Show measles situation the initial efforts of the new summit county health unit the personnel of which consists of dr Q B corey coray county health officer and miss sarah pum frey rey acting county nurse have been devoted mainly to a checking up of the measles situation in park city within the past week eveia school child not absent from school has been inspected tor for signs of measles and most of the physicians of the city have been conferred with for advice and information regarding the present epidemic the con census of opinion seems to be that carelessness on the part of some families in isolation of their sick children Is the cause of the wide spread na ture ot of measles in this case as in the case of other epidemics inspection in the schools by the teachers has been a rigid practice in park city tor for some time nevertheless this alone could not prevent contagion where children are not carefully observed at home and kept in when ill dr bardsley city physician Is working unceasingly in his capacity as quarantine officer the other local doctors are also making an earnest and effort to care tor for the present sick children and prevent others from becoming infected by a new ruling in the schools no child may return to school after having been absent without having first obtained a certificate of health from the city physician with the enforcement of this rule and the careful operation cooperation co of the mothers and fathers it Is hoped and expected that the number of measles cases in park city will be markedly mai kedly decreed decreased within a very short tune time |