunization is taking place Thereafter Thereafter There There- after the person is almost invariably sure that exposure to contagion will be without ill ef ef- ef feet The Thc duration of the immunization is not the same in all persons so that those who have Jave not been vaccinated for several years rears would do well to repeat the safeguard If immunization immunization is still existent in the system it is improbable im mi- mi probable that such persons will experience even the mild reaction that usually accompanies the taking into the sJ system stem of the tho protective or or- |