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Show THE PEST-HOUSE HORROR. The statement made in this journal last week, relative to the condition of affairs at tho pest house was true. That brands the city council of this city and the county commissioners with a brutality worse than savages are ever guilty of. It reminds one of the treatment of lepers in the old days. The people drove them out from their midst and made no provisions for taking care of them or supplying them with life's necessities. Our council and our commissioners split hairs al)out who shall provide for smallpox patients and in the meantime the afflicted ones are driven to a den, not one comfort, not one nurse, no necessary medicines are supplied them, not one modern essential to a sick room and there they are left to wear out the disease dis-ease or to die. This epidemic of smallpox is chiefly due to the Deseret News. As the organ of the Lord which some credulous thousands in this state look up 'to as both their earthly and heavenly heav-enly friend, it pictured to them, the scratch necessary neces-sary for vaccination as a fearful surgical operation; opera-tion; as sure to fill people's bodies with disease and against the science of tho century persuaded thousands of people from being vaccinated. So, instead of stamping out the disease, it has icon- H tinued for two years and a half with increasing 'H severity. But even the News never argued against "H taking care of the sick. True, it insisted that it fl could be cured by the laying on of hands, but it M never intimated that persons thus afflicted should . M not be given comfortable quarters, with needed jl conveniences and needed nurses. It required the ! county commissioners and Salt Lake City coun- r;M ell combined to prepare and keep before the world 1 H the horror now on exhibition in the swamp be- IH yond the penitentiary. H |