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Show DIPHTHERIA'S TERRIBLE WORK. Four Deaths in an Eighth TTard : Family Wore Cases Throngh-. Throngh-. out the City Sad Need of a ..r : Quarantine Hospital. .Miss Sarah Morris, the last of nine children of Mr. and Mrs George Morris, of the Eighth Ward, died of diphtheria this morning at 9 o'clock, after a terrible struggle with death for several days. Only last week this heartbroken family buried three little ones, and the distracted mother nearly lost her reason ; yesterday she and a sister living in the family were both taken down with fever and sore throats. Mrs. Morris seems utterly unconsolable over her afflictions, and says she no longer cares to live since her nine children child-ren have been taken away from her. The poor woman tore her hair while in such great agony of mind, and to-day she lies prostrate with grief. Mr. Morris stood by the side of his daughter's bed all night, while the struggling girl gasped for breath as though each effort was to be her last. At about 2 o'clock this morning the young lady, in extreme suffering, jumped straight up La Ied and fought for life as only a strangling person can do, and being of strong mind and body, outlived the allotted time given such cases. She Was under poor treatment, treat-ment, from no doctor, and the attempts to combat the disease proved utterly useless. use-less. - On Saturday last Magnus Olsen, of the Eleventh ward, lost a four-year-old boy, and has two others down with the disease. On Fourth South 6treet, near First West, in the Sixth ward, there are two critical cases of the scourge. -Since the first case of diphtheria in Salt Lake this season, the Democbat called attention to the emphatic necessity of the City Council quarantine physician and every citizen uniting all efforts in preventing the spread or dissemination of the terrible disease. Nothing effectual was done, and a dozen articles in a half-and-half morning sheet tabooed the necessity ne-cessity of any stringent precaution being made. Now that diphtheria has carried off about sixty lives an acknowledgment is made by sayine it is time to do something. some-thing. ;. |