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Show SMALLPOX NO LONCER TO BE QUARANTIKED Following an official announcement t D.' T. B. Biary. secretary of the state board ,cf health, that the board proposes to abolish the quarantine on smallpox in the st;:te of Utah, the Associated Health Otiicers of the state in convention assembled last Friday afternoon unanimously adopted a resolution re-solution indorsing the proposed action. The announcement from Dr. Beatty tame as a surprise even to the health officers, and was the subject of considerable con-siderable discussion, but all of the speeches made were in favor of the measure and at the conclusion of the talk a resolution drafted by Dr. Parley-Nelson Parley-Nelson of Manti, pleaging the association's associa-tion's support, was passed without a dissenting vote. In connection with this resolution a second was passed declaring it the sense of the meeting that the state board of health should make some provisions pro-visions for the free vacinatien of all persons who desire to be vaccinated, for a reasonable time prior to the rais ing of the quarantine on smallpox and continuously thereafter. It was admitted in the opei session that the measure is one to induce (rreater use of vaccination as a means of stamping out smallpox. It was contended con-tended that o.dy by vaccination can the disease be handled, that quarantine has proven unsuccessful, and. for that reason it is to be abolished and the people provided with free meam of jjrjiectinj thi:nselvjs a-.tin it the disease dis-ease through vaccination. It was explained that while the quarantine regulations will be raised, ! houses where smallpox exists still will ! Remarked with a smallpox fla simply as a warning to those who might un-: wittingly expose themselves, but there ' will be no restriction! placed upon the patient or the other inmates of the house. , In other words, if a man has smallpox, small-pox, after the new order goes into effect, ef-fect, his place of residence simply will be marked with a flag, but he and ether inmates of the place will be permitted per-mitted to go and come as they please. Dr. B aty in stating to the convention ! during the afternoon that the state! board of health had decided to abolish quarantine on small pox in the stale j explained that the scheme had been j employed in other states and had been found to operate very successfully in -bringing about wide use of vaccination and in the stamping out of the disease j through this means. i "Quarantine is no protecton," said j Dr. Beatty, "because it only gives a false sense of security. It is frequent- j ly violated, and people are exposed j who think they are being protected by the quarantine. The only protection j that is sure is vaccination, and every person owes it to himself to give him- : self this protection against the disease, j "There is no need for quarantine, for here vaccination is used the disease i.H perfectly harmless. Tne successfully vaccinated person is in no danger of getting it at all and that is the only way to handle the malady. "Utah txiay hns five times as much smailpnx per population as any other state in the u'don, yet we have had ex client quarantine rules here. Thh s mply shows that quarantine is ' not sucessftd method of fighting the dis ease. Tfce scheme of raising quarantine quaran-tine on smallpox has been tried in 'astern statPS and it has been found very successful. Thi sute law give the state board of health authority to make such rules a'vi reflations for the protection of health as it may dec m necessary and it has authority, under this law, to abolish I'Jarantine and it proposes to do so as a means of dealii g with the situation in . Utah. The conditions tire such here now that drastic iiv-usures are absolut-'v absolut-'v recessary and that is the reason ' this method of ih-aling with the disease is to he used. " -Vending to some authorities the contemplated eradication of quarantine provisions will be unconsl itutional and the subject is being very widely discussed dis-cussed pro and con, throughout the state, sv.me expressing the idea that with the "lid off" cm smallpox ' uaiists and the traveling public in general will hesitate before visiting our state fori fear of contamination. |