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Show Diphtheria. At the n;eeiicK of the city council, last evening, tue c i'y quur ii.tin-pbyuicuu, ii.tin-pbyuicuu, D-. oeymair ti Yjiiuii, mado a a'.atL-mcn- in regard to t:ir prevalent in tho city of diphtheria. He said be did not think tho disnase a.2 general as uome physiciaLs would lead people- to inlur, but thought there was a degree of carol tiSaiie-et: m inifett-.d by Borne physicians iu vijitiu patients, or families where there arc uo cases ot diphtheria, after having attended 'children suffering from the complaint. Ho therefore asked the couueel it some restrictions could not ba placed on too free cum uiuuicalicrn between persons sucn as where persons attend the funerale of others who have died from the eOects of diphtheria. Ho did not suggest quarantine, and stated that it had not become an established fact, that diphtheria was cuutagious, bui in view of the fact that it is still a questiun, he tuges'-ed the wisdom di taking every precaution to prevent pre-vent its spread shot) id it really prove ' infectious. He, there. ore, asked if it would t not. be advisable to.-.- publish, some sug geetions 1 or restrict tons in regard to diphtheria in the daily journals. A very general, expression was indulged in-dulged iu by the members of tbe council, and the prevailing idfia wa to prevent children from attending funerals, or' going to pi -tees where the disease of diphtheria existed, or bad recently existed; and it wa tbe sense of the council that Dr. Young, as an officer of the citv. cnrumunioAlfi tn thr people through the journii's euggeal-ruc euggeal-ruc Bnch precuitions and restrictions in the matter he deemed advisable under existing circumstances. |