| Show STEWART TRIES TO TOn n s. s SHIFT EXPENSE J r Makes Strange New Rule In Regard to Care of Contagious Contagious Contagious Con Con- Cases r 1 J SA SAYS YS COUNTY SHOULD DO IT Tries to Help l Party Out of Hole IJ by landing I J Just list lies Hc i Dr Stewart health commissioner of or Salt Sail Lake has established a new rule as to the responsibility of or the thc city In Inn Inthe the tho treatment of contagious lous dl diseases case within the thc city Ho refuses to gh give c them medical attendance although he exercises thc the city authority to quarantIne 4 tine them That new move on the thc part of ot the caS easy commissioner was brought out Monday of the present week weck wh when n Dr Stewart refused to take char charge o of the six Ix diphtheria Ceases in ht the thc family of oC r Frederick l II who lives JI in tho the rear of or 30 Sixth North street alL al al- al L IS though he ho committed the city to tho the extent of pu put putting tong tinS thc the family in antine The presence of the lute diphtheria w was discovered d there by an assistant of ot Dr hitney h It ne count county physician Sunday Sunda night At once the thc fact was communIcated communicated communicated to Dr Dr- Paul an nn assistant to lo Dr t t. t Stewart and Dr Paul told his chief Dr Stewart called up Dr Whitney h Un e and asked d him what he meant by br turning turn turn- jn ing over the 1 case to the thc city He Hc was Informed that It ha had 1 alwa always s been the thc custom of the city to take char charge e of or contagious lous diseases within tho the city as thc these e were quarantined by the city Not Interested 1 In Their Fate Dr DI Stewart replied that he would take charge e of them no more and he didn't care what became of or the cases ses Dr Whitney might give h them medical attendance and toxin at nt the expense expense ex ex- ex- ex pense of or the count county count The city would not become responsible Dr Whitney informed th the easy commissioner that the count county had al alwa's always always al- al ways was been in tho the habit of caring for foi cases case of ot Indigent persons within boti hotI city and count county unless the disease were contagious In that case the tho city had been bound for fOI medical to the extent of its police pollee power His view ii Its IB upheld by a number of physicians I- I clam Dr Whitney asked Dr Stewart what cases he considered within tho duty fluty of or orthe the city and the cas easy commissioner r replied that the tho jail cases were all hp he would take charge of oC all that he held tho the city liable for COl He was asked how many physicians he hc had to take talo care of or the Jail cases and artel he is reported to have havo replied that he had two and would not take talie any cases outside the tho jail fail Rather than have the family go o without attendance Dr Dl Whitney provided pro pro- vided anti antl toxin and the attendance of l k o D ph physician at the expense of ot the 1 county and then sought legal leSal advice i ti i i Guy CUt Mu Musi ll St t C Caro lO for rOle Them 1 V He is informed by bJ lawyers lawers that the city must take care of the cases where It exercises the tho right to quarantine And tho the county physician will hold to that opinion In future Yesterday Dr Stewart went before the county commissioners and sought to have o all aJl the contagious diseases in tho the city cared for tor b by the county and the matter was referred to the thc county attorney for Cor an nn opinion Pending that the easy commissioner commission commission- er will wIH set aside the precedent of the past and make a new rule of ot hl his own It means nearly a thousand dollars In tho the course of a year and the easy commissioner does not want the city saddled with any expense since his political friends within the tho municipality municipal municipal- It ity have ha so little cash cath and so man many places to put it I |
