Show THE INFLUENZA dear deal 1 mr Edit editor cir As I 1 came into the basin tile the other day I 1 was solemnly informed at du chesna that there were six funerals that day in vernal and had been six the day before saturday in roosevelt from the influenza and that the flu was just raging in each place the influenza has been a terrible scourge throughout the nation and the toll of death lias has been very large indeed but how prone to exaggeration are wo we and how madam rumor does love to distort the truth this exa exaggerated rumor does individuals and communities very grave injustice ulia and how much better it would be it if we ascertained the truth before passing on oil such news and inflicting wrong and injury on oh individuals and communities on reaching roosevelt I 1 learned that woody and mona alexander had contracted the influenza in salt lake gone from there to the 06 cow camp in fit willow creek creck went riding the range nursing what they supposed was a bad cold they slept in wet bedding owing to the storm were brought home very sick and died of pneumonia super induced by the influenza will alexander a younger brother come down from Al allonas to nurse ills his brothers people were so afraid of the disease that proper help could not nol be had thru sheer physical exhaustion will was so reduced in ili vitality that when lie he took tile the disease ho he soon succumbed from these two cases brought in from salt lake there have been 12 cases all told in ili roosevelt and of the 12 cases two of which were drs morton and whitmore Whid nore there has been the three deaths the disease seemingly lias has passed away there being no new cases and tall these cases were confined to the families into which the disease was Intro introduce dued by the two original cases in Ced cedarview arview tommy todds dodds family brought the contagion from salt lake there were two deaths in the fa family farally raily several of those exposed were confined with the disease but up to last reports all recovered in the east five weeks seems to have been the duration ot of the contagion in salt lake it is abating one of the peculiar turns of tile the contagion seems to be its sev severity alty on the young and strong while the older people are all but immune from it I 1 was informed by one of 0 the physicians in charge of 0 the ogden epidemic the place where thai disease seemed the most severe in the state that in his knowledge of li if there thele were but two cases out of the thousands there over the age ot of 40 years tills this should be remembered where the epidemic is bad and let the older ones accustomed to nursing volunteer to help in nursing we ought not to fear the disease to such an extent t that hat we let those unfortunate i enough to have it suffer and die for the want of proper help I 1 am moved to writing on this subject for the reason that the disease having spent its force it will wili soon disappear and our schools will be opened again I 1 beg that the patrons of the duchesse Duche soe high school will understand that roosevelt has not been scourged urged with the epidemic as exaggerated exa rumor would have you bellevo believe and that it if the state authorities ties permit the school to be opened on the esth or oc Noy november ember as is now contemplated by the school board you will let the boys slid and girls return to school here and complete what promised in the beginning ot of tile the school year to be the best school year of the history of the basin I 1 one word further farther as to the health ot of your students while here at school some have complained that roosevelt had no sure source oz of good water and that students were liable to ito sickness from this source roosevelt is now nov completing a four mile pipe line into the city anu ana connecting it up with the city service pipes PI p C s that th at takes the hie water from a foot artesian well and irom from well developed well protected springs in the hills west of town una anu insures the town ot of an abundant pure water supply A ply that cannot be contaminated and that has been anali analyzed zed by the state slate chemist and pronounced sweet and pure pur very respectfully R S COLLETT roosevelt utah nov 9 1318 1918 |