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Show INFLUENZA STATUS I SMYJpiG Health OHicer Encouraged and Hopes to Check Spread hy Quarantining Travel. VISITORS WHO STOP HERE WILL BE QUARANTINED Special Relays of Officers to .mini , Against Exposure from this Source Schools Scheduled to Open December De-cember 30 if Conditions Warrant. The influenza situation in Cedar today is considered to be encouraging, on the whole, while there is still a considerable number of cases with us. At present there are 79 cases, distributed distrib-uted through 25 families. Of this number a good many are practically over the disease and the quarantine will he removed from quite a number of the homes within the next three or four days. The local health officer feels that we have the situation pret ty well in hand here and can prevent any material spread until the disease is eradicated if the travel can be handled hand-led in such a way as to prevent new cases from being brought in from the outside. Recently a man came in here from the north and 25 cases were directly di-rectly traceable to this exposure. In order to prevent a repetition of this occurence, the City Council has ordered a strict quarantine against all travel from the outside, and persons per-sons from other places, or people of this city visiting olTier settlements, must either drive straight through town without stoping or be isolated and quarantined for five days. In order or-der to enforce this order special officers offic-ers have been placed at all the approaches ap-proaches to the citv. who Will be rc- I . i .i. in i" int; in., wiiii win nt- i' lieved by fresh relays every four hrs. of the 24 and will question and issue instructions to all passers by. Large signs will also be displayed, giving Instructions In-structions to the travelers. The work of the special health officers of-ficers among the afflicted families is also being continued and a more rigid rig-id quarantine of the premises where the disease exists is being maintained. main-tained. By the most careful methods and by the strict enforcement of the masking mask-ing order it is hoped that the epidemic can be eradicated within the next few days and on the strength of this belief, be-lief, December 30th has been designated desig-nated as the date for the opening of schools and the resumption of pub lie gatherings of all kinds. The people themselves can help materially ma-terially in realizing this program by exercising good judgment and care in their intercourse one family with another, an-other, and by refraining from entering enter-ing afflicted homes without suitable protection, even though the sick be re lated to you. It is better that the' services of someone either immune to the disease or trained in nursing it snfely be employed than that unsophisticated unso-phisticated persons who know little or nothing of what they are runing into, and who will in all probability come down with it themselves in two or three days, attempt to nurse the patients. In this way nearly haif of the cases in Cedar City have been communicated. Remember that influenza is one of the most contngious diseases there is and that the only really safe way to avoid it is to keep well clear of it. The Dixie Normal Colloga at St. George resumed work alout a week ago and the Murdock Academy ai Iteavc-r began last Wednesday. It I time that we were getting this plague cleaned up here and our schools under way again. a |