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Show IT COSTS $5 TO CARRY PATIENT TO THE PEST HOUSE, SO IT'S CLOSED There are thirty-six cases of smallpox In Salt Lake City at the present time, but the isolation hospital has not yet been opened. There is not one of these thirty-six patients, suffering with the dread disease, who is at the city hospital hospi-tal for contagious diseases. The disease is almost entirely confined con-fined in the northeastern part of the city, there being but few scattering cases outside of this district. All of the persons thus far affected are under un-der vigorous quarantine regulations. The Board of Health states that the quarantine regulations were never more rigorously observed and enforced than they are at this time. City Physician C. F. Wilcox when asked by The Telegram Tuesday afternoon after-noon for the reason that the isolation hospital was not opened, said: "It Is true that there are thirty-six cases of smallpox in the city at this time, and that the hospital is closed. No Severe Cases. "In explanation, I would like to state that there is not a right good case yet developed. All, or nearly all of the persons affected, are children. The parents pa-rents of these children refuse to allow them to be removed to the hospital. In one case there are eight children down with the disease in a single family, as well as the mother, who also has it. The father is doing all of the work and attending to all of the patients. "If one member of a family gets the disease, and the others wish to do so, they may be vaccinated free. If they refuse re-fuse to be vaccinated and prefer to have the disease to being vaccinated, that is their privilege. Every Trip Costs $5. "When one member of a family contracts con-tracts the disease and the others will not be vaccinated, it is absurd to take that member who is ill, to the hospital, because the others will surely catch it. It is expensive to convey patients to and from the hospital. Every round trip for every patient costs the city $5. The disease would be further spread by carrying car-rying diseased persons through the streets, than it would by leaving them closely quarantined at their homes. "The thirty-six cases that are now under quarantine, are very mild, not one of them' being of the confluent type." |