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Show HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING WILL IT I USED US HOSPITAL At a meeting of the emergency health committees, held in the city council chamber yestorday afternoon, under tho presidency of the Mayor. Dr. W. S. Harrison made a statement with regard to health conditions in the city and pleaded for bigger, better equipped and immediate emergency hospital facilities, stating that the more patients that could be isolated at the boginuing of their suffering, the better for the realized hopes of an epidemic overcome. In this statemont. Dr. Harrison was strongly supported by T, G. Burt, and the Rev. John Edward Carver and Henry C. Johnson rose to announce that, thought the building was large and in some respects might not be an easy building to handle for the purposes purpos-es contemplated, yet, Avlth willingness the board of education was desirous that the city board of health should use the high school premises for the purposes mentioned. Inspector George Shorten told how the situation In the county and in tho city also was so serious that an emergency emer-gency hospital of the kind suggested would be a great relief to both doctors and patients. ' The offer was unanimously accepted ' and a special committee of manage- I ment to act with the Wober county and Ogden city health boards was elected: i John Edwa,rd Carver, Thomas Burt, Henry C. Johnson, John Spargo and County Commissioner M. P. Brown j were empowered to act and to get into touch with tho Board of Education at their meeting last night, so that the hospital might be opened without un-nocossary un-nocossary delay. At tho meeting last night, Instead of a ratification of Superintendent 'Johnson's offer, strong opposition was voiced by Dr. Edward I. Rich who eventually moved a motion which was seconded by J. H. Riley to the effect that the board "defer tendering of the high school building to citizens' com- , mittee for hospital purposes unless it ; be shown and demonstrated to our complete satisfaction that other suitable suit-able buildings cannot be secured, be- . cause of the great danger of pcrman- ent contamination and endangering the lives of students returning to . school." Tho opinions expressed by Dr. Rich , wore supported by Charles H. Barton, , president of the Weber club, and by , Dr. E. M. Conroy. Thanking the board for their inter- j view, Mr. Carver and his committee , withdrew. . |