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Show iiOGDEIN PHYSICIANS GIVEN A SCORING State Board of Health Roasts City Physician Doctor Anna F. Ries for Failure to Prosecute Ogden Violators of the Health Laws A-Cowardly Attack of Salt Lake Herald-Republican. i t Tha following cowardly attack on the Ogdon lady city 'physician appeared appear-ed In tho Salt Lake Horald-llepubllcau this morning: - '"Allegations to the effect that the Ogden board of health Is one of. tho poorest in Utah, and that Dr. Anna Frances Ries, hoalth commissioner there, Is responsible In a way, -were made by Dr T D. Bcatty, secretary of the state bonrd of health, it a meeting meet-ing of tho House commit tic on public health -yesterday morrung, "The meeting was called to discuss a measure which provides that the terms of health, ofllces In Salt Lake. Ogden, Logan -and Provo shall be live years, instead of two years as at present pres-ent Dr. jJentty was prosent afr the meeting, urging favorable action on the incisure, when discussion of the health' conditions at Ogden came up Incidentally ''Dr. Bcatty sa'd that sanitary conditions condi-tions wore verv poor In tho Weber county metropolis under thc present administration there." What so aroused the ire of Doctor Beatty? Doctor Beatty has admitted that the percentage of deaths from contagious and infectious diseases has , "been, less In Ogden than In any other city in the state, and when this paper asked him if that was why he thought Ogden had a poor hoard of health, he said, "No, but the Ogden Board of Health has reported more deaths'from contagious and Infectious diseases than It has reported of such cases of sickness, which shows sonio doctors nreiJiot reporting their cases of sick- nCS'f . i ' : Doctor iBeatty said that ho was speaking to the committee on public health of the Utah legislature and did not know that a reporter was present and that the latter had drawn wrong conclusions from his romnrks. Doctor Doc-tor Beatty asks for this paper to say that his whole complnlnt was that the Ogden Board of Health did not force the Ogden doctors to obey tho law. When askod if Dootor Ries should bo held responsible for tho failure of other doctors to roport Buch cases, ho said, "Yes, unless she has tho offending offend-ing doctors arrested " The city council will have to furnish Doctor Rlcs with a body guard of a half a dozen woll armed men If she I Is to investigate each death and diagnose diag-nose the case after death, as the physicians phy-sicians of Ogden certainly will objoct to any such procedure. But Doctor Ries will give tho State -Board of Hoalth a chance to show Its teeth, as sho will hnve thc next violator violat-or of the law arrested. As a matter of foci, Doctor Anna F. Ries Is the best city physician Ogden hag had In twenty years. The writer or this article ling had experience with every city physlclau for twenty years and he can truthfully stnto that not one of thorn has exhibited tho zeal and attention possessed and given by Doctor Ries. The health of Ogdon City is better today, than for many years, in splto of the fact that a few of tho male doctors of Ogden are trying to make It unpleasant un-pleasant for tho only lady city physician physi-cian In Utah. |