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Show , v --. M Vv .. X - V - - Kcu City friysicfcn Oat-lines Oat-lines a Policy cf Progress Pro-gress In Sanitation. : . 'y Y 7 v- " I ' J ' Dr. Charles P; Wilcox. - Dr. Charles F. Wilcox, the new city health commissioner, and chairman of the City Board of Health, which is composed com-posed of Mayor Morris, George D. Alder, Al-der, Fred Lyon and himself, was in the health office today. , In speaking of the policy he Intended to follow he said that he would try and effect sewer connection of all houses near the sewer mains. In order that good drainage will be assured. "It la also my Intention to have the smoke nuisance abated, aa I am sure that it is the source of no little ill health, and to see that the sprinkling of the streets shall be effectively carried out. I wish, by enforcing the laws of hygiene, cleanliness and the strictest application of the quarantine regulations, to try and have as healthy a city as Is possible under my supervision." super-vision." Dr. Wilcox has been a practicing physician in this City for some years. He belongs to the county and State rredlcal association. He Is a graduate of the University Medical College of New York, having taken his degree in 1890, since which time he has been In practice prac-tice in Salt Lake. Unlike one of the other . candidates for -the office. Dr. Wilcox is a firm advocate of vaccination; vaccina-tion; In the course of his practice he has vaccinated more than 1400 persons, of which not one has ever taken smallpox. |