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Show CHICAGO HEALTH OFFICERS SEEK SIGNS OF DISEASE CHICAGO, July 7. Physicians from the city health department, who met and inspected all Incoming trains from the enst today, seeking signs of infantile paralysis, reported that no evidence of such was found. Another thorough canvass can-vass of the city was made. One supposed case was reported. , Dr. John Dill Robertson, city health commissioner. Issued a statement in which he said that Chicago and the state of Illinois are in no immediate danger of the disease, as conditions here are good, and that extraordinary precautionary measures are being taken by the city and state officials. Arrivals from New York are being listed list-ed by the city health department, which is co-operating with the state officials. The death of three-year-old Charles Wenz, which was reported yesterday as due to infantile paralysis, was. upon investigation, in-vestigation, found to have been caused by intestinal intoxication, according to a report made today by Dr. Frank E. Gearon of the health department staff. |