OCR Text |
Show 1 Regulations In Camp Now Very Strict Town And County Au-J Au-J thorities Join Hands To Stamp Out Epidemic United States ( Representative Assisting In Work Wearing Of Masks Is Made Compulsory Stores And AH Business Houses Arc Required To Close At Six P. M. . The influenza situation has reached a criqal state in. Bingham and in I - order; to prevent a further spread of the epidemic the authoritfes have ad- I opted the most rigid precautionary measures, Euch as the compulsory : wearing of face masks, closing of all places of business at six o'clock in tho evening, the maintaining of . a strict quarantine of all homes where anyone Is affected with the disease I and the officers are prepared to see that the regulations- are enforced to - the letter. The town board' met In extra ses- sion Tuesday afternoon and this meet-: meet-: ing was attended by Dr. W. S. Harri-: Harri-: son, assistant surgeon United States health service, who Is now assisting 1 the state board of health, and after discussing the situation here It was f decided that some drastic measures I were necessary to stamp out the dis- - ease. Accordingly a resolution requiring re-quiring the wearing of face masks was adopted, and shortly thereafter the circulars and window cards were printed and distributed throughout "the camp. 1 Dr Harrison also prepared a circular circu-lar iRwhich he offered the most feasible plan for combatting the disease, dis-ease, such as has met with success itt other communities affected with the disease. Dr. Harrison has been '" 'here during the past week in the In- , terest of the work and ho will prob-abfy prob-abfy be here for another week or I - -longer. He say the situation in this f ' , "amp is more serious than any other fjownfhas visited." He believes in. 1 using Vvery" available weapon for lighting the disease and is a strong I i Reliever Jn the tfUcaey of inoculation as a preventat --4. He said this meth- '- od had not bce'a runy aemonBUTnt-u that the prevailing belief in the niedi-' cal science' was that a person who had been Inoculated was practically immune. Also this treatment Is in V I no wise injurious and causes but little iilr.TMivenience. Quite a number ' of peoifiJPuere have already taken the treatmeui, . The seriousness of the epidemic has now been on the increape for more than two weeks. Society hall has been turned into an emergency hospital and a large number of patients have been . cared for there during the past week. The nurses are worked over ' tlmeiand the number at hand is not sufficient to administer to the sick. The people of the camp generally are responding to the instruction of ' orders, and the very day that the res-' res-' i olutlon went Into effect making the wearing of face masks compulsory al-r al-r most everyone who appeared on the street had on a mask. There was a run on the stores for masks Tuesday evening and the Red Cross workers remained at .headquarters till a late hour Tuesday night preparing masks for the crowds who waited to receive them. 'Early Wednesday morning the stores had a supply sufficient t accommodate ac-commodate the people. ' With the' care which Is now being observed it is hoped that tbe epi- demlc will soonbe under con'r.'l. |