Show HEALTH Of V HILDREN IS I V PLACED IN DEADLY PERIl V The health of Salt Lakes Lake's school children is hei being henig g put in n party of gOY gov t. t The sons sorts sorts' daughters of taxpayers taxpayer daily clui- are arc facing n a il inci increasing easing danger of infection because of the of the city officials D Disease breeding n grounds d are nrc allowed to toD go 1 within a t Rl few of or schoolhouses school houses I Water Vater Is IB allowed d to stand stagnant week after week to produce germ carrying Insects Ito Itc- fuse which should have havo been leen curried carried away awn awa long lon before winter ended IH Is I. I nt al- al lowed hewed to doca decay under tho time growing bent t of the time sun attn Aile Alleys reek with uncollected gai garbage bage All MI or of these o ll mean menn that Infectious diseases aro are bound to increase b bv by leaps heaps nn and bounds U Ith lh hot weather veather coming on apace the tho out omit outlook outlook look of the school authorities it iii IH becoming be ItO- coming coining frightful Tho The HI school EIghth West st stand and Sixth South streets Is a example of time the laxity of at the tho city health d department Like an Island l in time the midst of ot a sea flea of rottenness it Jt is Js surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded on all sides by rank dumps pool after pool of unclean water vater alloYs alleys filled with reeking uncollected garbage gar gar- bage DI Children AIm Aheady the time rays of or the tIme theRun sun Run upon this accumulation of filth has had Its effect Disease Is 19 rampant among tho time pupils at al tho the Riverside school A Alar lar largo large e percentage Je of the pupils are arc III with ith scarlet fever fc or typhoid New ew cases are of or almost dally occurrence There Thero is not a block for squares around which has not Its epidemic sign Teachers and pupils alike go o dally to the time schoolhouse with fear In th theli hearts for they do not know at what moment the time laden germ breezes ml may fasten the deadly baccilli upon th them m Every wind that blows In through tho the windows is so foul that windows must down or mouths and nostrils be stuffed with handkerchiefs But nut windows windows win win- dows can not stav stay down In Iii this warm weather Especially lly must the time school schoolrooms schoolrooms schoolrooms rooms have ventilation at this season 8 of or the time year So teachers and pupils are compelled to dare daro the peril of In Infection In- In Fumigation atlon is an almost dally daily necessity to combat time the danger of or disease dis dis- ease case All of or those these things have been report report- cd ell to tho time health department Of nr the time city administration But nut not nt a 0 move moo has I been beem made to clean up the district One Otto garbage wa wagon on lma has been seen In tho time neighborhood In tho the last six nix I months The rime Riverside school Is located In limo Iho center of a it thriving district which Is peopled principally by simon shop workers TiRre Is no no crowding cr Evoly head of ot ofa ota a family earns wages which permit him to feed ecu and clotho lothe his children In a I Large rge arge spaces of varmint vacant property properly provide plenty of pla play pla ground But nut It la is In these playgrounds that the danger danser lurks The They are aio mae made the dumping ground for tor manure accumulations accumulations lations of oC garbage which the tho householders householders house house- holders despairing o of relief from time the city have hae been heen compelled to get Jet rid i of somehow All winter inter long this filth has hag lain there alternately disintegrating through thaws and arid freezes II absorbing th tho moisture of tho the spring rains The heat of tho the last few tow days dl's has completed completed com corn plated tho time rest rost Dump In I Front of School One Ono of at these theo dumps Is 18 situated di directly directly di- di In front of ot tho time Riverside school It is scarcely yards ards to the east cast When the wind vind blows from fram that direction di direction direction di- di the stench In the tito school rooms Is ha overpowering A block farther north Is tho the River River- Riverside side annex where a class clasH of tho youngest oun t children aro are taught ht This too is In lit time the cepter of a district reek reek- hug ing with filth because the American administration w not clean up o Yesterday Yes Yos- morning a nM as the time sun rose rase tho time became hl so vile that It was al ni- ni m most t i impossible to continue continuo t tion I 0 n. n Two rooms rOom were fumigated atell yesterday yester ester yesterday day In the tho Riverside chool They were classes No 1 and No 3 In the tho first a little girl had hod been taken down suddenly with scarlet fever favor In tho the second her brother It was feared had exposed his schoolmates The alloys around the school aro described as do- do The They are filled with the time winters winter's garbage tin tin cans bits of edibles now no In tho the last stages of or decal de de- cay cal Co everything ever that will help holl to spread disease as ns tho the sun becomes warm or Directly In front of ot tho the school Is a pool of oC water which has been there thero ever since winter broke broko Every er E shower Continued on Pace I r. 1 I I HEALTH of CHI DR EN ENIN IN DEADLY PERIL Continued ll Iron from Inge Ine One Orn adds to it It ft for or thorn there Is no way for It to Mow how off The rhe outlets have o become stopped up and the American party administration administration ad nd- ministration will wUI not take tolee the tho trouble to send a man with a hoo boo to open a n. channel for the pool noel I Two and a half blocks south of the tho school Is a swamp which Is not drained drained drain drain- ed from years year's end to years year's end It ItIs ItIs Is IH one of the tho most mORt I prolific breeding places for fey mosquitoes and flies in to Salt alt Lake To It Is charged much of 01 tho the sickness which has afflicted the children children children chil chil- dren of that section This swamp recently recently re recently re- re became so flooded that two families am Illes who lived beside it were compelled compelled com coin polled to keep their children homo home from school for tor two days das They simply could not get Iet In or out Tho The principal of the Riverside school has called the attention of tho the city health authorities to the condition of ot affairs around his school Apparently his protests have been Ignored for not nota a city has put In nn an appearance appearance appear appear- ance once either to lo Investigate In matters or orlo orto orto to lo remedy that state of affairs In Inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime tho the spread of or Infectious diseases grows Is at hand when the Ue dumps and garbage e heaps will prove tho the choicest of ot breeding grounds and the stagnant pools will furnish millions of at disease carrying mosquitoes |