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Show BEATTY DETERMINED TO PUNISH VIOLATORS. Even at the risk of disturbing the amicable relations which exist between be-tween tho health department and private pri-vate physicians, Dr. T. B. Beatty, stato health commissioner, announces that ho will push his campaign of prosecution prosecu-tion in cases of concealment of communicable com-municable diseases. Dr. Beatty has just seoured one conviction out of several prosecutions instituted for failure to comply with the health rules respecting prompt re- porting of contagious diseases, and f the other trials are yet to come. The . offense of concealment is a misde- f meanor, Dr. Beatty says, and he will seek to have adequate penalties im- ) I IH posed, according to the aggravated I ! Hfl nature of the cases brought up, |