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Show SMALLPOX FAMILY. CONTINUES TO -SELL - 1 231 CASES OF SMALLPOX IH 3 MOUTHS. 1 ' . There have been 231 cases' of smallpox reported felnce the disease " took root. In December-there were 31 cases reported. ' C In January, 87; February, 6, and In March, 27 cas?s, Health Inspcctcr Invest!-A Invest!-A gating Offense Which Exposed Whole Helgh-borhecd Helgh-borhecd to the Dread Disease. , The Health Inspector Is Investigating an alleged case of flagrant violation of the quarantine regulations, and If sufficient suffi-cient evidence can be secured Is going to inaugurate a most vigorous prosecution prose-cution of the offending persons. , . The. Inspector was recently Informed that a family under the smallpox quarantine quar-antine had been . selling milk of the neighbors, delivering It to their homes , night and morning. . . Tie informant told the inspector that - .yt least four families had been supplied y with milk during all of the time the 4 place had been quarantined, thus ex-J- posing a large number of persons to the j dread ;disease and endangering the ea-A ea-A tire neighborhood. . Will Prosecute Them. The Inspector has been working tn the case since he received the Information Informa-tion and hopes to secure evidence that M justify him In securing a warrant. The Board of Health complains that quarantine regulations are not observed routine work is done, he has little or no j time to play the detective and hunt up evidence against suspected violators of the regulations. Mr. Smith asserts that only Ironclad cases can be taken to court those cases , where it would be Impossible to fail of conviction, as one defeat In court would be of greater harm to the board than two convictions could overcome, Beady to Prosecute Cases. Every case where a good amount of evidence and good witnesses can be secured, will be taken to the courts and profiecufed Hlth vigor.' - - Clerk Smith said, further: ' The board has to depend very largely on the integrity of the persona quarantined, quaran-tined, for a strict obedience of the law. We cannot place; a guard over every house as we have so small a force at our disposal. "Many persons consider quarantine regulations an abridgment of personal liberty, but do not consider the disease a public nuisance, which it is. "This class of persons Is like the man who tul a dead horse in his barnyard on which his chickens were feeding. He objected to the removal of the carcass because It was an infringement on his personal liberty, even though the carcass car-cass befouled the atmosphere. The cases are analogous. Sanger Not Realised. "There is not sufficient - regard for sanitary measures In ,thls city. Few persons seem to understand how extremely ex-tremely infectious smallpox really is. It isconsidered by many authorities that the infection is borne on the air, and is so easily diffused that objects coming in contact with, a paMent, will carry the infection for an Incredible time. "There is one thing that, if done, would tend to stamp out the disease in a short time. The City Board of Health., and the State Board of Health should co-operate. Two steps that the two boards might take would-result In the extermination of the disease in, four months. 'These are, first, t the erection of an Isolation hospital suitable for all classes of people, where the rich and the poor would receive proper treatment and. be put to no hardships, and second to secure the repeal of the McMillan bill. "These two steps would effectually kill the disease here," with the fidelity they should be. The board says that there is insufficient public sentiment behind the board to make all quarantines fully operative. The board has been advised that persons per-sons who have had smallpox and who were nearly well have gone out on the streets, mingling with the crowds, while their bodies were still scaling, thus exposing ex-posing hundreds of persons. Regulations Are Violated. The regulations are frequently ! violated vio-lated by families in which a case has been discovered who. between the visits of the City Physician and the raising of the yellow Jack.- spirit other members mem-bers of the family out of the house and secrete-, them with o.ther families, until ' the quarantine is raised. - . 'The quarantine rules are frequently evaded completely by persons who secrete se-crete the patients, and never take any sanitary precautions. A number of instances in-stances have come to the attention of the department where persons have had the disease and have recovered, and have afterward boasted that they have been victims but were not quarantined. Cause Spread of Disease. ' Horace Smith, clerk of the Board of Health,-. declares that. these inexcusable Violations of the health laws are re-V re-V sponsible for a very large percentage , of the cases of contagious diseases here. i-He declares that one health inspector is J not enough for a city of the size of Salt Lake. He says that when the inspector's i |