| Show P r if 21 E 0 0 F I 1 u FUSE UHE r 6 T L quarantine regulations i ons established providing that persons coming r into city will vill be placed in in quarantine CITY PHYSICIAN RESIGNS WHEN LID IS CLAMPED CLAMPED TIGHT about fifty families quarantined ined and over aai awi cases are rep reported arted hit hardest of any town in inthe the state I 1 the influenza situation has grown to alarming proportions in richfield and sevier county at the present writing there are about cases in richfield with many crises cases in practically every town in the county just where the disease got its present start is a matter of conjecture it is credited to a dozen different sources with no adequate conclusion cl the quarantine regulations are alleged to have been grossly violated persons are said to have come here from other places who were innocent carriers of the disease while house parties and other gatherings are alleged to have contributed tri buted their quota to the epidemic mayor poulson was urged to call citizens to his aid in determining means to combat the spread of the disease accordingly a number of well known men met at the court house on monday night to discuss the matter mayor poulson stated the object of the meeting and in turn each man present made a statement as to what indis his opi akiK should prevent further spread of the disease the men aien were a unit in urging a strict quarantine the only difference appeared when the meaning of strict quarantine was broa broached clied all wanted strict quarantine but several deemed a strict qua quarantine alitine to apply to those afflicted and the homes where the afflicted were others took the ground that strict quarantine should embrace the afflicted the homes and all persons coming into richfield the latter view was finally adopted as the sense of the meeting among those who expressed themselves favoring strict quarantine measures wl afre re judge hayes R D young john christensen Chrie A K hansen A J ashman A guy lewis D R mitchell zohn hood joseph anderson andersn shera Shei faff W S greenwood marshal and george pet arson others had bad ihsen be pen invited to Q participate in the meeting but did not attend tuesday evening mayor poulson presented the matter to CRY city physician B R 0 C dark clark but the latter did not be aeye the attempt to keep people from entering the city or of quarantining an for jour four daya a who did come in would result in any good however he consented ito try it but shortly after arriving at that decision dr dark clark tendered lits resignation to lo mayor poulson saying ying that he wanted the other doctors to have tile the experience of ct the kicks kicka nud complaints pla ints on wednesday JI marshal arshal established the quarantine by stationing men orl on the main highway north and south of town and i appointing a man to meet trains and notify b passengers as getting olt off at this station bof of the quarantine regulations I 1 taking their names and destination and reporting these to the officers one citizen returning from salt lake 0 on n wednesdays train treated 1 the noti notice cc as somewhat of a joke I 1 but was as rudely on oil T thursday Al marshal arshal found I 1 him on the street and compelled him I 1 to return a to his home and stay there word was sent to other counties of the quarantine established here so that people contemplating I a visit to richfield would know what they were af up against meantime four victims of the disease had died and the undertaking parlors tor for the first time in the history of the city contained four bodies awaiting burial these were mrs willard anderson mrs airs jane gledhill mrs larsen of central and mr gardner of the sugar factory A representative of the state board of helillo hertah was in the county this vc p h d fa onla Z u sen sell on thursday commending the action of the city in establishing a quarantine and he particularly insisted that ole atmosphere and conditions in in the fac vicinity of the sugar factory were conducive to the development of influenza it was at first intended to permit nien men employed nt at the sugar factory to attend their work each day and return in the evening but later this was changed and in an order issued that employees eMlo of the ugar factory would be required to stay there Ale meantime antime there are about 50 fam and about cases reported the school management believes that it if a rigid quarantine is is maintained for a few weeks schools will bo be opened the latter end of this month from the south comes startling st reports Tep of influenza ravages CI r cleville and are suffering from a renewed epidemic A rb report P ort was current hero bere in the early part of the wee week k that panguitch had cases this was vas doubted but a telephone message from u lady there to her daughter in conveyed the tidings that there were leases dr steiner loft left for that city yesterday morning and his arrival there was hailed with joy it is said the spread ot of the disease Is directly traceable to the lifting of the strict quarantine the opening of public meetings amusements and the schools if the number of cases is reported correctly one halt half of the population of panguitch is afflicted with the dread disease |
