Show MUT of KIM the public schools were not opened last monday because of the prevalence of measles in this city and the danger of the disease de developing eloping into an epidemic the city board of health held a meeting last saturday evening and after hearing the report from g city physician laker decided that it would be best to postpone the open ing of school until next monday january at the time the city physician made his report there were A in the neighborhood of cases of measles in the city and many of the cases were nere considered quite serious 8 the same conditions exist at salt lake and other cities and the board of health at the capital also decided that in order to prevent the further spread of the disease it would be best i to lengthen out the hoi hol day vacation for the schools to january many parents not only expose their own children to the disease but they are not at all careful about prevent ing others from becoming exposed and physicians everywhere say that thesis this is an extremely bad practice some people adopt the theory that the children have got to get measles sometime in life and that the sooner they are over it the better this is entirely wrong and no child should be needlessly exposed the disease it self is not necessarily a very serious matter but it often leaves the child ren with serious complications |