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Show DIPHTHERIA CASES. THE NUMBER OF THEM CAUSES PARENTS PAR-ENTS TO BE ALARMED And Several are TakingTfheir Children out of School People Who Come From Infected Houses Biding on Street Cars Scarcly a Ward Free of It The,re are quite a number of cases of diphtheria diph-theria in the city, some nineteen being reported re-ported at the office of the city physician for the month of November, and . in consequence conse-quence thereof many parents are taking their children out of school. The 'school bord sees no occasion for Alarm in this number of cases, but it is us-every us-every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease, and the teachers are being cautioned cau-tioned to exercise the greatest care in excluding children from the schools who come from infected houses or neighborhoods. It was eveu thought prudent by the board on last tonday morning morn-ing to issue the following notice: In view of the alarm that prevails throughout the city on account of diphtheria, please instruct your teachers (today) as follows: 1) To observe carefully rule 21, page 18, of rules and regulations. (2) In caee of absence of any pupil on account of sickness, make careful injuiry as to nature of the illnecs, with the view of excluding other children of the same family, in case of suspected contage-ous contage-ous disease. (3) Upon the return to school of any pupil who has had sore throat, be very careful not to receive one in whose case there is suspicion of danger to the school. (4) If pupils are comi;- to school from the close vicinity of a house where any malignant disease exists (say within ten rods) report the case to the superintendent at once. It was in reference to this report and other rumors in circulation, that a reporter for The Times called on Superintendent Mills-paugh Mills-paugh this morning, lie admitted that some parents manifested a great deal of fear -because of the prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fever, particularly the first, but ho did not think ' they should . be unduly alarmed, because there was really no cause for them to be. Then the school board had been more than usually careful lately to send pupils home as soon as they showed any symptoms of throat troubles. All this, however, does not alter the fact that a child had been taken out of one of ! the ward' schools which had the disease, and in another ward a child is said to have been attending school whose brother is confined to his bed with diphtheria of a contagious type. ... From yet another authority it . is learned that there is scarcely a school district in the city where there is not a case of contagious diphtheria or scarlet fever. The reporter had a talk with Mr. Pike of the board. That official was found in a mood very adverse to giving any publicity to the matter. There had been only a few cas:s reported in the city so far. not at all an alarming number, considering the population. popula-tion. A visit to the office of City Physician Hall was made, but as the gentleman was in California, Cali-fornia, information from that source was given by his clerk,. W. W. Brown. Just as the reporter entered the office he received a telephonic communication of the presence of a case of diphtheria in the Twenth-second ward. Mr. Brown said: "During the month of October fourteen physicians reported, eighteen cases of diphtheria diph-theria and four of scarlet fever to this office. So far in November nineteen cases of the first disease and two of the last have been reported by ten physicians. Of the cases in October, six were fatal. But as there are nearly 200 regular practising physicians in the city, it is believed that many cases of these diseases are present of which no report is made. There is not positive evidence of this, but the suspicion i nevertheless well founded. The board of health says that where people lease infected houses there is no one to blame but the physicians attending at-tending the cases, and that it is the duty of snch physicians to see that the "quarantine rules" are enforced. Mr.' Brown also gave the information that there had been six deaths from diphtheria in November. Member of the School Board Henry Dukes does not share in the sense of safety which his associates feel; and believes the condition condi-tion of affairs at least warrant the calling of public attention to them. It has been learned, and the statement is based on something more than mere rumor, that people are coming out of infected houses, and that they are mingling with others in the streets, riding in street cars with school children and others, regardless of the fact that they are carrying everywhere every-where they go one of the most fatal contagions con-tagions with which the science is confronted. It was only yesterday, that a conductor on a North Bench car, informed a gentleman passenger wsth whom he was acquainted that there was a lady in the same car who had come out of a house marked with a yellow flag on which was inscribed "Diphtheria," "Diph-theria," This is only one instance of a dozen tfat have been brought to the attention atten-tion of the reporter with:n a week and one or two of them have been mentioned in these columns before, |