Show SMALLPOX CASES IN SALT LAKE CITY five taken down with disease and all are kept secret salt lake april 18 health commissioner M ina R stewart head of the city health department Is directly responsible for a smallpox epidemic in salt lake five fire cases have already be been on reported to the board of bf health and at least three of these could have been prevented had dr stewart exercised ordinary judgment not only has tho the health department bungled the smallpox cases but every effort has beon been made to keep the mat ter a profound secret in the weekly health reports all mention of the presence of smallpox was omitted on march 24 the health department was notified that mrs jennie roberts roberta colfax avenue had bad smallpox colfax avenue runs f from rom second fast east street between sixth and seventh south streets mrs roberts was ordered to stay at her house and the place was quarantined an tined shortly aMr afterward ward frank roberts roberta her husband was taken down with the disease and that case was war likewise reported report e d I mr ar and mrs roberts wanted to be taken to the isolation hospital which was built for the treatment of smallpox and the prevention of its spread when dr S G paul dr stewarts assistant called at the place mr and mrs roberts asked to be taken to the isolation hospital for tho the sake of the family and the neighborhood dr paul referred them to dr stewart St on friday april 10 lon J haddock secretary and manager of the manufacturers merchants association who lives across the street from the roberts house bouse was taken down with the disease mr haddock asked to be taken at once to the isolation hospital and dr stewart laughed at him why that would be absurd said the health commissioner arrogantly it costs the city a m month 0 nth to run the and we can cant t afford to open it now for one patient this answer was similar to the answer given to mr and mrs roberts A fourth case of smallpox cropped out when geneva greenhalgh colfax avenue caught the disease the holmes case care added to the epidemic and while it in the same neighborhood bo it is believed that it emanated from the same source with the fifth caso case of smallpox the health commissioner began begaii to sit up and take notice and he offered to take all of the patient patten tp to the hospital |