| OCR Text |
Show I AND COLD CASES HAVE BEEN I ,. REPORTED Dill OCTOBER I According to statistics received from tho city board of health this morning, the month of October -was a monih heavy in tolls of sickness and death. Of course this Is entirely due lo the presence pres-ence of the scourge of Spanish Influenza Influ-enza which has afflicted this city, as it has afflicted almost every city and community in the entire country There is good reason to believe that the epidemic has been lighter here than in many other parts of the country, coun-try, both in the number of persons stricken with tho disease as well as in the number of those who lost their lives owing to the contagion. The doctors of the "city have reported report-ed 10 the local health board 29.1 G cases of colds, bad colds, grippe and influenza. influ-enza. Many of the cases reported were not serious at all and especially during the past weeks there has been in- creasing evidence of increasing care on the part of the great mass of the citizens of Ogdcn and a determined and beneficent conspiracy to defeat the spreading of the disease. No confirmation of the report in Salt Lake papers of a state order quarantining every household and Its members, where infjuonza is present, has yet been received at the local office of-fice although this report has consis- tently appeared in those papers for the last three days. .The city board of ! health is in perfect readiness for such an order at any moment it may come. Cards have been printed and are ready to affix to the houses where sufferers lie sick of this complaint and the staff of the city board of health will address itself to this further method of prevention, pre-vention, should the state board order it, but it is not thought advisable that I such a method should bo used in Og- den alono when Salt Lake and other parts of the state are not adopting it. I As for the opening of schools, and other public places, it is Impossible, says Mr. Shorten to say anything definite. def-inite. Rumors abound but there is ! nothing whatever known about an jj exact date and ample warning will be j given to the people of the city as to the date when everything in the way li of public activity may take on normal ! aspect again ' I Owing to the extreme pressure of I work on tho doctors of the cty, said l Mr, Shorten, It Is impossible to com- v pile a statistical dally report, until 5 I o'clock each evening, as the doctors I nro all busy calling upon their pat- i lents in tho mornings. From 5 o'clock I Thursday to 6 o'clock Friday only 35 1 new cases of colds, grippe and influ- I enza had been reported. Deaths reported from influenza since 2 o'clock yesterday are those of Graham Gra-ham Cross, and Albert LeRoy Leavitt. and Earl Hermann oo |
