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Show ILOWELL SCHOOL IST OF GERMS Smallpox Is Spreading From Building. Northeastern Part of the City Threatened With Epidemic. Physicians Traco at Least Ftftoen- Out of Twenty-Two Ca3es to Institution. j "With! tho'LovrcIl Bohool as a. place -of origin, Bmallpo Is rapidly sprendtng wor the northeastern, part of Salt Lako City. Elsht new cases were reported ycBtorday. Sfcc of these are in tho Fec-tlon Fec-tlon designated. Out of twenty-two casta discovered during tho past week. lat least fifteen wero traced to the From 15 to 20 Cases. Physicians mod tho alarming discovery. dis-covery. They followed from flftoen to twenty eases of tho virulent disease, now under treatment, directly to tho Lowell school. Tho report Is tho more alarming inasmuch as no precautions are being taken to destroy the disease germs. They have evidently often brought to the building by some of the children who have attended, cr who ore In attendance. No doubt, say the doctors, other cases will follow, unless un-less some rigid steps are tuken to prevent pre-vent further spread. Upon inquiry physicians called to attend at-tend patients found that those first nf-filoted nf-filoted In a family were tho children who went to this school, thus proving that the disease must have been contracted con-tracted there. Tho first few cases caused no special alarm, but when fifteen fif-teen were found to originate from the biune source, there could be no doubt us to where the germs camo from. Parents Aro Concerned. Some of tho parents of children attending at-tending the Lowell have become concerned con-cerned over the reports of the children that their playmates aro sick with the smnllpox, and have had tho little ones vaccinated. In the office of r prominent physician eight children from the school were vaccinated yesterday. "The building should undoubtedly be fumigated." said this physician. "It looks like a case where vaccination should be enforced before any child ought to be allowed to return to the Lowell, Lo-well, In view of the general spread of the disease from this schoolhouse. the Board of Health, and the Board of Education, Ed-ucation, should, in my opinion, take some precaution against the further spread of the contagion." Eight Case3 Yesterday. Eight fresh cases of the disease were reported to the Board of Health yesterday. yester-day. Six come from the northeast part of the city and five of them from one family. Two cases, in the same house on Harvard avenue, in the southeast district, are traced to Sclpio. Utah, according ac-cording to City Health Officer Wilcox. Miss Sylvia Brown, living at 1144 Harvard Har-vard avenue, is reported to have contracted con-tracted the disease there, and the Mx-months-old child of "William Held of the same nddress, also caught it. Miss Brown was recently visiting in Sclpio, Five cases are reported in the family of Mrs. J. F. Burton at 385 Fifth street The mother and four children, the tld-est tld-est aged eleven years and the youngest five, are all down with the dreaded illness. The other case is Agnes Cllve, aged ten, living at 3C3 First street. This swells the total number of cases for the week to twenty-two. Two cases of diphtheria were reported report-ed to the Board of Health yesterday. Thcv wero tho five-year-old daughter of G. R. Craig, living at No. 10 East It I aged nine, ' of 756 East Third South. I H There was also one case of chlcken- H "ox' tliat oC CharloB Sutton, aged eight I Hj years, at 1C P street. I H "Weekly Health. Report I Hi The weekly report of the Board of I Hi Health for tho week ending October 20 I B shows 30 births, of which 18 were males I H nnd 32 wero females- The death report for the same time numbered 23, of I H which 17 wero males and 6 females. IJHj During the week there wero two cases Hj of diphtheria; twenty-two ensos of HJ Fmallpox; eight cases of typhoid fever, I H and two cases of chicken-pox. One case of consumption was reported, t H American. Drum Corps Reception, I H Tho American Drum, Flfo and Bugle I corps was tho reclplont of a flno reception I ifl lnst evening, tho hostess being Mrs. S. IL I H Glison. at CC Park avonuc Vocal and In- HI strumental music was the order of tho Hi evening, many toasts being offered for tho I HI huccoss of the American party. Tho en- Hl tcrtalners of tho evening wero Mrs. 9. H. 1 Glison. Mrs. E. B. Stewart, Mrs. S. N. Hj Randolph. Miss Kato Glison. Miss Allco ' Glison, Miss Eva Glison, MIks Mattlo GI1- HJ ron. Baby MascotL Donald Stewart of tho Hj American Drum, Fife and Buglo corps. HI Tho reception was truly an American af- H ra'r throughout. National songs, reclta- H Hons and martial music by tho drum corp3 Hi lasted till tho woo dawn In the morning. The corns, before leaving, serenaded tho H hostess and tho Americans of tho nolgh- |