Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-20 | Page 3 | Mt. Pleasant Worried over Possible Epidemic

MT. PLEASANT WORRIED OVER POSSIBLE EPIDEMIC Special to The Tribune. MT. PLEASANT, Utah. .May 19. Smallpox Small-pox Is rather a serious thing In this city Just at the present time. A family named Everett had the dlseaso two weeks or moro without calling a physician. The children went to school, to tho postoffice and all over town, exposing hundreds of persons, a number Of whom aro now 111 and several more quarantined. The Board of Health has caused the schools to be closed and has forbidden anv public gatherings. The closlnu falls rather hard on the schools, as many were prepared for graduation oxcrclsco. Six families are now under close quarantine quar-antine and several others are, watched closely Every effort posslblo will be made to nrevent tho further spread of tlie disease, but so many persons, especially espe-cially children, have been exposed that it Is hard to suggest where the trouble may end