The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-01

position to the efficacy of vaccination"
4 have been opposed to it for twenty
years" interpOsed Mr. Thomas.
You are consistent resumed Ali
son. The men who vote for this
measure and do believe in the efficacy
OF vaccination, though, are most incOn-
sss&ant.
Suppose it were a cholera. epidemic
and this bill is broad enough to in
clude cholera and dfphtheria, tOo-this
bin would render the board of health
powerless to act, and cholera and diph-
liberia could rage through the state,
and where would we be2 Where would
our business interests be?
Effects of Vaccination.
It have had smallpox once and
know what it is. Vaccination is a
recognized preventative; why not let
the law remain as it is2' He read
several reports, showing that through
the enforcement Of compulsory Vacc1n-
ation in the public schools in Salt Lake
/ City during the months Of November,
December and January, the percent
age of smallpox cases among the pu-
pills had been greatly decreased dur
ing the present Epidemic Whereat
Mr. Smoot interjected, Alleged cpl
demic. emphasizing the word al
legged
ut is absolutely proven beyond a
D
in perfect health can communicate the
disease to another child in a school
! room through carrying the infection OF
smallpox in its clothes Here is another
proposition SuppOSin5 this bill IS
passed and becomes q law and the
state board of health should resign
and THIS dread disease should continue
to spread
Good Thing, Says Thomas.
H. r5-y-,-.,~s. i.,ta-r7,r,+ad again to
/ express the belief that he thought 1T
would be a good thing If the state board
of health should resign
Il am not going TO intimate that the
board viii resign, but suppose II should
and no physicians could be found to MI
there plaCes-then, I ask you, where
would we be2 ! was in Weber during
the terrible epidemic two years ago 1t
all resulted from the fact that COM
puls0ry vaccination regulations were
not enforced soon enough had small
poE as a boy and vas in the peSthouSe
and 1 saw victims there with the flesh
fairly falling from their bodies 1t all
resulted from the fact that the quar-
antine laws were not enforced. There
is absolute necessity of these sanitary
/ precautions and it is better for schools
to continue with Vaccinated children
than for the schools to be shut down
/ because Of q great epidemic OF the dis
Z ease
He read d letter from a physician in
SmithfieId to DR.. Beatty, in which II
was declared that ten days after -
children had been vaccinated they all
reported at the public school house
ready to resume their studies.
There are 121 towns in Utah that
nave now or have had an epidemic OF
/ smallpox. Sentiment in this matter IS
/ misdirected If the disease is not
stamped out if the mild form becomes
malignant, after we shall have tied up
/ the hands Of the board of health, l be-
i lieve the governor viii be compelled TO
/ reconvene the legislature to repeal this
( measure
Defended by Tanner
! With this statement the champion of
/ vaccination took his seat and Mr. Tan
ner had sol le things to say on the
/ ether side OF the question. i was
/ member of the legislature two years
! ago" ne said. when this law under
which the board of health is operating
/ was passed, and nothing was farther
from the minds of the legislature at
/ that time than to give the board the
/ power to compel vaccination as a con-
ditiOn precedent to the admission or
/ children TO she schools. At that time the
I legislators were impOrtuned by the
I pEysiciaHs of whom DR.. Beatty was
/ one, to make vaccination compulsory
( in the schools. Now, a majority OF the
I people OF the state do not believe that
vaccination is a good thing
/ Suppose" interrupted Mr. Allison,
] THAI a majority of the people of Utah
i believed the world was fat, wOuldn
3 it be a good thing TO correct the i'm
! preSsion?'
Mr.. Tanner continued: IF the board
Of health were to look more carefully
/ 10 the powers il already has 1t would
be better for the community. If the
board was to enforce the quarantine
rules it would be better. I know Of
a family not under quarantine, al
/ though there is q case of smallpox in
the house. The Mcmillan bin viii leg
isiate what il was designed to legislate
two years ago and in which the board
of health has found loop hole to com
peI vaccination IN the schools I for one
am not converted to the efficiency of
vaccination. The people Of this state
would revolt against the rule of the
board Of health if this bill is not passed.
The people are demanding in no uncer-
tain tones the passage of this measure
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