Show DIPHTHERIA ON INCREASE ACCORDING TO REPORTS Alarming Spread of Disease Among Children in the Northwestern Portion o of the City Diphtheria Is spreading in Silt Salt l. l Lake kc especially In the northwestern portion of or the city at nt an nn alarming rate Dr King City Physician has bas ordered the sanitary In inspectors to make Investigations at nt the earliest possible moment and the rc result oi of same The City Physician has lisa also ordered that the rooms of oC the thc Franklin school be fumigated and that the quarantine rules In Inthe the school he rigidly enforced Two new cases of or the thc dread disease Were cre ere reported to the Board of oC Health yesterday and both of Dr the children afflicted had been attending the Franklin school Twenty-one Twenty cases of diphtheria arc now In quarantine and all but hut two are on the thc west side of or the city ctt Dr Whitney school physician clan stated II yesterday that he did not think the spread of the thc disease e in the tile vicinity of the Franklin school was caused by chIldren children chil chIl- dren being exposed in the schoolroom but b by the lax observance of or the quarantine quarantine quarantine tine regulations on the part of oC their theil parents patents and also on the part of some of the children The teachers in the various schools are doing all in their power to enforce th thc regulations and prevent ent the spread of disease If the parents parent would operate co-operate with them there would be fewer cases of contagious diseases among the school children said Dr Whitney to The Telegram toda today That diphtheria Is spreading with alarming rapidity Is shown by the figures on file In iii the thc office of or the Board of Health On the week ending October there were but four tour cases in quarantine and l i deaths for the week ending October there were five fi cases reported to the board and one death for tOl the week ending November 1st there were seven sc cases In quarantine and one death the thc week ending November fourteen cases case were reported and on the fourth da day of or this week there are twenty one cases es In quarantine When asked how he accounted for the present epidemic of oC diphtheria in the northwest portion of the city Dr King City Ph Physician made the following statement to The Telegram today I 1 am at i n loss to know what Is la cau causing the spread of or diphtheria in that section of or the city The drainage In that section is not as good a as In some other portions of or the town but I do not nol think that the sanitary conditions are at all bad jad However I have ordered a thorough Investigation made and will do all In m my power to prevent the further spread of oC the dl disease elSe |