Show MEASLES SCOURGE ON INCREASE SCHOOLS ARE BADLY HANDICAPPED I Health Record Monday ir j Measles 60 f ft t Diphtheria t c 3 f ff f Typhoid 14 1 4 Scarlet fever 2 4 Smallpox 1 4 4 4 Births 23 Deaths J 9 94 MM That the epidemic of contagious dis die diseases diseases eases is not decreasing is made evident by the cases reported to the health de department department department yesterday as shown by the above table The list for any anyone one day dayis da daIs is unprecedented in the history of Salt Lake The report of births deaths made mad yesterday alsO als shows that it was wasa a record day In the health department The epidemic of measles instead of be being beIng being ing checked in any an manner is 15 growing worse every day The schools are badly handicapped and hardly a day da passes but that from ten to a dozen rooms are not dismissed in order that they may maybe maybe maybe be fumigated In this connection there is a serious controversy between the board of education and the th board of ol olI health According to the school author authorities authorities I when a whole building Is fumigated six hours is enough to do the Job welL This Thia is the rule of the state board of health At The local department however insists that the fumigation must extend over a period of from to for hours when the space is so 50 large and as a result the he Washington school was closed two days last week in order ord r that this rule might be observed The school authorities have protested In vain against this practice but the health department insists and nothing can be bedone bedone bedone done At every the of officials officials officials of the health department have taken occasion to criticise the methods of the board of education ed cation and have blamed that body for the spread of dis die disease disease ease f The number of ot cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever do not show any decrease over the number which have been regu regularly regularly regularly reported for the past six weeks but there Is every indication that the typhoid scourge is ended |