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Show X MGMlim MOVEMENT OF CITIZENS v h IS URGED TO STAMP tfUT SMALLPOX - . , Eighty Cases Now Under V Quarantine, and the -Disease Is Spreading . Steadily; Dr. King's Views on the Isolatien Hospital. The erection: of a new isolation hos-, hos-, . pital is unnecessary and uncalled for. I VACCINATION IS THE KEY TO i ' THE WHOLE SITUATION'. ALL , THAT IS NECESSARY IS FOB THE PEOPLE TO BECOME VACCINATED TO "WIPE OUT THE DISEASE. The I people, however, know my sentiments s " - on the . smallpox question. CITY W PHYSICIAN J. C. E. KINO. In view of the serious nature that the 1 smallpox situation In Salt Lake has as-jf,. as-jf,. sumed It has been suggested that the ' citizens take up the matter In an organized organ-ized movement to stamp out the disease. , It is declared by the doctors that the situation is a grave one, and calling for some concerted action on the part of the people, when in a city of much less than 100,000 inhabitants there are eighty eases of the dread disaase under quarantine regulation. Health Officers Handicapped. The Health officials have all they can I do to attend to the patients after they x have been taken with the disease, and v I can in no way prevent its spreading. ,They can not watch every house that is quarantined to make sure that the rules are observed by the inmates. Many of the patients violate the quarantine quar-antine provisions with a wanton disregard , of the consequences of their willful care lessness in spreading the germs. As a result, new victims are claimed by the dlaease faster than the old ones .get over it and the number under quarantine is steadily increasing. City Needs a Festhoase. i City Physician, Dr. J. C. E. King, when asked today if the city should not have a new pesthouse said: "Yes, a city of this size should have an isolation hospital, for the treatment of ' contagious diseases, capable of accomodating accomo-dating one hundred patients. I would not say Just where it should he located, but It should be In an isolated place, it should , be modern In every detail of equipment and sanitary appliances. There need not be many attendants, as only the mot serious seri-ous cases require very close attention." |