| Show owl 0 mm MM 42 M baw MIL JL CL aft LJ laa ada awk f 0 TA fig M N CM JK V JL jle 0 0 ALI LAL va VJ 47 minimum of influenza cases is used 0 al argument for opening up of activities in this city by some of the business men others oppose it declaring it unsafe eight new cases in vernal and ashley valley vahey during the last nine days the situation in county much improved the influenza situation as far as aa vernal and ashley valley is con corned is clearing up rapidly in the last nine days there have been tour four new cases reported in the valley and in the same period four new cases have been quarantined in vernal city in vernal there are now 10 quarantine flags up on homes and by monday six of them will be down leaving tour flags with about ten tea cases the ri he cleared up situation has served as an incentive tor lor an agitation tor some action to be taken as to opening activities up A few of the business men have expressed themselves as favoring this plan as an health conditions warrant it ahey express however a desire for continued lence and care to be used by persons both in ID the matter manor of quarantine and remaining homo home when feeling indisposed p there are othera however who are still holding out on the tight quarantine and close dup order which is nowlin force and has baa been since oct 12 it is indeed a perplexing one to take action on the tour four new cases reported in vernal city are henry moore jack miller lorn lom wilkerson and ray haab ach son of mrs mary kelsey none of the cases are pronounced as serious and all are getting along nicely ibe flags which are up and which will bo be taken down tomorrow are in the cases of the family of don B colton henry erickson judge me bounel david hill dr J W stevens and J P F east there are four cases at the vernal hospital who with the exception ot of mr bir moore will soon be released those at the hospital are conrad franks henry moore goo geo bond and mr bates in ashley valley the new cases reported in the period are goo geo luck geo McCur dys family K hatch and P J neilson mr luck and mr neilson are considered to be the most severely sick while the other cases are pronounced as light other than these cases there are 14 mage up in the valley the biggest part ot or which will be removed the tore part of f next week reports from the eci show that it is quieting up the cases rp reported ported at dry fork ate aie getting along nicely our correspondents cover the lases cases I 1 elsewhere where individual mention is made on the whole the situation looks much improved we reprint an article which ap feared in the boxelder Box elder tremonton Tre monton utah leader and is as follows ahe matter of handling the in situation over the country is a perplex perplexing ono ona the disease appears to baffle the bet of the medical fraternity all manner of meth oda of control are suggested and among those most frequently advanced is to close all public gatherings such as dances churches i picture shows and an d pool halla halls of these the only one upon which it is agreed that special harm must inevitably from is the dances dancea medical men inen all over the country believe that dances ars are a harm barm differ ent men giving different views view eltis tes to the extent of the harm however as to closing ud u the other places mentioned there are no longer many who advocate it wille hile on the other hand band there ere are a great majority who delare it to be ba utter folly the reasons are advanced that any place where people may gather be it in a grocery store etore drug store posto fAce pool hall church or picture theatre or on the street may offer an opportunity for com coca muni cating the disease in a talk with dr T B beatty of the state board of health he stated to the writer that the day of 0 closing up a town had passed that in many instances it was the proper thing to do when the disease was in its epidemic stage but that after five or six weeks the epidemic stage had passed and that it resolved itself into a matter of controlling the disease abany other contagious disease is controlled except perhaps more vigorously he says the history of the influenza is that it continues its course for about three years and that to close up any community to be et fectea would mean to close it tor for which would paralyze pnra par lize alize its ita industries and prevent men from earning a living tor for their families the authorities are a unit that every person manifesting a symptom of influenza should be quarantined and quarantined RIGIDLY further he suggests the passing by cites of an ordinance prohibiting persons with coughs colds and who are sneezing from appearing on the streets or in public places without a certificate of a physician showing them to be free from influenza this certificate to bo be ready tor for the inspect tion of any officer not only a should hould the ordinance be passed but it SHOULD BE ENFORCED to close up the activities of it a community dr beatty says Is evidence that that community concedes it is unable to protect itse itsek of the criminally careless and indifferent and purposes to quarantine the well the writer is in possession of a report by the united states bureau of census of the influenza epidemic from september to november in twenty of the largest cities of the country new york largest and most congested of them all had a death rate of 3 8 9 per cent per thou sand while fifteen others had bad high er death rates boaden a few miles mile away having a death rate of 6 5 6 five div of the others had a slightly lower death rate strange wt at it may seem NEW YORK DID NOT CLOSE AT ALL ITS SCHOOLS CHURCHES THEATRES I 1 AND ALL ALI PUBLIC PLACES DEUNG BEING OPEN AS USUAL while on the other hand ALL THESE WERE CLOSED IN ALL OF THE OTHER 1 19 CITIES garfield county this state has not yet lifted the ban placed on by the state board of health the people of that county wire beginning to think they had eradicated the disease however than a thousand cases suddenly developed and the condition Is awful the writer had the opportunity of inspecting a letter from the health officer of ali county and in it ite he stated that he had traced the outbreak to the fact that a certain person had visited all over the county while suffering from the disease think what this one afflicted individual indi bidual liss baa bronchi up op on the people of his c county ou nty lie ho had done that which the highest and noblest humanitarian would suggest he would have remained at home and a quarantine would have been established the letter was dated january and stated THEY HAD DECIDED TO BEGIN quarantining THOSE WITH THE DISEASE so long as those suffering from the disease run about and so ao A o long as persons are permitted to come coma and go from the sick rooms of the afflicted at will so long will the the disease rage and all closing that I 1 could be done would amount to noth ing except to spread hysteria and financial panic in tremonton Tre monton everything has bon open tor for weeks but the strictest sort of quarantine has been imposed by the city health officer and the result Is seen in the small number of cases that have been developed since the crest of the epidemic was waa le ached Brigi brigham sim city has had a recur rence reace of the disease to the extent of about cases the papers there cite numerous instances where persons persona are invited to enter houses where the aisea disease 80 I 1 is fa pr present es e 11 t th the 0 family or the patient giving the visitor no warning of the presence of the malady until he to Is in the room and exposed such conduct is positively criminal and it la is to such indifference that the chief spread of the disease may be attributed jack miller of the uintah motor garage garag 6 co is reported sick with the flu this thia Is said eaid to be the second time that he has contracted this |
