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Show HEALTH MEETING AT WHICH IlflillS TO"' CHECK 'FLU' . A meeting of the city commissioners, commission-ers, the city board of health, physicians physi-cians and business men of the city was held yesterday afternoon at o'clock in the council chamber, at the city hall, to discuss matters pertaining to the combatting of the epidemic of Influenza In-fluenza in the city of Ogden. The meeting was presided over by Mayor T. S. Browning who briefly explained ex-plained to the assembly the purpose of the meeting and asking for a full and frank discussion so that the wisest methods might be adopted and that the clear course of victory over tho epN demic might be kept in mind. The mayor then called on Dr. W. S. Harrison, assistant surgeon United States public health service, to make a statement to the meeting out of his experience on the Pacific coast, and in other parts of Utah. Briefly, Dr. Harrison Har-rison said that no general directions for overcoming this epidemic could possibly be given, that cities differed in the manner of their climatic situation, situa-tion, and civic equipment, but as a general statement the more restriction Ogden can have tho better. , "I am here to say, gentlemen, that I am prepared to go as far as you will let me In this matter of restriction." ; u J", HarrIson then concluded, saying tbat it would be better for the meeting to express itself and for him to address himself of difficulties on questions when every opportunity had been given giv-en and taken for a free inquiry into every aspect of the situation. Then, of many voices, and much speaking, there was enough demonstration demon-stration to prove that Ogdenites are a people of the forum. Yet in the statements state-ments that were made for and against a ncntirc quarantine of the city, there ran the evident purpose of every man to do the thing that was best for Ogden, Og-den, no matter how much it might cost him personally In dollar and cents. To gave lives was the agreed proposition proposi-tion in every man's mind. Hero and there members of tho assembly as-sembly allowed the matter under discussion dis-cussion to become clouded by vain, though eloquent and jealous, references refer-ences to Salt Lake. "Why should Ogden Og-den close all its stores while Salt Lake remains open?" queried one who pleaded for the quarantining of the entire sttae, and every community of the state, if Ogden should bo quaian- tined. i I A Salt Lake paper was referred to I again and again as quoting inaccur-1 ately the deaths In October and November No-vember as 225 until a Standard man rose to explain that the Salt Lake paper pa-per ought not to bear so heavy a weight of blame since the same figures appeared in tho Standard of the evening eve-ning before and were quoted in an ar- j tide with a representative official 'who gave the figures. Inquiry by tho meeting showed, when returns came in' from the Health Board, that the figures were too nearly accurate to allow any quibbling about thpm. and I then Dr. Harrison said "The situation situa-tion here has been and is a good deal j more serious than any newspaper 'has I yet mentioned." Another cloud over the issue came j from when of the men referred to this "agitation" for closing up the city as being inspired by tho picture show and theater men. "Don't try to hurt your ! neighbor," he said, "try to help him." I Mr. Skinner of the Alhambra protested ! that nothing was further from the "show men's minds" than to hurt any business or business man. "We can't do any business. What we want to do is "to adopt the method by means f ...UI.1. ..I. nil nil Vin Artlnrr Vlici- Ul Villlt.il SI1UII till uuiub uua' ness at the same old stand in the same big way SOON." The mayor entered Into the discussion discus-sion to point out that it was irrelevant irrele-vant to speak of Salt Lake at all. "Let Salt Lake look after its own. We are hero this, afternoon to devise means for the 'preservation of the public pub-lic health of Ogden city." The Rev. John Edward Carver, who has done such magnificent service throughout tho epidemic, was called upon and he substantiated the statement state-ment of Dr. Harrison, saying. "If you could have been with me to see the state of many of the homes where sufferers lie with none to help, you would describe the situation, not asi serious, but as appalling." Heber Scowcroft, in whose home there has been a flood of this sickness, sick-ness, joined in the discussion to repeat re-peat that every business man was anxious to adopt the method that would end the epidemic, but he warned warn-ed the meeting that it might be possible possi-ble by closing the town to work desperate des-perate hardship on many who depend for their living on the conduct of stores and business places. j Mr. John Lewis also pointed out flirt nnsclhil ifx- of ri'rnHnr n rt nennftmir situation which would be as bad as the ''disease for wage earners. "What we! should do is to quarantine, not the 1 man who is well, but tho man who is 1 sick." T. G. Burt arose at several points in the meeting to reiterate the dosire of the business men to "down" the. epidemic. Eventually the idea of a strict quarantine rigidly enforced won over the meeting and a business men's committee was appointed by the mayor may-or to take action with the city Board of health, on the understanding that whatever this reinforced committee should require, to be done would be backed up whole-heartedly by the : ! business concerns of the city. The committee appointed is T. S. ; Browning, Mayor; George Shorten, Dr. ; W. R. Brown, H. M. Rowe, J. N. Spargo, and T. G. Burt. The meeting then adjourned and the '. committee met at 8 o'clock l.st night to draw up rules and regulations for the city's defense against the disease. |