| Show small smallpox ito spreading the utah journal perform the painful duty of recording a further increase of the smallpox epidemic in logan it says in its issues of last friday up to last tuesday there afis every reason to believe that tile smallpox was under thorough control on wednesday however the quarantine board had information lead leading t n to the beliet tant emall smallpox pox ox elis existed i ef in the family oi of sir fr I atas W asmussen the keeper of the second toll gate in in logan canyon which is about eight miles from logan 11 dr Ormsby hc flie quarantine physician at once drove up there and found that rasmus en had had bad the smallpox and was convalescing but had a daughter a half grown girl down with it the doctor instituted a diligent investigation to discover the manner in which contracted the disease but was at finst misled by statements and find denials made by at length however he lie discovered what is evidently the truth Ra amussen sen takes a danish paper in partnership with mr petersen Peters cn eliw son broj brought ight the smallpox to logan while mile the latter was sick called at the couso to get the paper but whether bof bel uro ure or after petersons Peter sens houe house its had been quarantined is uncertain thio thi no doubt is the way way in which Rasmus seii camo to contract the die disease aee while was coming sown with ith the disease during the early part week he lie cagne to logan and called on three diffie different rent families two boye bye members niem bera of one of these fan fam ilia had been living with him hilli up to last friday when they came home and d a portion of the same mme family were visiting with him last lait sunday his daughter dAught cr was breaking out with the disease the three families thus exposed were placed under as ai soon as the facts were known family only of hilla himself Self wife aud rud daughter the two latter will bo be removed to the hospital at once the toll gate house will be dis disinfected infected and rasmuss ell who is quite recovered will be given a new suit of clothed clothes and sent back to kep the tollgate tol gate while his ilia wife and daughter stay at the hospital the former ha has not yet come dawn down though bough there is little doubt but that she be will an old man living alone about a mile thia this side of the second toll gata gate lias has been fully through and will also alm be taken care of petersen Peters cn father odthe of the first patient was closely examined as soon as the truth about ipa hs sons illness was known know nto to ascertain the names of all persona persons who had been exposed through earning coming to his bouc had it lie given that of sen the latter and family would have been quarantined and the spread of the disease through them would have been prevented or had en who was fully aware that he be had bad the smallpox reported liia his case me aa as he lie should have done further exposures might have been avoided |
