Salt Lake Herald | 1899-01-21 | Page 8 | Scarlet Fever Epidemic

SCARLET FEVEB EPIDEMIC Much Sickness Prom That Cause at Tooele Special Correspondence Tooele Ja 20 Tooele has just passed through an epidemic of scarlet fever dur ins the last two weeks when as mayas may-as sis and seven families have been quarantined quar-antined at the same time The prevalence of the disease is largely due i Is believed to the la methods of the board of sanitation Instead of being prompt and vigorous In their dealings with tho epidemic The great majority of tho chldren have passed through the disease without being quarantined The schools have been depleted fully 5 per cent Fortunutely the epidemic has been in l a mild form yet two fatalities have u IJ the i rt one being the young child of Hon George F Richards