Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-31 | Page 5 | City Schools Open; Attendance Large

CITY SCHOOLS OPEN; ATTENDANCE URGE First Day Indicates That Conditions Will Be Normal Nor-mal Very Soon. The city schools reopened yesterday with a better attendance than was anticipated, an-ticipated, according to Superintendent Krriest A. Smith. In some instances 90 per cent of the enrollment of classes wa? present. The falling off in attendance was largely in the primary grades. It is expected ex-pected this will mend rapidly. Nonat-tendance Nonat-tendance on the first day of some high school and upper-grade pupils is ascribed to their having obtained employment during the vacation occasioned by the influenza ban and their reluctance to give up the wages immediately. Altogether, the teaching force was rather surprised nt the showing yesterday, yester-day, and it is now expected that the attendance at-tendance In the entire system will approach ap-proach normal within a few days, or as near as can be expected under the stringent rules that obtain with regard to protection against increase of influenza. influ-enza. All pupils are required to make report to their teachers as to whether or not anyone in their homes have had influenza, influ-enza, and when. No pupil Is to be allowed al-lowed to remain In school without assurance as-surance to teachers and nurses that there is no danger of the child's being a source of contagion. School teachers are required by the state and city health boards to bo watchful of their pupils at present, especially in view of the fact that a guard must be set against recurrence of the influenza epidemic. In the dally health observations made by teachers and nurses, the following signs are regarded as Important, and they are enumerated here in order that parents also may keep a close watch over their children: Sore throat, earache, ear-ache, running nose; running, congested or sore ayes; dizziness or faintness. flushed face, unusual pallor, eruption of any kind, vomiting, frequent coughing, convulsions, swollen glands in neck, puf-finess puf-finess of face or eyes, shortness of breath, acute pain anywhere, parlsitic skin troubles, headache, lassitude, fever, increased pulse rate. ! A card of instructions has been issued is-sued by the board of health, which is intended to lie on the teacher's desk, where it will serve as a guide in making-the making-the health record of each child.