Show SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC co boang NING 11 have been issued ly by the s sie si e beard ot of health to tic the effect that an epidemic of smallpox is headed this way from it tins ic east dlud tho the disturbing big feature about those these advance warnings is that the tha disease Is the oya fashioned black variety which Is the knost virulent type and as a re suit the fatalities are very heavy along with this warning the state health officials are pointing out that because of the tact fact that utah has never adopted compulsory vaccination the people ot of this state have very little protection against the epidemic should it reach this section that the epidemic will eventually arrive arria 0 is not quesa questioned by the health officers wh who point n opo t to the fact that it broke broke out in tl the 1 eastern cities and has now traveled west as tar far as denver the medical profession stoutly maintains that vaccination Is a preventive against smallpox small pox it if not absolute it nullifies the virn lency of 0 the malady to the very minimum and so v a is being urged as a successful check against tho the onrush ot of the epidemic tile the matter is up to the people themselves tor for final dIs disposition TosI the law cannot compel vaccination ci and those who are not converted will either cither have to bo be converted or else they will take their chances with the epidemic when it arrives |