The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-28
ANNUAL FIGURES
ON SMALLPOX
Board of Health Report Will Show
40 Cases Last Year.
rs PATIENTS SINCE JAN.
TOM RILEY WAITS AT JOINT
BUILDING FOR AMBULANCE.

The annual report of the city board
of health. which is being compiled by
Horace Smith, clerk of the board, VIII
show that during 1902 there were
120 cases of smallpox in Salt Lake.
OF that number ninety-seven were res
idents of the city and twenty-three
were non-residents. Since the semi
epidemic of that disease in Salt Lake,
which began in 1899, the number of
cases each year, including 1903 from
Jan. 1 to the closing of the office last
evening, were as follows: 1899, 4 cases;
1900, Az; 1901, 643; 1902, 120; 1903, IS
If the disease continues in the future
as ii has since the first of the year, 1903
will prove record breaker
The annual report viii show the fol-
lowing interesting figures relative to
the smallpox cases during last year:
Idiosyncracies of Disease.
OF the ninety-seven residents who
males and fifty-two females. Ninety
six We're white people and one was col
Ored. Eighty-eight had never been
vaccinated, vaccination failed utterly
in three Instances, and in the remain
ing six cases the period of immunity
had expired The following statistics
show the age period of the persons
who contracted the disease:
Between the ages of 1 and 6 years
seventeen children had the disease;
to Is years. twenty-five; Is to %.
twenty-five; 25 to 40, twenty-eight; A
to So, four: over 65, but one person
contracted it.
OF the twenty-three non-residents
who caught smallpox while in the city
last year, twenty-five were male and
one was a woman. Twenty-Five had
not been vaccinated, and one had. All
of them were whites. Sixteen Of the
patients were between the ages of Is
and 20. and seven were between 25 and
IS years of age.
Only two cases of smallpox were
yesterday reported to the board. One
Of them, the case of Miss Nellie Tay-
Tor, aged p, daughter of Stanley Tay-
Tor. VINO resides at 704 West Third
North street. is directly traceable to
the dance given Just before Christmas
which was attended by Miss Hartman
when her face and hands were broken
out. Clayton Taylor, a brother of Miss
Taylor, attended the dance. Within
the prescribed time he developed the
disease, and was sent to the isolation
hospital where he is still confined. Miss
brother before he was placed in quar-
antine.
Brought Disease From Leadville.
The other case reported to the board
was that Of Thomas Riley. He is a
resident of Leadville Colo, where he
contracted the disease. It did not
make its appearance until yesterday.
He had only been in the city a few
days. When the rash broke out on
his face and hands ne suspected what
was the matter with him, and yester-
day morning paid his respects to the
offices of the board of health in the
basement of the joint building. After
his case had been diagnosed Riley went
outside and stood on the lawn in the
wind awaiting the arrival of the am
bulance to take him TO the isolation
hospital.
Eight cases of scarlet fever We're
reported yesterday, six being in one
family The patients are James -Mackey
and wife, residing at 4 washington ave
nue., Eighth ward, and their four chill
dren-Peter, aged 9: Orange, Z: Albert.
D; jeanette, 8 months. The other two
cases were RalstOn Cleveland, aged 10.
AS South First West street, and little
Miss Lyman, aged 2, $40 L street.