Show THE diphtheria CASE statement of the quarantine I 1 physician isalt bair lare CITY olty I 1 march 2 1878 bd editors igors deseret news jewa permit me through ahr ough to state for tha tho information of mr bailey balley and others that we have havo no board of health nor health officers for salt lake nake city or county but the dutie duties of the quarantine phyl physician have so far been confined to the q quarantining of the contagion of smallpox email small pok pox tha ao medical prore slon aion are unanimous in regarding diphtheria and scarlet fever as equally infectious infections and more malignant anan smallpox small smail pox and when the community at large come to view them in the same light ligh and tand guard against them with equally stringent gen gea measures then and not till then can we hope to be free from these ter terrible tible maladies as epidemics d there are many able medi earmen carmen in salt lake city and mr bailey could undoubtedly have called one or more of them to his aid if he had so desired when I 1 learned that he had not done so 0 and he had bad no professional fess ional help through all the terrible scourge to which hl family had been subjected then from re elings feelings of humanity I 1 called at h his aa house and inquired what course of treatment they had pursued for those that had died and what done for thes thos he safety afefy of the thel living ivil ng I 1 left with the family what medicine I 1 had carried with me and instructions to procure more and to disinfect their house and family and precautionary measures to be adopted by the neighbors who were to visit at the house houfe e as nurses and helps help 8 e etc ete very respectfully S B B youn boux YOUNG youx M D 1 I |