Show mm DISUSE SPREAD CAUSES ALARM Victims of Diphtheria and Measles Seriously III in Al Almost Almost Almost most Every Part of City ALL RECORDS ARE BROKEN ROOMS IN SEVERAL SCHOOLS TEMPORARILY CLOSED 4 4 44 H t 4 4 OCTOBER RECORDS f 4 1907 1006 1 06 1905 f Diphtheria 23 z IS 16 i 3 f Measles 23 1 i f is days s f fM 4 M M 4 An epidemic of ot measles and diphtheria which it is feared will reach alarming pro proportions proportions proportions portions is sweeping over the city and the above abote comparison between the number of cases reported to the health department during the months of October 1905 and October 1906 and the first eighteen days of October this year ear shows this fact tact con conclusively conclusively The Increase in the tile number of cases of measles is the more noticeable but the increase In the number of diphtheria cases Is more alarming as the disease is much muel more to be b feared fear d There is one feature In the tile case of both maladies which is no noticeable and that is that the cases are re redistributed distributed all over the city and are not confined to any an one locality as is the case caso with the typhoid fever epidemic which is flourishing in the western and north northwestern northwestern northwestern western sections of the tile town No Schools Have Closed While none of the schools have hae been be n compelled to close because of diphtheria there have been several cases reported from the Jackson Oquirrh Emerson and Washington schools As is the custom in all such instances the room in which the victim of the th malady attended is closed for half halt a day da and thoroughly fumigated These frequent closings of ofa a room or two in various buildings have given rise in inthe Inthe Inthe the past to rumors that the whole school has been Jeen closed but according to D II It Christensen superintendent of or schools there Is no apparent danger of anything of this kind occurring Only yesterday esterday two rooms In the Emerson school were closed clos d during the tile morning but were opened again in the afternoon after being thor thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly fumigated I do not expect that the diphtheria epi epidemic epidemic epidemic demic will have hae any effect on the schools said the superintendent last evening There thero Is hardly a day through throughout out the year ear that we do not fumi fumigate fumigate fumigate gate a room in lii some building and close school in that room for or halt half a day da Of Or course of late there have been a few more Instances of this being done than is usual at this time of year rear but there is no epidemic strictly speaking in the schools and our health officers are not in the least fearful of any danger The disease is distributed over Ver the entire city and this is fortunate in a way vay 8 as it means mians that th t there will not be more than a case or two in each school while if it was confined to toone toone toone one locality there might be much more danger a |