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Show WHAT VACCINATION HAS DONE. Jndianapolis, where an epidemic of smallpox, in 'many cases of. the confluent type, has been raging, is setting the world an example in the way of stren- uous health methods. The authorities of the Hoosier capital started out determined to stamp out the pest which was rapidly spreading into every section of the city, They realized that the only -effective method meth-od of fighting the disease was through vaccination. A systematic campaign waa inaugurated, and today Indianapolis is the best vaceinated city in ihe world, ' more than 100000 persons wearing scars. The disease dis-ease is under control, and when the patients now in quarantine are released there will not be a case of . smallpox in Indianapolis. "There are but.128 cases . in the "city . now, says Mayor BookwaJter of In- dianapoHs,"eighty-five in the detention hospital and forty-three at their homes. Every case of sickness in the city has been verified. The police have made a careful house-to-house canvass, and . wherever a case .sickness of any kind was discovered the attendant at-tendant physician has certified to its character. Dur-ing Dur-ing the past week the city, alone vaccinated over 8000 ers6ns; and every physician wag busy in his private practice. I challenge any one to dispute the statement that Indianapolis is the most thoroughly vaccinated' city in the world. We have stopped the spread of the disease, and in two weeks there will not be a case in the city." Indianapolis newspapers are responsible for the publication that since January Janu-ary 1st more than 10Q,000 persons have. been vaccir nated and Mayor, Bookwalter 'declares the total, i number is much greater. Physicians were stationed at the Fire department houses, dispensaries and hospitals' hos-pitals' and in every drug store, applying the vaccine without charge. In addition the school children , were ordered to be vaccinated, street cars and public pub-lic assemblage halls were fumigated, and then began be-gan the house-to-house canvass which has developed sueh remarkable results,- There is no compulsory - vaccination, law in operation in Indianapolis, but when her public-spirited citizens were called upon to co-operate with the health officers in exterminating exterminat-ing the plague, they bared their arms and submit-, submit-, ted to vaccination. Quarantine regulations were ob-. ob-. served tovthe letter, and a combined attack made on the disease. But what isthe situation in Salt Lake? There are .now eighty-four cases of smallpox in the city, and from two to four new cases are reported daily. ' n proportion to its population the local sit-, sit-, uation is more seriousthan that which led to the vaccination of 100,000 persons in Indianapolis and a strenuous health campaign. But what are we doing here to check the disease? The Health deparfment is performing splendid work in the jway of enforcing quarantine, regulations, but .without the co-operation pf the citizens of Salt Lake they are powerless to check the spread of the disease. Were 63,000 Salt Lakers to bare heir arms to the vaccine point, smallpox would be driven from the city in a month. But to keep ihe disuse out of this county we must persuade the people out in the State that the man who submits to vaccination is a public-spirited citU zen, Vaccination scars are marks of honor in In-. In-. dianapolis, and they ought to be so considered here. . , SBaBJSSBaSBSBBBBBSBBBBBJBBBJBBBBpBSBBSaB |