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Show I CRlALNAL CARELSJNEJJ j j AND SMALLPOX, j Inter inbuu tain and Colorado Catholic.'-. Smallpox is spreading rapidly In Salt Lake City and many other sections of the lntermountaln country, and nothing worthy of meptlon. has been done to check It It is true that the disease seems to be of an unusually mild type and the mortality has not been great, but It is to be feared that we are living in a fool' paradise if we think that nothing worse is in store for us. . Many can remember the terrible epidemic epi-demic of smallpox which decimated the city of Montreal some years ago. The type of the disease was mild when it first broke out and for two yaars or more people paid but little, attention to the danger In their midst. Then, almost al-most in the twinkling -of an eye, the mild form changed to the malignant confluent type and thousands perished before the drastic measures adopted by the Canadian Government could produce any effect. This Montreal epidemic taught, at a terrible .cost, the value of vaccination. The mortality was practically confined to the French Canadians Who had neglected neg-lected or refused to protect themselves In this way, while all the deaths occurring occur-ring among the !Engtish-peaklng reel-dents reel-dents of the city, who were thoroughly vaccinated, could be counted on the Angers of one hand. |