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Show DECREASE IS SHOWN IN SCHOOL CENSUS The school census of Salt Lake, Just completed for the present year, shows a decrease of 495 from that of last year, according to figures given out yesterday by L. P. Judd, clerk of the citv board of education. The total of those betw een 6 and 18 years is 211,640, as against j 30,135 last year. ' Close adherence to the legal require- I ment for listing of persons between 6 and 38 years, Mr. Judd thinks, h:is been large- ! ly responsible for the decrease fn the showing, the custom in the past having been to list those not long past 18, 1 whereas none who had turned 18 were listed this year. i Many deaths from influenza are believed be-lieved by tome of the enumerators to 1 have been responsible to a considerable degree for the apparent falling off in 1 1 10 school population of the city, one enumerator reporting eipht deaths in a single city block and another three deaths out of one family. Some enumerators j reported the falling off in some localities to be duo to the exclusion r'f oh i!dren from apartment houses. Absenre of nianv children from the city for the vacation va-cation period and removal of porno families fami-lies to farms are named by Mr. Judd a3 cont r;b;tory causes to the showii.g of decrease. The clerk's summary of the census j yhowy a decrease of :J2 In the First rnu-j rnu-j nioipal ward, an inTf-ase of 17A in the S"cond, a d.jcrrase of 314 in the Third, a i dtcreite of in the Fourth and an increase of 149 In the fifth. |