| Show DID OP DIPHTHERIA Zeita Belle Daughter of Police Sergeant Ser-geant Wire the Victim Zeita Belle aged 8 years child of Police Sergeant Frank C Wire died yesterday morning of diphtheria I is intimated that at no time since the now dead child was attacked bv a malignant form of diphtheria last Sunday Sun-day had medical attendance been summoned sum-moned and because of the fact that Sergeant Wire and his wife are Christian Chris-tian Scientists some comment has been indulged in The sergeants explanation explana-tion however would indicate that there is no ground for criticism as he thought the child was suffering from mumps which is epidemic However the nature of the case is of this sort Undertaker Joseph Wil lam Taylor reported the death of Zeita Belle Wire to Health Officer Dalby yesterday morning By referring to his record of contagious diseases the physician phy-sician found that he had been notified of no such case He started at once for the Wire residence at 83 I street between First and Second streets and found that not only had the deceased been a sufferer from malignant diphtheria diph-theria but that the two other children of the Wire family were dangerously ill with the same disease Dr Dalby placed a rigid quarantine upon the residence resi-dence dencehen When seen yesterday afternoon Dr Dalby said that the episode had caused a little uneasiness in the neighborhood as he had understood that several children had visited the Wire residence resi-dence since the prevalency of the disease dis-ease in that quarter I asked the sergeant why he had not reooited the case He explained that the child was taken ill last Sunday Sun-day with what they had termed the mumps or as it was exactly nut the little girl had caught it He said that he had no idea the disease was dinh theria and really did not know it was necessary to report the matter I look upon the affair as unfortunate because of the stories about visiting children Mr and Mrs Wire deny that any I 1 children had come to the lace which I hope is the fact for the safety of the community The body of the dead child was ordered buried at once I found a I resting olace in the city cemetery |
