The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-30

/ is danger thereof, it shall De lawful for
/ boards Of health TO prescribe such rules
; as they think necessary. The amend
ment was left in the air temporarily
CHILE the debate went on.
Bishop Gardner Of Utah started of
by saying he hadn't intended to speak
al all The fear of the medical fra
ternity seemed TO be that Utah would
have smallpox epidemic. If that
were true, ne thought the doctors
ought to wait until the epidemic broke
loose before they demanded the en-
actment Of stringent measures When
InaI time arrived he was sure the peO-
pie would rise to the occasion. The
physicians hadn't been able TO convince
him that vaccination would prevent
smallpox II had been his experience
that a large percentage of vaccinated
people contracted the disease.
McFarIand's Experience.
Uncle" Archibald Mcfarland. IA
3 ther OF the house. started his talk by
asking Gardner II he had heard Of
school children carrying any disease
germs he bishop replied that he had
never heard of such a case. ''rhat
mas Deen my experience" continued
MI Mcfarland Then he told of a
neighbor OF his who was vaccinated
last year and who hasn't yet recover
ed from ii. Several children of his &C
7 quaintance were i'll several months al
ter being vaccinated. 7 don't believe
vaccination is a preventive" Mr. Me-
Farland concluded. "1hs medical pro-
fession has changed its opinion on
: other matters and L believe it is likely
20 change its opinion on this"
Don c Johnson of Utah admitted
that he had his private opinion of she
BILL What that opinion was was of
no consequence to the house or to the
people His constituents to the tune
OF I'VE TO one We're in favor of the
measure, and he proposed TO cast his
vote in favor of it,
Axton's Amendment.
John T. Axton next came to the front
with an amendment. IL provided that
/ in the event of a SMALLPOX epidemic
the boards of health should have the
power TO separate vaccinated from I'M
vaccinated children in the schools. He
thought this amendment would sim
pity matters cOnsiderab bly,. Most of
the mem bers, or many of them, were
IN favor of the bill because they had
received petitions from their cOnstitu-
entS in favor Of il. Now many of
you doubtless remember that not long
ago the greatest petition ever prepared
IN this country was submitted to con-
greSS and as a result b. II. Roberts
was excluded. How many of you en-
dorse that action?" Mr.. Axton asked.
Nobody nodded an affirmative.
Chairman Williams of the public
health committee followed Axton. He
spoke quite briefly in advocacy Of the
proposed law and Mcmillan, author of
the measure, closed the debate. "A
certain journal in this town" said Mr.
Mcmillan, has taken the ground that
the massage of this bill would be class
legislation. 1 do not believe this. 1
had man come to me this afternoon
i don't care 70 say what kind either
religiously or otherwise. This man
said he had canvassed a certain build
ing. He found 90 per cent of the oc-
cupants on the outside and a large
majority OF that 90 per cent favored
this bill.
Opposed to Compulsion.
I want to say that I am not in IA
VOr Of compulsory vaccination or COM
pulsiOn Of any kind that is wrong
want to say that from 80 to so per cent
Of the people OF salt Lake, not the ig-
norant classes, as the doctors say, are
in favor of the bill. The doctors them
selves do not agree. In the joint ses-
sion of the health committees one gen
tleman, I think it was DR.. Beatty said
that a certain disease which developed
on young mans body was not the
result o. vaccination.
DIT Richards thought Well, it
might, it may have been from vaccina-
ton and it may not, I cannot say
believe Dr. Richards is an experienced,
practical physician, and he was TOO
conscientious to cOmpiicate matters,
although he belongs to the same school
as DR.. Beatty. / am not certain IN
my own mind whether vaccination is a
good thing O. not, but I am not preju-
diced, as some say we are 1 resent
that im9utation."
Here Mr.. Mcmillan read a lengthy
article from. q New York health jour
nal against vaccination. He also cited
number Of prominent men of Eng
land and the United States who do not
believe IN the theory. Concluding, he
referred to the meeting of physicians
Monday night. at which one of them
referred to the Observation-Disclosures as
hounds swapping at the heels of sci
enCe- He also took his friend DR..
Wright to task for saying that talking
in favor of vaccination before the leg
isiatUTe was like shaking a red rag
in the face of a bull
The first vote was on Smiths amend
ment. 1t was lost without division.
AxtOn's amendment met the same fate.
on the passage of the bill the only
negatives were Hall, Lambert, Sharp.
Smith, Stuart and Van Horne. As has
already been stated, Holzheimer and
Page were absent.
AXtOn and Hamlin said later that
they voted for the bill so that they
could move reconsideration later.
Speaker Glasmaun declared that he be
lieved in compulsory vaccination. He
voted for the bill because he knew the
governor would veto il and he proposed
to DE heard when the measure comes
back from the executive.