| Show A LIBEL REFUTED SALT LAKE CITY NOT trip trie pestiferous PLACE IT IS represented TO BE DE FIGURES THAT DO NOT yot LIE edwy editor deseret news there seems to be bea a disposition on the part of some persons in an fn our oun community to magnify every circumstance that occurs and make mountains out ont antof of mole moie molehills hills the balf basting nasting of the flag on the fourth of july last lant was represented as such a menace to the government as to require the presence of troops to prevent a repetition of the insult on the of july or pioneer dagand when no circumstance whatever exists out of which the malig malls ners nera of the people can possibly ni make ake any capital their fertile brain will create out of nothing circumstance scenery actors and everything else in the shape of appointments and furnishings so as to keep keeli up AN everlasting howa about the mormons cormons Mor mons for to misrepresent nay lie is their strong hold and the oni only w weapons a ons they use we lve have rad tad had a few cases of alph theria in our city some of which have proved fatal during the past few months this Is made to appe appear aras as appalling in the extreme that our city is almost a charnel house that the quarantine physician with his limit limited ed powers and aalthe the municipal authorities generally ly are responsible for this thia awful condition of things and then again the county authorities are guilty so they say of the most culpable negligence because a f few feo ew cas cases es have resulted disastrously outside ot of the cit city y limits not a word is said about the physicians who have personally attended many of these cases and whose duty it was to sug suggest est the proper precautionary measures to prevent its spread because in the main the physicians are noh nob mormons cormons 11 I 1 I 1 am not disposed however to blame the medical fraternity the quarantine physician the municipal officers nor the county authorities because I 1 am not aware of an any criminal neglect chargeable to either of the them m and have no disposition to rush in into to print for the sake of producing pro ducin w a sensation yet I 1 thought that A FEW FACTS sustained by evidence might hav hax have e the effect of calming the fears tears of the more nervous part of the community in 1881 the total deaths occurring in this city in the month of august were of these three were irom from f rom diphtheria in 1882 the total deaths in august were 58 diphtheria cases L 1 in 1883 the total deaths in august were 67 57 diphtheria cases none in 1834 1831 the total deaths in august were 48 theria cases 3 during the month of august this year we have the terrible mortality of 49 with 10 cases of diphtheria included while in the month of anly last the total mortality was 43 with four cases of diphtheria in fact the mortality af pf of the past pact month mouth has been less than in any corresponding month for fifteen years ears past except as tol lol follows lows in 1870 wien when it was 32 S 2 18 1871 when it was 43 1876 when it was 0 31 1880 when it was 24 7 of which were from and 1884 when it was 48 the mortality mortality during the present year sear so far has been low while the diphtheria cases for eacil each month are as follows january 1 february none march 3 april 3 mai maz mayi mayl 1 june 4 july 4 august 10 making ma g a total of 20 now kow no mr nir editor in view of these facts what cause is t there here for represent our city as A pestiferous PLACE or what need is there for abusing either quarantine physician or the municipal officers perhaps the governor of our territory can help the falsifiers b by y manipulating these figures in their favor as heald he did in the cannon camp bell case but unless this can be doue done the fact remains that another mountain is sought to be made out of a mole hill I 1 am indebted to the courtesy 0 of the superintendent ot of the sextons Sex tons office P for the use of schedules schedule s from which this data is obtained yours truly consistency salt lak lake e city sept eth 1885 |
