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Show BBS9MimM4HvMKMA i-iiir-trii i an tmt itt r tin i ii I ram ii m i i i AHCXUC DEATH t5TAUC5 jiawiaijpahGtcrcH I I .1 .Ml. l PanguiUb, th county' aat of Garfield county, for several weeks, has been in the grip of disease and death, according to information received frem residents resi-dents of that place. It appears that measles be-camo be-camo epidemic in Escalantc, a smaller town nearby and without with-out medical supervision, and children from that placo visited Panguitch and attended the picture show while suffering from tho measles. The result was that the disease spread in the latter place to 3uch an extent that it was necessary to close the schools, and for more than a month the city has been without with-out school. A number of persons were attacked at-tacked by pneumonia while suffering suf-fering from tho effects of the measles, and the deaths that havo followed havo been alarming alarm-ing for such a limited community. com-munity. There were four deaths in one day last week and at one time there were seven bodies awaiting burial. The sister cities will sympathize sympa-thize With Panguitch, and hope that soon the conditions now present will be eliminated and the community regain its normal hoalthy con dit.it ion. It serves as an examplo of tho necessity for enforcing quarantine laws against contagious diseases. |