Show ALARMING INCREASE OF DISEASE I IN SALT LAKE LITTLE ONES ARE VICTIMS t. t 1 One Hundred and Twelve New Cases Oases of Contagious Diseases Are Reported in Salt Lake I Within but Two Weeks PUBLIC IS DEMANDING THE REASONS FOR THIS i 1 City Which Should Be Healthful Is Ridden Disease for Some C Cause use and the People Want This Remedied at Once SITUATION MOST GRAVE With new cases of con con- disease as the o alarming alarming- report lor the two weeks ending ending endl end- end l ing ing- g May 9 the menace to the life of children from this source is is such that the parents and public in general are asking asking- the reasons for the unchecked ravages of malign malignant an t ills from I which scores of children have j died in Salt Lake and vicinity during during- the past two or three months Careful inquiry among physicians physicians physicians phy phy- and those in touch with f th the t situation it ion clearly shows that r 1 i j i M 1 th i J u n me reg iI W dM C r condition ond n of oft affairs V t s general demand mand Is be being ng made nade by parents to know what t remedies may mRy maybe be be- employed to check contagion and anH almost ever every physician n in tho the city re reports reports reports re- re ports a score coro o of 01 requests of or this char char- acler following Saturdays Saturday's leport of ot Increase Numerous incidents are arc cited where members of 01 families living In Iii quarantined hoU houses es are arc al allowed al- al lowed to go upon tipon tho streets and oftentimes oft ort attend public gatherings Dr T. T n 11 Dealt Beatly secretary of ot the tate state board of or health hel confirms this theory for the tho spread of ot contagion and anti Supt D. D II Christensen of or lh the public schools expresses the belief that lack of 01 strict quarantine re regulations 18 are arc re ro In the iho opinion of 01 those two authorities It Is tho the duty duly of or the tho city health hoard board to see that thai quarantine rc regulations are observed it being belnE well weli ell known that this furnishes the only possible explanation for epidemic In a city of or this altitude The Tho monthly report of or tho the board of or health for the month of ot April J which was submitted d at the close of or last week v showed cases ses of or contagious 1 and Infectious disease reported to lo the board during the whole month these being divided cd as follows follows' Smallpox Ii 37 37 scarlet fever fe 83 diphtheria 25 measles 10 chicken pox 6 6 whooping cough 38 mumps 2 pneumonia 1 4 tuberculosis 1 l. l Two Tt k With six fifty cases of ot contagious contagion dIsease e reported to the tho city board of ot health for tor each of or tho last 11 two weeks It Is evident that the board has not been able ablo to lo cope successfully with the various allous forms torms of or disease which are especially prevalent in the tho city at t the time Of Ot these the tho prevalent arc smallpox scarlet mot most and nud diphtheria with a large largo fever O showing in other othor ailments ailment which are aro chiefly chien found among children Including whooping cou cough h and measles lug ing Inquiries among the Iho physicians ns and chool authorities e establish t the tho fact tl of ot rules r that thal non nonobservance strong tendency to conc conceal conceal con con- h by parents a In tho the fatuity family an and to escape escape es es- c ceal ol sickness and ond a lack of 01 vigilance vigilance cape quarantine In quarantining are the chief lance for the spread of ot contagious diseases reasons and whooping cough UI tila ri y that the thc therM shows i Investigation The in the annual re- re report report ort forth se set o rM reasOns ons of or health of or w which the board of oC state secretary secretor for tor t the Ie Is B. B Beatty D DP Dr r. r T 1 sound d are spread of diseases children to A fa failure lure to the Is given a as prejudice judice fhe spread pread or of oren smallPox en use t for or oJ I un O ALARMING INCREASE OF DISEASE IN SALT LAKE LAKEI I Continued from On J I whooping cough is attributed to the time too loo oo general view b by paren parents parent that It Is only a mild disease and the time infected child is allowed to associate with others others others oth oth- ers with freedom ree om and carelessness that thatIs Is s beginning to assume tragic proper proper- lons School Safeguarded When hen asked last night as to tho the conditions In the time public schools Supt D. D II IL ChrIstensen said While it Is undoubtedly true that cases of whoopIng whooping whoop whoop- Ing ng cough are spread In the schools school owing to the tIme fact that the disease 1 I Is contagious before it Il is recognized and ond be before ore It bc ber bernes mes a ground for tor absence I 1 am nm convinced that very few tew cases of or diphtheria and scarlet fever are con- con traded tr In the time schools school I base my m be- be belie bellet lie lef on the fact that neither disease is contagious in its first stage and arid that tho the pupil with either disease is home for or a day or more before it becomes contagious I I am equally convinced that If U the time same precautions were taken on the tho street cars dance danco halls and of or public gathering as are oro taken in the tho schools tho the health reports would not show the spread of disease that they thoy do I appreciate tho time fact tact that parents are arc lax In reporting to lo the tho health authorities Illness In their families and to that carelessness much disease contagion contagion contagion con con- is due lue Dr Ur Yle Dr T. T B. B Beatty BeaUy secretary of ot the tho state board of health was equally emphatic emphatic em em- that failure to observe the thc health laws Jaws In the reporting of cases defiance of or quarantine regulations and other ne negligence were responsible be for disease spread I would enforce the tho law about reporting sickness to the health authorities with a heavy penallY penalty penalty pen pen- alty allY said Dr Beatt Beatty It is a safeguard safeguard safe sar I guard that tho the public mo may justly doThe de do- mand Tho The number of contagious diseases for tho the week ending April 30 showed showell an nn Increase of 19 HI over o the time number for forthe forthe the week before Thirty seven deaths were recorded In lii the tho city during tho timo week ending May 1 and ancl the die record of ot con contagious tas ls diseases disease was as follows Kim Kim- Tell Stor Story Smallpox 13 cas cases s scarlet fever ever 20 cases measles four tour cass cases s whooping cough eight cases The rhe other OthOl cases s of contagious diseases reported included ed eight of or diphtheria typhoid fever to ono case caso chicken pox JOX two cases canes Th There re wore 20 0 houses under quarantine quarantine tine for smallpox at the time end of or the time week 37 on of ot scarlet fever revor and 14 1 on account of diphtheria There were nine cases calles of ot smallpox at tho the iso iso- la muon lion hospital tal There were wore were thirty four deaths In tho the city last week weel and the tho record on contagious contagious contagious con con- diseases up to Friday Frida Ma May 7 7 was us follows There was a slight decrease In tn the tho number of ot cases of or scarlet foyer fever dIphtherIa diphtheria theria and amid measles while tho time num number ber of or cases of tU smallpox reported wa was time the same samo as the tho preceding week 13 Whooping l cO cough h cases wore on omi the time increase during the tho week 17 cases casus beIn being being be be- In ing reported Scarlet fever anti and smallpox smalLpox smallpox small small- pox continue to lead In tho the other diseases dis eases 17 cases of scarlet fever being reported There Thero were vero cases case of diphtheria three cases of measles and andon andon andon on of or chicken pox Seventeen houses were wore under tinder quarantine at the end of or ortho tho week on account of ot smallpox |