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Show WHOOPING COUGH IS THINNING SCHOOLS 1H1 Ml SSS City 'Physician Is Asked to Hake a New Interpretation of the Quarantine Bules. ' Dr. C. F. Wilcox, the new health commissioner, com-missioner, has been asked by Superintendent Superin-tendent of City Schools Christensen for an interpretation of the law of the Board of Health pertaining to the quarantine quar-antine restrictions to be placed on whooping cough. i The present rule Is that where one member of the family has this disease the others must be kept oat of school. This is playing sad havoc with the higher grades of the district schools, as well as the high school. A meeting has been arranged for the school officials and the Board of Health, at which it Is believed some plan of fumigation fu-migation and separate residence can .be decided upon, |