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Show 65,000 inhabitants. Virtually nothing is beings done to check the spread of the disease.. We are giving it f rill swing. We are 'permitting the quarantine-breaker quarantine-breaker to spread the malady." This typ of citizen is more dangerous than the' highwayman, thair the footpad who strikes you from the. dark. The quarantine-breaker is a criminal of the meanest sort, and he should be mercilessly dealt with on that basis. Investigation proves that ninety per cent of the smallpox patients now under treatment have never been vaccinated. They were unwarned against the disease. As Dr. King declares, the only way to stamp out smallpox is by vaccination. No time should be lost in perfecting a citizens' organization to andle this alarming situation. Start a house-to-house vaccination campaign and squelch that skulking skulk-ing individual, the quarantine-breaker, and we will soon drive out smallpox. Vigorous Action Against Smallpox Needed. With eighty victims of smallpox under quarantine quaran-tine And rtew cases developing at the rate of from fire to eleven cases a day, Salt Lake is facing a most alarming situation. Nothing is to be gained by suppressing sup-pressing the facts. It would be criminal to attempt to do so. The protection of the public health demands de-mands a bold statement of the existing conditions. On three occasions within the past week persons with well-developed cases of the disease have strolled about the city, have ridden in street cars and have rubbed elbows with men, women and children chil-dren in crowded corners and in stores. Two young women, both suffering with smallpox, have attended entertainments and danced with young men. Quarantine Quar-antine regulations are ignored, and in many cases persons living in infected houses make a daily practice prac-tice of leaving their homes and mingling with the crowds on streets, in trolley cars and in theaters. With eighty eases under quarantine it is impossible for the Health department to see that its regulations regula-tions are obeyed. By big jumps the list of victims is growing, and the physicians of the city are a unit in declaring that the situation is most alarming. The prevalence of the disease, which is fast attaining attain-ing epidemic proportions, is injuring the city. It is doing incalculable damage to the business of retail and wholesale merchants. Persons from out in the State are afraid to come here to do their shopping. Prompt and vigorous action is necessary. A special meeting of the Commercial club should be called and plans arranged for a quick, but thorough campaign cam-paign against the disease. In Indianapolis, which has 169,000 population, recently twenty-six cases of smallpox were reported and the city was panic-stricken. panic-stricken. A house-to-house plan of vaccination was executed and 100,000 persons were inoculated. In three weeks the disease had been stamped out. Sere we have more than eighty cases, with an increase in-crease Of from five to six cases a day, in a city of |