Show IN tour ret tn in the Cho lAIO Caie r Ur B a 1101 01 Special Correspondence Huntington Emery county countr Jan 2 The facts In the case of Dr J Shepard are arc as follows lie He had been exposed to smallpox nt at Emery at the same time Dr nn hay sas lie He went to Castle Dale and aM was placed In an Isolated house south of at the town on the night of l De e comber 10 The eruptions appeared Oil on Monday Monda night December 18 and Dr Shepard stated that bum hili was I a case of Genuine smallpox and that his body was entirely with characteristic lie He showed his arms whore where the subsidiary skin were die tended The scabs on the head showed very ery plainly but he claimed he had hadnot not been compelled to take to his bed bedor or miss a meal during the tho quarantine period Ito was released ed on Thursday morn mornIn In log December 28 just cloven days from the time was removed to tl quarantine quarters and just ton ten days from the time the local symptoms rip 01 The patient caine to Castle Cutlo Dale rind went to 10 th I barber harber strop shop where ho had Iris his hair cut and his race face shaven lie al appeared In the stores and saloons wearing the same outer clothinG that ho had been Jeen wearing when he came caine from the Infested dill die dietrict Our quarantine officer man manIn In the above aboe described condItion n a or of health to carry with him In his travels from here hore to San Francisco his destination Because the Huntington people were unwilling to have hae Dr Shepard stop iere the quarantine oJ officer clr Intimated that the doctor had money to pay his way and families that sometimes entertained the traveling public should be compelled to keep pr r Shellard or should be sued for tor damages I It they refused Notwithstanding the quarantine physician Is a practicing physician the tho public feels that the cace Is an out outrage rage on the community We Ilo know that In smallpox the period ot of Is from three to four weeks n as demon demonstrated during the epidemics In Mon Montreal troal treal and the Northwest In 1183 We think our Quarantine regulations are not adopted for tor time the convenience or of time the quarantined alone but for the ton tion of the public I as wel well It was stated that the of at this cae case the Our was a hardship on county count answer Is that the nubile should not be exposed to save the tho county Q a few tew paltry cents This loss would truly be 1 a great grent thing compared with the spread of at the dread rad disease II In our homey homes to tosa sa say nothing ot of the bis bills to physicians i undertakers and sextons We understand that there are 1 a number of cases at the town ot of Emery Emer which n naz been under quarantine about three weeks but during that time the quarantine physician ha has made but two there and the no actual condi can only be learned by b hearsay We the people ot of Emery Emer be visited and InstructIon given as to how Ia Jorth r yera the spread ot of the disease I It Is current that at Gr Green n River thia county count ther there Is 19 a seriously at af meted About th three weeks no ago they moc moved to Emel Emery count and stopped wih with a 0 tamly family where ther there 1 pox Two weeks ago ogo member members or of this visiting family came down dawn and We un understand members ot of the same family are sti still attending public gatherings The They have not yet et ben been visited by oUt quarantine or the CUe casee Ine investigated We think our loal local health ot of officers are guilty of continual neglect Md and doubt It If the they are famIliar wih wIth the requirements ot at the State Stale law It Ir not Ignorant of oC the existence ot of the stat statutes utes U tee I ft now seems likely that time the count county will 1 0 be overrun wih with although wo we trust It mn may not b be the tho case |