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Show DIPHTHERIA AT THE BEACH. Prominent Physicians Investigate and Announce An-nounce That Kverything is Safe. The alarming rumors afloat for a day or two in regard to cases of diphtheria at Garfield Gar-field beach prove to be unfounded. It seems that last week a son of Nightwatchman Jackson came over from E. T. City and spent some hours at the beach. In the afternoon he complained of being ill and was taken to the shanty occupied by his father a short distance west of the electric power house. Later in the day he was examined by a physician, phy-sician, who at once saw that he was suffering from diphtheria. The next morning he was removed to E. T. City, and died a few hours later. Some days afterward Richard 1 ee, who was employed as a section hand on the Utah & Nevada, was taken down with the dread disease and shortly afterwards died at ! E. T. City. The people at the beach promptly quarantined quar-antined the shanty where the boy Jackson stayed, aud the structure and everything in it has since been burned. Last evening Drs. Bascom, Standart, Maclean and Foster visited the beach and thoroughly investigated the matter. As a result of their investigation they announced that "it is impossible that other cases should occur at Garfield from this infection, especially since the company ha3 ordered the building with all its contents burned. We believe all possible precautions have been taken by the railroad company; and, 60 far -as we can learn, no other buildings have been contaminated." |