Show GRAVE CHARGE IS MADE cedar city physician accused of spreading disease state board will make investigations the state board of health received bi thursday afternoon afternoons mail a communication from cedar city accusing a medical practitioner there with deliberately causing the dissemination of scarlet fe fever cr in order to increase his practice the communication muni cation bean the bigna signatures tums of the heads of families living in cedar city and vicinity which tate that there are now 50 60 cases of the fever under quarantine in cedar and in hamiltons attl fork a village nearby normal students are expecting to be quarantined either at the school or it at then home homes and all thanksgiving festivities which had been planned hao liane had to be postponed indefinitely the communication asks that drastic measures be taken in the prosecution of the accused ab physic I 1 bici nn in secretary beatty of the state board baa that if desired evidence can be secured the offending doctor will be prosecuted criminally beatty says sans I 1 cannot conceive liow low any member of the medical fraternity cm cin be guilty of such a deed as is charged in this case it is 13 almost beyond the imagination if he is guilty I 1 hope we ave in kiy ay iy be able to prove it 11 dr I 1 C fortner formerly 13 secretary of the state board of medical examiners says sais ho he knows enough of the physician thus accused to believe the charge charges against him if made by reputable persons hes he sa is s this physician has no right to his licence if I 1 am not much mistaken I 1 was called upon to examine certain reports about him bini once and while I 1 could not secure pos positive itie proof felt sure that they them were mere well fo founded undid I 1 shall be interested te in knowing that lie is exposed I 1 the cedar cit city situation was brought out in this way wan A returned missionary was diken ill three weeks ago and ind this tills particular doctor was wis called in he ile pronounced the trouble bronchitis and advised him to keep loop out in the fresh air and circulate among his friends the young man did so but when the rash appeared this doctor declared it was only part of tho the bronchitis and did not indicate scarlet fever the patient was entertain entertained cd by mana man friends and spread the disease among them all in tho the early stages this physician declared it was not the fever but the tile local authorities believed they knew better and quarantined 30 homes since which time many other cases were made evident citizens recall a similar spread of smallpox in that locality a year a ago go under circumstances circum they consider just as flagrant there is deep feeling all through that part of the tile state over this matter deseret news dr T B beatty secre of tile state board of health yesterday billed upon the quarantine physician at cedar caa iron county and to other health officers in the county for a report upon the statements hv bi residents of cedar city and rounding sui towns accusing a pbs physician asician of cedar caa of ir irregularities in practice which they have claimed resulted in a spread of scarlet fever until a i serious epidemic epidell ilc resulted dr beatt yesterday received a letter from the doctor in question referring to the reports current among cedar city residents and denying their truth the doctor contends in ins his letter that he lie did not cause the epidemic by releasing a patient suffering aith the disease so that additional cases might add to tle the physicians practice and lie denies also that he made an all incorrect diagnosis of the initial case of scarlet fever dr beatty said last night that as far aa as he could learn cedar city was mas buffering suffering from two epidemics one of me measles isles and the other of fever it h is appeared that the physicians dow doi n there have been puzzled to tell which is ig which in the cacs ot of their patients said dr beatty 1 I have bae instructed the health authorities to investigate the contention of ohp residents and in the meantime to quarantine every patient they arc are not sure has bai measles instead of the tile fever derild litin lan dec dee 3 beita of the state hoard board of health left last evening for cedar city to inesti investigate gato for himself the scarlet fever conditions there deseret news neus dec 5 |