The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-06

Otner four members in the negative.
While discussing the resolution,
Judge Henderson said he did not wish
to be understood as opposing the advice
Of the health board. but he could not
overlook the fact that 81, 600 a week, the
cost Of maintaining the schools, would
be a dead loss through the enforced
vacation Of a week or a month. The
judge believed it wrong to call it COM
pulsOry vaccination if only unvaccIn-
ated children, who would probably be
I only 10 per cent of the whole number
of pupils, were TO be excluded from
attending school. To yield to the stub
born parents Of 10 per cent, close the
schools and secure no protection from
the contagion, Judge Henderson be
heyed to be the height of folly Before
taking his s,sat Judge Henderson took
fatherly fall out Of Mr.. Moyie for
misqUOting the doctors on the very
Slight danger of vssccinated persons
carrying the Infection and the efficacy
of lymph treatment as preventive
measure.
MI. Young favored the resolution be
cause it would publish to the world that
every effort viii be made by the people
I Of salt Lake to head off a smallpox
epidemic.
Mr.. Giauque eontende1 that the
cases Of smallpox are in mild form and
not as fearful as scarlet fever was
last spring.
Mr.. Newman was Of the opinion that
the board had no legal right to exclude
unvaccinated children from the schools,
and Mr.. Nelden coucurred with him
It was conceded that the necessity
for mourning d debt of $4,000 by con-
sent of the taxpayers to continue the
/ school term nine full months was more
urgent than ever, even with schools
| closed for safety of public health a
( week or more at a loss Of salaries paid
/ for not teaching. The board in conse-
/ quence concluded not to call off the
special election for Jan. 20.
/ The board adjourned for one week in
/ the hope that the danger of an cpl
/ demlc may be lessened sufficiently to
! start 20 school on the exclusion basis
/ at the time hoped for.
! Three more cases Of smallpox were
! reported yesterday, the victims being
! Carl De GrOot and two male members
/ of the numerous Hobbs family resid-
ing in the southwestern part Of the
! city. The pest house is full and the
new victims will be treated at their
/ quaTantined homes.
HG1lth Commissioner KeOgh stated
that the cases Of Mrs. SamuelsOn and
( Mrs Eula Wray Hobbs were Of a very
( virulent type.
The health department yesterday
| qUaTantined the following persons ex-
posed to the infection brought from
Butte by Susie Kilpack Cotton: Mrs.
I Frazer and two children, at 45 East
4 Third South street; w L. Hobbs, wife
and two children, at 9 jefferson ave-
nue.: Mr. Williams family Of four at
617 South Fifth West street and JO-
asph LinC1ay's family of five at AZ
/ Aberdeen street.
Mrs. Lulu Boyer Alexander, residing
/ at 153 South Ninth East street, was
reported yesterday to the health office
as a suspect from SpTingville.
James NJ. Anderson and J. A. Reeves
of the Oregon Short Line offices re-
ported to the mayor yesterday that the
/ quarantine regulations IN the south
western part of the city were not strict
ly observed by the Hobbs people who
had been exposed to the disease. Mayor
Thompson directed the inspectors TO
look into the complaint.