Show T 0 tv r g p mm 11 V it C 40 SALT lare LAKE CITY s r drar brar march ih 16 1873 t rh defeet De seed sect mads news dear sir I 1 consider myself maligned in the local columns of a city newspaper of march ath for the local tried to impress the mind of the public with the idea that I 1 had a case of smallpox all pitted and did not knoW it and that the quarantine physician had to visit my house which was opel to everybody and that he declared the disease td be smallpox enthat in that p paper aper of the jtb I 1 attempted to set tj this Is matter matten night right but the editors saw baw w fit to suppress that portion of my communication muni cation catlon n but buti bubi I 1 thought I 1 might the matter pass bass but this morn morning ingi I 1 found foung ston throw nAnd that of the their own owr motion there being no other cauff for I 1 lain am as ja careful of th health beaith 0 of the public md as they are with your permission I 1 will t try tny t bet set wt myself hight right with tho the publia concerning this matter my grandson the first frist case oi of smallpox in ln my house vas was take taken bick sick L i february th with inglam mation of the glands of the throat theoa e with symptoms of on friday night might of the at that time i the inflammation n of bf abated and tho the child was to all tippe appearances arances better betteb on saturday march only four sour persons saw the child besides the family among tile tiie tile numbe numbed n was dr chunon cannon landlady and lady giden those Thosa were wm he last persons thai sam gaw saw the chUd butof quarantine oh the tho disease was pro a doubli and I 1 sent my son to infirm dr Cli cil clinton the tha quarantine physician of ot the fact and that I 1 wished him to come and examine the quarantine regulations of my house he called the next day and expressed satisfaction with them the child died on sunday mom ing and I 1 went to see seo dr cclinton he hevar was waa not at home and arid I 1 was sent to the city halibut hally but not finding any person to give me llie the desired information I 1 called on the sexton and wished mal wal tomake arrangements for the interment of the child he engaged a person who afterwards declined to come and inter the child and I 1 was compelled to th find a team tot to convey the corpse to the cemetery and there with my own hands iwas I 1 was compelled to inter the child while the falling failing clods on the coffan re echoed through every of my already stricken heart gd forbid that this should be the lot of the quarantine regulators or others that might show a more sympathising sympathizing spirit As to the last thrust of t the c editors r referred to I 1 will ask them what a man must do must he starve must his family die for want of medicine and must his dead deag lie and rot because a part of if his family has the small pox ox when there is not a person to lend md a helping handor hand or come near and ask if af any assistance can be rendered J T D M |