Show WOMEN TAKE AGTIOrtl c i I iI I To AsslstInStampihg Out Scarlet 1 1 Fever 4 SITUATION CAUSES ALARM I MOVT OF LAY CLUB I SECTION I I At a Meetiag Held Yesterday It Was Decided to Take Steps Looking to I Providing a Remedy For the Evil 1 61 Tnt Has 23n Pointed Ot Re I centy By The Herd I As pointed out by The Herald at different dif-ferent times during the last six weeks there has been a heavy increase in the number If scarlet fever cases In Sal Lake during the last six months At no time since the health department was organize has the malady been so prevalent and citizens generally but more especially those with children have become seriously alarmed The club omen of Sal Lake decided yesterday that it was time for them to tae a hand In the matter The home and educational s ton of the Ladies Literary club held a meeting sterday at which the subject was brougnt tp and discussed al considerable length This section is the practical working committed of the club and Its work for the next few months will be along the lines of sanitation Time to Tae Acton I was decided at yesterdays meeting that the time had come rr some concerted con-certed acton to be taken To this end a special committee will take the matter mat-ter up and see if something can be done to prevent a further spread of the disease The state board of health and the Salt Lake County Medical so clety will be asked to cooperate with the women They will be asked to suggest sug-gest a means of stamping out the trouble trou-ble whic Is causing much serious alarm In so many Salt Lake homes aarm The committee of the club will visit I the officials of the public schools with a vIew to seeing if anything is lacking I In the sanitation of the various build Ings The school board will be asked to have aU the structures under its control thoroughly cleaned during the Taksgivin holidays and a commit tee will also visit the buildings tG s that nothing calculated to keep the fever In cheek has ben neiected One Mean of Prevention As a possible means of preventing contagion through school association the state board of health will beaked be-aked to issue a circular explaIning In simple terms what the premonitory symptoms of scarlet fever are I is hoped that this circular will be Issued and place In the hands oC all parents who have children in the public schools By this method I is believed much danger from contagion can be averted i It would b possible when parents see one of theIr children affected with any of the symptoms describ to take the child out of school and Isolate It until It jould be definitely ascertained whether or not It was being attacked b the disease It Is charred that one of the reasons for the prevalence of scarlet fever at this time Is the carelessness or some 1 physicians In reporting case even aft af-t r the are well marked Again many I cases are obscure in character and It Is hard to say definitely that I Is genuine gen-uine scarlet fever until some time has elapsed In the meanwhile the chid has bee allowed to see visitors ort or-t perhaps to play on the streets or evel I go to school Suspects Not Isolated Thus those who have come in contact con-tact with the little one are liable to an attack of the fever I SUSD2Cte cases were at once isolate and quarantined quar-antined In a rational way the people who are agitated over the mater think a great deal or the danger would be done away with Again It Is stated that In few cases of scarlet fever Is the quarantine rigidly enforced Pee I I pIe where a case Is being treated go freely In and out ThC attend to their usual vocations and mingle with their I business associates without thinking of the carelessness of their proceeding New cass are developed every day by this means and it is charged that there 1s no telling where the contagion vlli stop unless prompt measures to check It are adopted The health report for the week that I ended yesterday shows a total or thlr J tslx case In the city I Is thought that possibly haIr that many more have I not ben reported and It Is the unreported un-reported cases that do most of the damage I |