Mill City Closed

• [Minneapolis]• Dr. H.M. Guilford, City Health Commissioner took drastic action yesterday closing all places where crowds congregate. They will remain closed until all danger of an epidemic has passed• The action of the Minneapolis department of health was confirmed by the city council yesterday and it closes all schools, churches, theaters, dance halls, moving picture houses and similar places• The order is applicable to all parts of the city, except to the University of Minnesota, which is under state authority and not under the jurisdiction of the Minneapolis municipal government• University President Dr. M.L. Burton is inclined to believe that it would be safe to open the University according to a schedule Wednesday and then place around the students additional safeguards that would make them actually safer than they would be at home• Dr. H.M. Bracken, executive officer of the State Board of Health said last night that he was opposed to opening the University at this time and that we was opposed to closing any school which is already opened• Dr. Charles E. Smith, Assistant Secretary of the State Board of Health also opposed closing the schools saying “children are better off under the supervision of nurses and teachers in schools than when playing in the streets”• [St. Paul]• St. Paul city officials held a conference yesterday with representatives of the ST. Paul association and the State Board of Health and decided that conditions in this city do not justify any drastic action such as the banning of public meetings• The position taken by St. Paul city officials is that a “self-constituted quarantine established by the citizens is more likely to prevent a spread of the disease here than any official action that could be taken”Newspaper article1,