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Show INFLUENZA BOBS UP AGAIN IN CEDAR I ourtrrn in Seven Home Reported hy Physician Kijtid Precautions Are Taken. Vnne It with a Krcnt Heal of regret learned tlmt Cedar City ha n iiuniher of cusen of influenza RfOtn, It was reported Wednesday afternoon that there were two or three suspicious cases of illness, and the City Hoard of Health was convened at 2 that it is p. m., when Dr. lierstrom NpMttfd three cases of influenza n tv homes and other suspicious CUHj aii't iec-ommended that fuaranMni- mnikttr he adopted. It was decided hy ihe lliimil tha picture show, church ualherin.jrs, dances, and puhlic socials lie prohibited and that health utftjMRtion he renewed at the H. A. C. an ICIsjHihI at the district school. It ws further decided to issue poatffl (nutiot'-ing people of the dnnn-T. The Board was call'd togethev at 10 a. m. yesterday afc-i;n whe:i Dr. I' TR-stroni reported fourteen cases of the "flu" in seven home's. It win 'tended that all schools, btyinning I'ri day. Mar. N (tolay) Ik- closed for one week, or until the case of flu arc safely quarantined, after which they will be permitted ! open under strict regulation; that pool hall-, ba closed indefinitely and that all places of business le required to )i.plny prominently before tUtoMCfM posters notiflying them of t'i" danger of congregating, which h is vJnM been 1 ! ' done. It was further -le.-idod that the Mayor and City Council be requested to apoint three deputy mwclialB, ' which officers are to make im mediately an inspection of" the town MM nrport conditions to the City Physician. It is hoped by these prompt and decisive measures, and the strict ijuar-, antine of all cases that are reported ' i or discovered to prevent a general or wide-spread epidemic of the Iiko.-i.-w. Kvery case of illness that appear: at all suspicious should lie rninptly reported, and the persons nfllicted should be promptly isolated until the real nature of their illness can lie definitely determined. Let us profit by past experienc is well as the experience of other towns and exercise every precautioii now, so' that we will not have to return to tho condition that prevailed among us! during- the greater uartlnH of the winter juiit passed. |
