Show DECIDED ACTION BY BOARD OF HEALTH Epidemic of Spinal Meningitis Causes 17 Deaths Thirty five cases of oC epidemic cerebrospinal spinal meningitis w ere ro reported ii In tt t Salt Lake CI City at tho special meeting of the the cl city board of or health held Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda to take tak some steps to prevent the spread o of tho the fatal atAI mala malady S Seventeen Sev enteen deaths re resulted ull from the dl disease dis ca ease case o during luring the tile month of ar January but no 10 co cognizance has been be taken Until until un un- til tl yesterday to quarantine all al cases casp Th The board decided lo to 1 placard all 01 hou houses es where tIlls this h I affliction wa was among the residents antI and orders were I Issued to physicians I. I to 1 1 report every case to th the health office There I Is sonic some onH dispute among physicians n as to whether th the ti disease eMe I is contagious Heretofore some physicians have re refused reused 1 re- re fu used fused pd to report the cn cases c of or cerebrospInal cerebrospinal spinal meningitis to tho board boud but the orders urdIs yesterday were mat made ory It I la is stated staled that thai the disease l is isone one 1110 nie of the most mot dreaded known knots to 0 I science So far fur a a successful treatment ha hUts has failed ailed fald and about five seventy PI f per pr cent tIt t of If f tIle the tl cases are arc fatal awl When hen the tl IJ disease was wa rampant I a year Car ago ngn 11 Dr lr T. T 1 H. H Beaty called upon Health Commissioner M. M 1 R. R Stewart to have o h all al ea Casts cases t. t o of spinal meningitis reported ported and quarantined It Il resulted li In the tIl epidemic C eases cases being reported but It I wa wart not nor compulsory and mn many physicians refused el to declare declare a n case epidemic antI and hence most of the ca cases es were werl not Ilot reported The Th- meeting wu was attended 1 by hy Mayor g Ezra Exra r Thompson Health lealh Commissioner loner M. M 1 R. R Stewart Assistant CI City Physician Samuel G. G Paul Dr II IT N. N Mayo nod and Dr DI FI Fishier Fisher her The rhe board loard al also o 11 discussed u cd th the lit food situation with wih Inspector Walter Waller Fraz- Fraz I ler and Councilman E. E G. G ODonnell committee chairman of the til sanitary aula It I WU was decided tl to have u the ci city at- at t- t lorney draw lra up amendments to the tl pure food oot ordinance in investing tn mol more authority in 10 tIlt the tl In Inspector and ma malting malling malt mall cIng c- c ing it possible to secure convictions Frazier stated that that he hn had l considerable considerable consider consider- able tr trouble wit th the merchants and commission lon dealers who nr are handling spoiled food stuff His authority Is IR limited and mut he is unable to secure a conviction without confiscating the Ow I provisions lous under the pr pre present ont ent ordinance Juk makes tho the city chy Hall liable without with with- wih- wih out omit h he hn lIes has u n warrant The bifi hl will wi first firt rt bo bt presented to ll the IGI legislature legis lature for lr ir con consideration nn an 1 l If I passed will vill 1 b be embodied In the lie the city ordin n ances Ices Birth Th The report of th the board of or health for Cor the thC week ending coiling February 1 was submitted There litlo were thirty seven births reported twenty one fe females Cc- Cc e males male and sixteen males male During the same Mme period there UHrE wore two thirty t deaths Of or this number twenty one were ero males mals and eleven eleen n le females leR Seventeen ca cases es of or a and andI I Infectious ml feet bus ml diseases e wore ero reported for forthe thu the week One ca case o 1 Is epidemic core cere hen bro spinal meningitis ll and two cases are arc r reported as R spinal W al gitis Seven H cn cases casc's vern diphtheria one onu case scarlet cariN fever one nile case CHO of f whooping cough one oie ca case e of measles ono uno case of or and three tUC co- co ca caes es s of oe Jump mumps Six Ix cases of or scarlet fever er and amI amIen seven en cases ce of diphtheria antI and one case of epidemic spinal meningitis its r remain maln In quarantine at the end of or the tIme week veel |