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Show SCARLET FEVER IN SUBURB Irving Park, Chicag-o, in Grip of Diead Disease. CHICAGO. Jan. 8. The suburb of Irving park Is In the grip of u scarlet fever epidemic. Business men are Isolated Iso-lated from their families; grocers and milk dealers use poles and other longdistance long-distance luetics ln delivering their wares, and every one Is under the constant con-stant watch of health department Inspectors. In-spectors. N." services were held yesterday at the Methodist and Baptist churches Today the flrsl day of the term the school .-rc .i; -I.--. I nndei u s stein of the most rigid medical Inspection. There are between thirty and forty known cases Of the disease In the neighborhood, and as many tnnri art suspected. The epidemic started at a children's t'hrlstmas party given nt one uf the churches, and spread rapidly. |