Show prevention of epidemics serious epidemics of isles acir let fever and other contagious contagions conta gions dio eases have occurred in utah this winter numerous complaints were heard regarding the quarantine regulations ions imposed by the ties many complained that they were enforced too strictly or without proper discrimination others said that they were not maintained enough and thus per milled a spread of the infections some objected to any kind of quarantine declaring it unnecessary and tyrannical health officers have complained thit the people in many cases refused their operation and ignored 01 evaded the ions most of the trouble ag probably due to thoughtlessness the majority of us believe in the strict enforcement of liw but when it begins to crimp our own activities our zeab weakens any quarantine will bously inconvenience many and work great injustice to some persons this is regrettable but inevitable public welfare must ever take precedence over private need the greatest good for the greatest number should be the motto of every citizen as well as every health officer modern science has proven to the satisfaction of well informed reasonable person that thoe disa a which occur in epidemics are carried from person to person and cannot occur in any other way in almost every cae it is possible if the search is thorough enough to trace the infection to some other human being it is evident therefore that every case of such sickness 13 a source of danger to the entire community and every 1 ble means should be taken to pre vent that person from infecting others the person who will for the bako of personal convenience or because of stub borne permit this infection to be carried to another person is an enemy of society and should not escape the indignation of his neighbors some people make the excuse that measles whooping cough etc are natural to children and are harmless or at least necessary they are not necessary and can and should be prevented measles kill on ao average of probably 1 f ha f f children each bev in the united and thousands are left with umpired eyesight and other beanous after effects whooping cough per ig even more dangerous mumps and german measles often have denous consequences in view of these io evera physician phy sican and well informed layman the people should demand the rigid enforcement of quarantine regulations and should operate in every possible way with their health to make these regulations effective W U t executive secretary utah public i health |