erly Burden | 7 Shifts to City Schools The flu bug was apparently FtloudaCuy:tsin WCiidtyerScShwoaoth ls— | By easing the pressure to return to Classes, he said. / week kept’ hundreds of stud ents at| The elementary schools there has| | hot been a marked incr /home today. ease ‘sent students, Dr. Flinders ‘saidin abDr. Arley Flinders, Ogden City jes . "| PTS physician - toward the 2,500 mark. It has been| ™ . increasing gradually since Monday, | ' when a few more than 2,000 stu-| said | in Some schools had approached nearly 400 per cent of - (normal. The illness has not hosp italized any students, he said, and appar- | ently is keeping children home a _ relatively short time . He would} _ hot comment on when ye Attendance os in - climbed again today the county as absent students) dropped to 1,568 from yesterday's , on Improvement was noted in} which had was down has been in The city -a complete climbed to 600 last —| to 163° today, lowest it | two: weeks. district does not make | report of absenteeism | | like the county, but a check of sev- the continued decrease in absentee- ie "ism relieves the pressure for clos- : ing the schools. Earlier this week : he was seriously considering clos‘ing as the respiratory ailment cut : into attendance. a he city schools close for spring | “ ee vacation ee tonight, giving the stu- | cSt dents a three-day holiday to fight | | the influenza. eset: ir. nar ie TR my es aera RT ; em TTR TN YF SNS a REY Ag one of the compared 30. | Roy with a normal of ae ee Re | ism jumped from 20 to about 7. THE Aba ‘ i _ Officials reported m : a ‘ Y ZOOMED | Absenteeism at. Moun Junior High zoome dup t- Ogden’; from about I — 40 to 110 and at Weber High ‘School, 41 students missed clas ses. » About 188 students were mark ed! _ - “absent’’ today at Central Junior | ( ‘High School. ‘That was twice the} nor and school | more than 100) : Dy ae | mal amount, Dr. Flinders : At Ogden High School, near said. ly 90} ' boys failed to show up i a aaa eo CEO Ue Ve CR C7 : absent | Another hard-hit school about } was Junior High, where absentee -{ oe Z eral schools indicates attendance} is still dropping. : ° Weber Supt. aE. HA. Bell said today heavier ‘Probably . Le OC MURR t hit] schools, percentage- -wise wors was South Junior High School in South Ogden + where 112 students were _ At the high school absenteeism — | ee - a peak mighty ~ be reached. | all three levels — elementary, junior high and Weber High School. 7 and health director, ' absenteeism dents were reported out in the 29) heel: Lindsley the past, ning somewhat | the county district. Reports from city schools indi- | ~ _ cated that absenteeism was edging | os ‘in _ schools. Dick include a mild flies sore | The flu- -type illness that throat| hay besa Land respirator y infection. | trying to get a foothold St uon gden’ dents absent last week were begin- | | are school students for con- | | centrating on the city schools today : and A Ay ata oe fe ACTA Reuben iM oe e , “i : a | eae es os y © Or ‘girls — double the normal he pe — Were FC reportedly home ill. Ce PT ea t ree Dr. Flinders said it “sy eae mpt oms e y MRR aa ene ws. i ae fae re 7 saree ce 2 ie ik | ( re a ds "FEWER STUDENTS yea oF miss SCHOOL IN Ss COUNTY AND city Sik AE f SEAS Bea a 7 Je ee ue 3 Be Ree fe i ee Bas ie eh ars By _ a | a ales eae _ | yao eis one | that 3 the flu bug was industrial firm serious Increase = % ATTENDANCE | a | AO Ca _ ies reported any in sick tare: LE on? AS RR Le, ee se eames Smet Sewewen coronas o ‘| - ere Ta |) almost normal attend. The return to normal was welcome by both district s where the bug had cut attend ance in Some schools up to 50 per several] days. ene ee suspen NORMAL students. Superintendents in both districts reported attendan ce has returned to “‘just about normal’’ today although some Gases were reported. scattered Neither district toda y ecompleted a count of total absenteeism after yesterday’s check showed ance. os | The flu bug has appa rently Siven up its weeks. long attack for mae irs a ae on city and county scho ol atta men : temperature of 99 to 100. ee _ ATTACK ON SCHOOLS, cking adults, although no business or | a "FLU BUG GIVES UP_ SRE tricts _ : SY total students out in either dis. today but officials estiMated absenteeism has dr oppe below 10 per cent for the firstd time in several weeks. There were spotted reports | RU EPa o eae ie DB The flu bug appeared to be slackening its Srip on the Ogden area today as city and county schools reported cont inued improvement in attendan ce. No count was taken of the al ve LEN cent | ; ay ne | raise a a an As