Show SMALLPOX IN SALT LAKE while smallpox is prevalent in salt lake it would not be more than a proper precautionary course to pursue for Ogden ites to avoid visiting the capital city unless absolutely forced to do so three new cases of the disease were discovered in salt lake yesterday one of the stricken families is named living at south fifth west and mr hobbs is a elsh peddler who in addition to selling elsh lias no doubt peddled the germs of smallpox over the greater part of the city and some of the germs will find fertile lodgment and more cases of the disease will soon appear as a consequence one of the salt lake papers says of the latest cases this is regarded as the most serious phase of the smallpox situation that has yet been presented in the other cases there lias been sri formation as to its source but in this instance the source of the disease is not known if tho of uie hobbs family are tue if mi hobbs has been selling fish since the disease entered his home it opens up possibilities of exposure that will require the most exacting measures to protect the public health A serious side of the affair is the fact that children on street were able to point out the hobbs house as the one having smallpox and yet nothing was k irown earlier of th cases by the the best way to avoid the disease reaching ogden Is to stay away from salt lake parents who go to the capital are endangering the lives of their children to a greater extent than if they remained at home that Is one certainty furthermore salt lake is just now more than an unhealthful tul placa tor in addition to smallpox there are cases of diphtheria in almost every ward some form of quarantine ia necessary to prevent the spread of these virulent diseases and it the state board of health does not sec its way clear to act in tho matter the people of ogden can inaugurate a form of quarantine by remaining away from that city when a few persons n new orleans a little over a year ago were with yellow fever southern pacina and other trains were not allowed to enter or depart so rigid was the quarantine of course smallpox is not to be compared with yellow fever in the south but in virulence it sometimes sweeps with the force of a plague and can only be held in check by the most perfect of sanitary precautions vaccination of late years has robbed the disease of its most harmful aspects but still it is a contagious disease that L to be vigilantly guarded against |