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Show GIVE WARNING OF MENINGITIS Houses Where There Are Cases of the Disease Will Be Placarded by the City Board of Health. The unusual number of cases of ccre-hro ccre-hro spinal meuinniti' i Salt Lake ( itv was the cause of some uneasiness throughout the city anl a special meeting meet-ing of the 'ity Board of Health was held in the city hall this morning. on- j siderab'.e discussion was indulged in Itv the phvsicians present and it was decided de-cided that in the future the hoard wiil placard every residence in which th dreaded disease is found. Many of the phvsicians declared that the disease is , not contagious, but it was thought best j to take no chances. In .January there were no fewer than seventeen deaths due to meningitis and. according to an etsimate made bv Dr. If. N. Mayo, ther are' at least thirty-tive thirty-tive cases now in the citv. The disease reached considerable headway last fall, when a number of laborers were brought hi from Garfield I suffering from it. The board also declared that ster ' would be taken at once to rigidly en force the law compelling phvsicians to report at ones contagious cases. j The board also took up the considers I tion of tho food situation here. Thf board listened to explanations of T'ood Inspector Frazier and Councilman K. ;. O'Donnell, chairman of the iSamtarv committee of the itv Council. I'raT.ier declared that he is having aonsi derabie trouble in disposing of sp.sfled ovsters found on the market. He said the qne tion of his authontv I,. -is hrn raiM and that he finds it i'np"sih!c to pr..v rlv en force the Tm. j board d-'ciiled to ;aKc pic n .ittcr ,ip 1 wit Ji 'he Legislature aid iif : !:i w tliM . jn be better ec force 1. i . . I |