Show WARNS WA PARENTS AND TEACHERS AND Health Commissioner Commis King on 00 Diphtheria Situation Situ 4 t DISEASE MAY M Y BE PREVENTED t APPLICATION OF OP ANTI I I It EFFICACIOUS t nr THIRTEEN e cases of o diphtheria I I developed in Salt Lake during the week ending yesterday yesterday according accordino to 0 the report of the city board of health and there were ere three deaths from the disease dise se At present there th are nineteen cases in quarantine and although this Is s two tivo less than for the tie corresponding week last year ear Health Commissioner J 3 C E King believes that the situa sua situation lon tion ton demands the attention of ot the en enire entre entire tre tire ire public to prevent the spread ad of the disease The greatest trouble is on the te west vest side where there Js ls an infected district but there is danger of the con contagion contagIon contagion spreading to other parts part of the city unless parents parent and teachers exer exercise exercise exercise cise the greatest precautions Since the discovery discover of antitoxin saId aid Dr r King yesterday there Is no need of a case of diphtheria becom becoming bec m ming ing ng serious If it i is taken Jn fn n time If the treatment Is i applied within twenty twe ty four tour hours after the first symptoms de develop develop develop the te disease can be warded off of u The he symptoms of diphtheria are sore throat headache fever and frequently vomiting As soon as any ay of at these tese symptoms ms especially a sore throat de develop develop a physician should be called caled in at once once The patient patent can ca then be treat tret treated ed with wih antitoxin preventing the dis dIsease disease ease from becoming serious and all an who have been ben exposed can be treated so 50 as to prevent their becom becoming becomIng ing lug all aU also If I all al parents and school schoolteacher schoolteachers teachers teacher throughout the city will wi be watchful and report to physicians the first frt indications of diphtheria the spread of the te disease may be checked Health Heat of the City Except for the te appearance of diphtheria dIphtherIa theria therla the th general health conditions are much better beter than they were a year ago The weekly report of the te city board of health Is Js as a follows The uThe report of the board of health healt for or the week ending Nov 22 23 shows a a mortality of fourteen five of the dece decedent decedents dents dent being males and nine females For the corresponding corresponding week last year there were eighteen deaths Five bodies were brought in for interment and three tree shipped out for burial elsewhere At the close of last report there were twelve cases of scarlet fever In quarantine During the week six new cases were reported and five having been released left heft thirteen in quanta quarantine tine as compared with wih cases for the same week of last year of ot which were new cases case Of diphtheria fourteen cases re remained remained remained in quarantine from last week During During the week wee thirteen new cases were reported three died and five were discharged leaving nineteen in quarantine antine two less than for the corre corresponding core corresponding period of last year One new case cae of smallpox was quarantined quarantined during the week this case hay hav having hav havIng haying ing come here from Idaho Two cases remained over from last week and none Done was discharged leaving three cases cae in quarantine two less than for the same week of ot 1901 1901 Seven cases case ot of typhoid fever were wee reported during the week as compared with wih two for lor the preceding week and twelve for the correspond corresponding ing ing week of last year In spite spie of the alarming increase in inthe inthe Inthe the number of new cases of diphtheria reported this week it is gratifying to note that there are but six sIx more mare than half hal as a many cases ces of contagious and infectious disease in the city now than at the same time last lat year when there were cases according to the depart department department ment meat records of which were quarantine diseases viz scarlet fever diphtheria and smallpox The Herald Herad is in receipt of a com corn communication signed which says the spread of disease in the west western western ern em part of the city Is due to unsanitary lar conditions caused cau ed by the dump ing of refuse and dead animals in that section The communication goes goeson geson on to t say sayAs sayAs sayAs As to who ho is responsible for the negligence in enforcing quarantine rules if there are any I am unable case to say but I will wi call cal attention at ton to this cas uA A child was taken from the River Riverside Riverside RIverside side school with wih diphtheria and died two days later This was reported and nothing done The week following a case of smallpox was taken from the same saie room and the follow following ing week an art another UI other case of diphtheria all aU being from one room I at once took this matter mater before Superintendent Chris Christensen Christensen Christensen and he he assured me it would receive his Immediate attention which I 1 believe beleve he gave It I but for all aU that that there was nothing done toward the checking of f the dreaded diseases for tor six days after fer my reporting these thee facts Yet Ye you wonder at the spread of con contagion contagIon contagion I repeat again abate the nuisance and we will wi have haye less sick sickness sickness sickness ness Another case I wish to call atten attention cal tion ton to Is that of C Jensen of 1522 12 In Indiana Indiana diana avenue who died of diphtheria It I had been pronounced Brights dis disease disease disease ease for some reason reson but if i It J is Brights disease why has hag the home been quarantined with a diphtheria Hag flag fag This young mans body was car carried cr ried ned on a board not only out of the j f house houe but across the sidewalk to the I street street and there placed In Jn the coffin within twenty feet of a street t car full of people Is not this enough to spread 1 contagion con 1 Dr Kings Reply In n reply to this Dr King said yes yesterday yesterday yesterday Garbage dead animals and refuse of ot all aU kinds are being taken to the crematory and anti are not being dumped on the west vest side For a a short time while the crematory cremator was out of com corn commission mission it I was necessary to bury bur the refuse This was done on city prop property property erty beyond the Jordan Jorda some distance away from any dwellings and In such sucha suc a place that the drainage would not reach any habitations Even this ts ceased some time ago however and now tory everything goes to the crema crematory crematory tor As A to negligence of the quarantine rules rUle no responsibility for this can be I laid on the health department for forter ter very case cae reported Is given prompt attention and that is where the te cases should be reported The trouble Is with wih people who do not recognize the seriousness of ot mild mid eases cases of diphtheria and who consequently fall fail to fal report them or who vho do not report them at atthe atthe t the proper place 5 |