Deseret Evening News | 1900-12-20 | Page 2 | Kansas Smallpox Scare

UA MS CIt City now has a smallpox opi we presume a morning contemporary for Cor the ak of at consist eno enoy will 11 say aay to the lion and Influence or of the eS anti and a number or of the tho or of that city have havo volunteered to vaccinate the People tree free ot of charge provided they the aro furnished the points b by the city flut Dut the City Star that no adequate Quarantine regain regulo are established and S says S that i complaints are dall daily coming In to the elt city authorities on that account It seems to he be a common tailing of at ath h health boards to overlook the necessity of oC adequate quarantine regulations They will recommend the closing of oC schools to healthy children while they will M say nothing about the danger of physicians carrying disease germs from smallpox patients to others other un under er their care or the dangers or of overcrowding street care should hould be avoided at atall atall all times and especially during los Only the other ollor day a story was told or of a lall lady who emerged from a ahouse ahouse house In thu city marked with the tho ominous Oar fIg antI and hailed 1 a street car to which she aho was admitted The public ot of cou course are willing to Inks risks but lIal hta no rl right ht to expect a warning word Crom health Wo We believe bellve the general Indignation against tile the autocratic of power nil as roo no garde S the enforcement or of some rules is Ie due more to the apparent neglect ct ot of others other than to any RnY other cause caute