Show 1 FIGURES SHOW DIG INCREASE Records of the Health Bureau Show Contagious Diseases Spread Rapidly THIS YEAR IS THE WORST VORST Authorities Take No Action Against Doctors Who Fail to Report Unaware of 01 tho the alarming spread of contagious diseases in Salt Lake Lako inthe In tho the last two weeks Dr C. C B. B Steware Steware Stew- Stew are aro city health commissioner contented contented contented con con- tented himself ye yesterday by answering answer answer- ing lag Inquiries with the statement that tho the story in yesterdays yesterday's s Republican was WIlS anything from a n mass of tommyrot tommyrot tommy tommy- rot to Just plain lies Tho The records of or contagious diseases arc are on tile Ole at the office in tho the city and county count buildIng build build- ing and you ou will see that there r Is nothing In this stor story about any alarming alarmIng alarm alarm- Ing Increase In contagious diseases In Salt Lake said Dr Stewart te The figures to which tho the city health commissioner confessed his I Ignorance norance wore were found round In the office In which Dr Stewart Is seldom seen and thoy they may be tie found round by the tho head of the tho department department depart depart- ment himself eJr Thoy They show a total o of f 11 c crises of ot contagious diseases re reported ro- ro ported during tho the last two weeks o of or f which twenty six are aro smallpox thir tir teen diphtheria soven thirty scarlet scarle t fever oer seven soven measles and 25 5 whooping Co cough ugh Dr Stewart saId ald an average C of twelve to fifteen cases of or smallpox scarlet fever er and measles was only the normal number of ot cases of L L. ese diseases to bo be reported each veel during tho time school year car and that thata a city of or the size of 01 Salt Lako Lake must expect to have havo at least that many This he said would be shown b by th the records In tho the city offices From the tho beginning of 1909 those these records show there have ha been 9 29 cases of smallpox reported to date while last year for tor the corresponding period there were only onh seven cases case of ot smallpox and for tor the first nineteen weeks of 01 1907 there thoro were only three cases of smallpox Increase c his bl Last year when the epidemic of oC scarlet fever Cever and measles became so severe se that It was vas necessary to close the schools there thore were cases of oC scarlet fever te during the tho first nineteen I weeks of the year and this figure only exceeds the corresponding p period of 1909 by two cases Measles has been under better better control however for tor there have havo been beon only thirty nine cases case reported so far this year ear against iOl last year for the tho same samo period and twenty one for the same samo weeks of ot 1907 Whooping cough however shows a total of or 15 cases from the tho first ortho of or tho tha year ear to date dat as compared with 10 fourteen cases last year car and ten cases the tho year tho-year year ear before The physicians of ot tho timo city who are arc Interested In seeing that the tho laws ar are enforced arc aro apparently In the minorIty minor minor- It ity and no active steps aro are being taken taleen to compel tho others to obey the state stati- law lav which requires tha thai all cases casos of contagious diseases bo be reported and In every report Issued by the It Ity v board of 01 health the deaths from iome some orne diseases are greater than the number reported no action has been taken by the health commissioner t prosecute the physicians who In many Instances are dir directly responsible for forthe forthe forthe the spread of ot th the diseases by failure to report the cass cashs to tho proper authorities lh s 8 oJ Many Man il a T physicians who are giving their ea lest su ort rt to any movement llo which will tend to reduce tho the tho number of deaths from Crom contagious diseases express themselves as being powerless to l Ic anything anything- through the tho present head of the health d department Referring to fo the spread of ot scarlet t fever re in Salt SnIt Lake Dr V. V W. W N. N Naylor says I would like to point out to the health officials and the school officials of- of that the period of 01 quarantine for or scarlet fever over in Great Britain and France Is six weeks and not three weeks n as is practiced here This short period of 01 quarantine Is Is I belle believe belie from Crom m my on own experience the principal reason for Its spread I am nm sure suro the tho time has arrived l when It Is up to the the- health department to provide a free Isolation hospital and that there theme beno be bl beno no cause in Its operation which might give It tho the name r f t pest house |