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Show "SMALLPOX IS BROUGHT TO OODEN During the past few months Oglcn bag had a few cbshh of smallpox, but the health department Fava not ;,' single case has haj its ,;rlgln here uyomlng has done ita part Ln fur-r.ahlng fur-r.ahlng Ogdcn with smallpox caes. and other cases Lave come from other directions outside, tho state. Last evening a new case of the dls- ease was discovered ln tho city, the victim being J. c. Kyle, who nx-entlv came from Kansas with a carload of horecs. Mr. Kyle U a man pretty wll along in years, being years old. but tho attack Is mild and no evil results are anticipated. Ho wa. removed to the pest house and will be kept there, under competent medical med-ical care. The old genUemnn arrived In Og-den Og-den about tight days ago and be is of I the opinion that ho contracted the usoaso on tho ro;id between Ogdcu and Kansas. John Geocts, a foreigner, who has been conflDed In tho pest house for the past three weeks with smallpox, was released last evening as he has passed the stage where he could trans- ". 1 1 iv uisi.-ase 10 otners. Tho officers say that there has not bren a severe case hero, and that every patient has been sent away la good physical condition. Scarlet fever Is abating consider- auy, says Inspector Poulter. there now being only 21 cases In the city. All other contagious diseases nre greatly diminished. Health conditions In the schools wore reported at the beginning of the holiday vaca'Jon to be good, and tho health officers Kay that If Lho decrease de-crease ln the contagion of the city continues during tho Christmas time, the schools at the opening next week will be virtually free J'roin Infectious I physical ailments. |