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Show on the matter up. authorizing health j officers in all flections f the county ! to exercise the greatest care and vigilance vig-ilance la preventing the spread of contagious con-tagious disease.1, and It Is anticipated that this will have much to do wltu i the prevention an.t eradication of Hie j diseased. . ' 1 Chairman ' Madson ' of the county I' board oT commissioners says a unrulier unru-lier of eases of scarlet fever, In a very mild form, nav been reported from a number of the country districts, but he la of the opiuion.thnt the quarantine quaran-tine officers will be p.Uc to cope successfully suc-cessfully with the situation and prevent pre-vent anything like nn epidemic. It was reported at the council meet-i meet-i ing last night that a certain physician 1 of (he city had permitted scarlet fe-J fe-J ver to exist In a family for 30 days without reporting the same to the health department, even keeping the Information from the parents of the aick ohildrcn. This case has been reported re-ported to tho state bowd of health, and It will also be called to tho notice no-tice of the city board. It is intimated intimat-ed 'by members of the health board that a criminal prosecution may be the result or the investigation. Another matter that will likely receive re-ceive the Immediate attention of tho health officers is the report made by Councilman Austin of the First ward In tho council meeting last night that milk had been distributed to families for their use from placos infested with typhoid fever. I There Is to be a great cleaning up l campaign Inaugurated,1 and unclean!!-ness unclean!!-ness is to be wiped out CAMPAIGN IS ON TOR SANITATION All Forms of Uncleanliness Are to Receive the Attention of City , Authorities Contagious Diseases Will Be Closely QuarantinedCareless Quar-antinedCareless Doctor Reported to State Board of Health. 'At tho meeting of the city council i last night Ccrancllmau Dicksoji con- ! veyed the idea that scarlet fever Is spreading at on alarming rato in Ogden Og-den and that strenuous measures should bo taken to chock its progress, prog-ress, no thought that tho sanitary Inspector needed more help to cope with tho disease, and to that end the inspector was authorized to omploy another deputy it necessary. Inspector Poulter said this morning that ho does n5l think it will be necessary nec-essary to employ extra help, and that the health, conditions of the city are rwell in hand. Comparing the report of today with that of last year for the month of November, there la hut very little difference la the conditions. condi-tions. Last year the report from tho sanitary department showed 28 casea of scarlet fever, S of diphtheria, 1 of measles, 4 ot chlckenpox and 2 of typhoid fever. The report for the samo month, November, this year shows 32 cases of scarlet fever, 4 of. tj-phoid, 2 of measles and 1 of smallpox, small-pox, the latter cat being on Adams avenue between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth streets, ln the home of Hans Jensem The origin of this isolated iso-lated case of smallpox is not known Jo tho health officers. The city board o health has recommended rec-ommended that every possible precaution precau-tion be taken by tho officers of tho sanitary department in checking the Bpread of nil contagious diseases, It having come to thQ knowledge of tho "board that much contagion prevails in the city and surrounding settlements. settle-ments. The provision Inspector has been detailed especially to make rigid and frequent Inspection of all sources of milk supply, that none but that which is free from disease germs shall be sold to the people, and the strictest of saultary regulations have been ordered or-dered carried into effect. Deputy Sanitary Inspector Wintle says tbar the sanitary' regulations have never been better since his ser-' ser-' Aicii iu the- health department during the jvist t.w years, and that he can Sfe no reason for particular alarm. -Mr. Wlntk- stotea that the health department de-partment bar the unfaltering support and aid of the city board if education educa-tion aud. all the teachers of the city schools, and that thov an- aiding very matrally in locating di?enso among the children He says that the teaeh-es teaeh-es ic-ep a careful watch of the physical phys-ical condition of the students and send the children home whenever there Is any Indication of illness, then immediately reporting the same to the health department. Thi- city health officers are Inclined t think considerable contagion Is brought into the city from outlving tlUtrictr, where there are no doctors. doc-tors. A number of casg of scarlet fever have been reported from sur rounding settlements, and it Is known that children afflicted with the fever have visited the theaters In the city, but the county health board has tak- |