Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-03-19 | Page 2 | Only Three Cases of Plague

A in p in CASES A 3 OF U i ak H I 1 tr POT lailar aars anul aul 1 san francisco Pran cisco authorities friye 01 4 ye out official statement to public san francisco march IS 18 in order to correct many misleading statements which hive been made regarding the presence pre senco of bubonic plague in san francisco the following official state 1 mint ment was given out today I 1 I 1 the undersigner undersigned under signed are gratified ta t state that tho plague situation is ver vcr much improved and is still improving there having been since the first day of january of the present year but two verified and but three clinical cases of plague with only one death since the beginning of the year what makes the situa tion peculiarly and distinctively satisfactory is the thorough co operation on the part of the city authorities and the citizens generally in the work ot al sanitation there Is every prospect that by the time the fleet anchors in the day bay of san francisco the will be cleaner than it ever has been in its history it Is quite evident to us that the danger of an epidemic from plague ig very remote signed EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR mayor of son san francisco Franc faco BLUD P A surgeon U S pub H and M X 11 S commanding anti plague operations