Show f I. I INFLUENZA RAPIDLY ABATING IN BASIN Roosevelt Correspondent Declares Report That Disease Was paging Rag Ha Raging ing In That and amI Vernal Vernal yer- yer Ver Ver- nal Was E Exasperated Exaggerated crated 9 Collett By R R. R S. S Collett As Aa I camp came into the basin the other I Iday day I I Iwas was solemnly Informed at Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- i chesne that there were six funerals that da day In Vernal and had been six the day before Saturday In Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt t from m the tho In influenza and that the flu fiu was was j just st raging in each place The In Influenza has been a terrible scourge throughout the nation and the tho toll of or death has been very large Indeed but how prone to exaggeration exaggeration exaggeration ex ex- ex- ex are we and how madam rumor does love to distort the tho truth This rumor does Individuals Individuals individuals Indi Indi- and communities very grave J. J Injustice and how much better It would be if we ascertained the truth Lruth before passing on such news and inflicting In- In Dieting wrong and Injury on individuals Individuals Individuals and communities r On reaching Roosevelt I learned that Woody and Mona Ale Alexander had contracted the In Influenza in Salt Lake gone gone from there to the cow cow camp in f Willow creek went riding the I range t nursing what what- they supposed was was was' wasa a abad abad bad cold They slept In wet bedding owing to the storm were brought home very sick alck and died of oC ced by the enza Will WUl Alexander a younger brother v eo come down from rom Altonah to o nurse his hla brothers P People ople were so afraid arald of the disease that tha proper help could not be had Through sheer physical too exhaustion WA WAo o so lO reduced l In vitality That that when he took the dial dia- dia dla- dla Is- Is l ease case he soon succumbed From I these two cases fr from m Salt BaIt Lake Lak there have been 12 cases all li told in Roosevelt and of the the 12 eases cases two of which w were re Bra Dra Moro Morr Mor Mor- rr r o v ton and Whitmore there have hav been the three deaths I IThe The disease seemingly has passed away there being no now new cases and andall Fall all these cases were confined confined tc to the families Into which the disease was f introduced by the two original cases In Jn Cedarview Tommy Todds Todd's fam the contagion from Salt Lake L ke There were two deaths In the family Several of those exposed were confined with the disease but up to last reports all recovered In the eaSt east five weeks seems to have been the duration of the contagion con con- In n S Salt lt Lake it Itis ls abating One of the peculiar turns of the contagion seems to be Its severity on the young and strong while the tIle older lder people veople are all but Im Immune n from It I t was informed by one of the physicians physicians clans in charge of the Ogden epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic the place where th the disease seemed the most most severe in n the state that In his knowledge of It there were were but tw two cases out of the thousands thousands thou thou- 1 sands sands Pd there he e ove over th the age of 40 40 years ar Tills This should be remembered where the epidemic is bad and let t the e older ones es accustomed to nursing vol volunteer i ito to help In nursing I m moved to writing on this sub sub- sub subject j sect t fo f for the reason ea oc tit that t the disease J having it spent Us its force It H soon soon c disappear disappear I appe and arid our schools will willi be bev opened v n c g fn t I I beg that the p patrons of ot the Duchesne High school will understand underStand understand un un- that Roosevelt v lt has bas not been scourged with the epidemic as ex ox ex- rumor would o d have 8 e r yon you u behove believe be be- hove lieve and that If the state author author- author author- sties le permit t the scho school l to be bo opened on November 18 as Is now pow contemplated c contemplated plated plated i f c by Iby the l e school schoot bo board rd you will let the boys and girls return to school here and complete what pro promised d In the beginning to be tho the best school year year of the history of the basin One word word further futher as to the health of your your students while here at school Some have complained that Roosevelt had no sure source of good goodwater goodwater water and that students were liable to S sickness kr ss fi from ni tills ls source source Roosevelt Ii Is now now ow completing a four mile pipe line Into late tho the city and rc connecting on n f It up with the city ser- ser Tee pipes that takes the water from froma a 6 CdO O foot toot artesian well and from well developed well protected springs In Ip the In-the the t e hills wes west of town and Insures the town of an abundant pure water supply A that cannot be contaminated con con- tar laminated and that has been by the st state tt chemist and pronounced sweet and pure a |