| Show Urges Continuation of School Sessions The following following le Is taken taken from the Deseret Evening Lake of Jan 18 and contains common sense lo logic lc and truths which should be bo read react and heeded by br school patrons patron wad and citizens generally t Now is le the time for the people t to exercise wiL om i. i id safeguarding ir t alth conditions od Nothing Is le to tobe tobe tobe be gained through through fear or hysteria much Is to to-be to be gained by observing l rulee of quarantine the thel l oth alth and the avoidance of ot close cloRe contact with those who may be bethe the carriers carriere of con con- Coughs colds sneezing and anda a condition or of temperature tho the 1 I. e. e a temperature over degrees should not go unheeded Good food rr fresh h derl te exercise a warm bath followed br by care and a cathartic I will aid In raising railing the power of ot re- re slating listing disease 1 Since we must live Uve together as aa a community are we not as w we observe bi ry he foregoing rules and taws laws by going about our ou out dally daily occupations and iid activities lUea as we would be If Hus ere re cut off by official decree and we we were compelled to remain at home and thus be deprived of the means of ot livelihood All will admit the wisdom of strict maintenance of quarantine This should apply to the sick and not not to the well We should be consistent even though we happen to be In an official position Is It consistent to close a p public school and permit a street carto carlo runt run BUILDINGS S SANITARY The The school ool buildings a are e sanitary well well lighted lighted heated ventilated and I h house house- us runder under expert l supervision and I inspection only those who are known to be in perfect health All who show the slightest symptoms of disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease are immediately excluded and if it found to be afflicted with a contagious con con- contagious or an infectious disease they ar are are Immediately tely placed under quarantine antine By Dy being In school the well children and a iv west vast st majority are well are not only kept aloof aloot from the danger of contact with the afflicted afflicted afflicted af af- af- af ones but coming as they do do from practically all homes al'-homes homes In the com corn they form an army of protectors protectors protectors pro pro- of the public health and en enforcers enforcers enforcers en- en forcers of the rules of of quarantine and the laws laws' of health which cannot be overestimated for its worth Recent statistics from the largest city in the world New York where the schools were kept In session show a lower per cent of mortality than ban is Is' shown in to any of the other large arge cities where the schools were c closed SCHOOLS T PLACE If fathers fathers' and mothers generally were asked to the safest place for their when not under direct paternal care unhesitatingly would be the answer answer In In the public schools Each day the children are Inspected by liy a trained nurse and nd constantly constantly constantly con con- by principals principals' teachers and andea ea each h other Any child who feels indisposed indisposed indis indis- posed In the slightest degree is sent home lome The school therefore Is kept per cent Nearly Near Nearly ly lyall ly all of the pa have have child child- school age appreciate this situation situation situation sit sit- and send th their lr children to school A few however keep their children en out through ugh fear or as a pre pre- cau caution on All Alt who attend d. school chool make ke their grades w whereas those who remain remain re re- m main ln out while asses are progress tag lug will m. i of necessity lose their class standing and cannot make their gr grades des I would n not t be Understood as claiming th that t the i m kh g i grade or the maintaining of class standing are the Important all-Important things thIngs' but I 1 Ido Ido do claim that these things are important Im im- im porta nt when one considers that the health conditions In the public I schools are equal to those homes and vastly superior to those In most homes homel not attempting to tomake tomake tomake make comparison with homes homel where children ire are are permitted to run about uncontrolled led p ted and little cared carid for tor I IJ r It Ii IB Je Fear Dear wilt will d and may do much mur harm rat t. t brotherly r t love ove and a a. ate att te t al will 0 bl help more more than shouting disease disease dis ease eale arid and death deatE d The of wis wll domand n ie needed In all places high nd low Nothing i is Unsettled etU d until It Is la Bettl settled d dr r right and to be right It must be Consistent tent The rhe writer r b Relieves Believes U na fh that t the health 10 conditions condition in city are re sate safe In to th the hands hand ot or the city board of health whose whole whose chief is Ie on a re record ord as aB as saying Health conditions are ale safer when the schools school are In session OSCAR VAN COTT |
