The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-04
DISEASE STAMPED OUT
Further Cases Of Smallpox Are
Unlikely.
DIR. KINGS STATEMENT
ANSWERS RABBI LoEWEN-
STEMS ATTACK.
Says the Board Did Not Rescind It's
School Closing Order Because of
COwardice, But Because it Was No
Longer Necessary-Took More
Courage Than the Other.

Health Commissioner King is more
than pleased with the favorable turn
in the smallpox situation. Not a single
new case, that is. a breaking out in a
| new quarter, has occurred since three
weeks ago. and those who have been
afflicted nave, by the splendid treat
! ment given in the isolation hospital
/ either come out Of the scourge I'M
! harmed or are rapidly recovering.
/ Since the breaking out on Dec. IL
there have been thirty -nine cases, and
! several of these were Of the continent
/ type, but the majority were mild. The
/ quarantine has been strictly main
! tanned wherever occasion required, and
/ now 1t seems likely that the last case
] viii be stamped out in another week
I or ten days.
/ The quarantine over Fire Chief De-
/ vines home will be raised today. All
/ the other cases at the pest house are
recovering rspidsy. -Four of the Wray
| girls were released yesterday, and by
Monday the number of patients will be
/ TeGuced TO ten. all cOnyalescents Jas.
| per Hobbs, aged 20, and Pearl Hobbs.
/ aged 1S viii be taken there today,
| they yesterday having developed mild
| cases IN their quaTantiIed home in the
/ southwestern part of the city. Now all
but one Of the family of nine have had
the disease.
Tie situation has cleared up so salts
factOTily that the board of health Will
permit the opening of the public schools
on Monday, and Sunday school sessions
viii be resumed as usual today.
me urgency Of hearing the Cox anti
vaccination appeal case on Tuesday has
ceased TO exist en- account OF the school
boards determination to open the
schools without restriction, and the
hearing viii go over till. next week
when the full membership of the su-
pTeIne court viii be on the bench.
Health Commissioner King was asked
yesterday by The Herald what reply
he had to make relative to Rabbi Loe- /
wenstein's public censure Friday night
Of the health boards action.
DR.. Kings Defense.
Rabbi L0eWenstein is mistaken in
his conception of the authority exer-
cised by the bOasd of health" said DR. 4
King, in reply. The object of this
board is not to exercise authority and
show its power for the sake of the ex-
ercise and the show. 1t is to serve the /
people of this city and to prevent dis
ease. The greatest glory of the med /
zeal profession and its highest aim is
not to cure, but to prevent disease.
The board Of health has kept that aim
in view and has not been influenced in
any respect by the post hoe arguments
and fictitious statistics of those i'm
pedimeqts TO sanitary sciences who eS-l
t7blish characterization societies and
are found at the aggressive end of law
suits.
when danger Of the spread Of small
poX was imminent in this city, the
board Of health established a rule that
none but vaccinated children should en-
ter school. After waiting sufficient
time for all exposed persons to pass the
incubation, period and finding that no
new cases developed, the duty Of the
board was plainly to advise the open
ing of the schools again The ordinance
under which this board acted prescTibes
that it shall use all due measures to
prevent the spread of contagious dis
eases. When the board Of health no
longer deemed that measure necessary
to preserve the public health. it would
have been Unjustifed in pursuing that
course.
NO member Of the board of health
has ever been accused of cowardice, and
it is not true that the board took this
action from such a motive. 1t required
far more courage to act as they did
anticipating the unjust ana ilI-eonsid-
cred criticism which the rabbi heaps
upon them. than it would have taken =
to sit down and sulk and say, We viii
keep the schools closed. right or wrong
to show you we have this power The
board prefers to braveiy do the right
even at the expense of being mis-
judged"
An Irish Illustration
Continuing his replication, Health ;
Commissioner King said: There was
once a native of che ould SOD named
Milo OsRToToxr rtrho. coma IN orrY- land of
liberty to work on the railroad section.
The loving smell Of peat smoke had
scarcely evaporated from his hair when
he was made boss Said he TO his old
friend, Patrick Burke, Pat, I discharge
ye It's not that We cont do your work
well, ard it's not that ye amt a good
man. but it's to show the authority
have over ye, dom We
The board Of health remarked Dr.
King, does not take the attitude Of
the Irishman. 1t has no desire 10 use
its authority tyTannically or fer the
purpose OF paTading it. but only in the
line of its dTty as a guardian Of the
public health, and so It viii continue to
use ii. rega rd5ess of the bowling inhab-l
itants who belong to the fourteenth
century. with their fantastic conception
Of personal liberty on the one hand.
or the laW-zbi6ing. but ineOnsideratei
citizen, on the other.
1t does seem 10 me that before COM
ing out IN a public manner and trying
to Giscre0it the board of health and
belittle itg authority and influence, the
rabbi should have taken the trouble to-
investigate the motives of our actions
instead of judging entirely by appear
anceS
The board of health" concluded DR..
King sis satisfied that the infractiOn
of its rule to close Sunday schools by
some of the religious denominations
was occssi0ned by a apprehension
Of its authority and a belief that the
publication Of such a rule must come
from the mayor. Such organizations
had agreed u obey the rule before it
was abrOgated."
The health departments report for
the week shows eighteen eases Of scar !
LEI fever and two OF diphtheria under
quarantine and one new case Of IS.
uhOid fever reported. Only three new
cases Of smallpox we're taken 10 the.
pest house last Wessa and these were
Of the varioloid type The deaths for
the week We're eighteen, exclusive of
three bodies brought from outside the
city for internent, and the births re I
ported numbered thirty-seTen-
Fatal DELAYS are caused by expert
menGng with cough and cold cures.
FOIeyis Honey and Tar VIII prevent a