Salt Lake Herald | 1907-10-06 | Page 1 | Plague at San Francisco

PLAGUE AT SAN FRANCISCO Verified Cases 57 Deaths 32 Re Recovered Recovered Recovered covered 2 Under Treatment 23 Cases Suspected 31 San Francisco Oct 5 health board reports show the following totals in the bubonic plague situation Verified case to date 57 5 deaths 32 recovered 2 remaining under treat treatment treatment treatment ment 23 cases suspected but not yet verified 31 At a meeting today of a committee composed of ot representatives of ot the health board board of ot supervisors the Red Cross and the Relief corporation it was sas decided in view of the decision of ot the federal authorities that the tho old city and county hospital is a nuisance and a menace and must be demolished to recommend the distribution among various private hospitals of ot the acute patients there and the es establishment establishment establishment of ot a temporary hospital for tor forthe forthe the care of the chronic pa patients patients patients There are about of each to tobe tobe tobe be moved An Au effort Is s being made to secure a site for the temporary hospital on the race track grounds at Ingleside Another hospital for the isolation of ot all plague cases is now being arranged