Shut The Saloons, Says Mgr. Cassidy

• Rt. Rev. Mgr. James E. Cassidy, D.D. says that the saloons should be closed at once, with prohibitionist fervor: • `Is German brewery power supreme in City and State House? Are our newspaper men all Brisbanes that their lips are dumb? Must the well grow sick, the sick die, the dead lie unburied while the saloons the most prolific source of contagion, puff disease into our faces from every street corner?’• “The question of closing saloons will be taken up and while it is not known what the board’s action will be it can be stated as a fact that the handling of this feature of the situation will have to be in conjunction with the Board of Police and License...[City Health] Agent Morriss said this morning that all places where food and drink are served ought to be required to have properly fitted arrangements for cleaning and sterilizing glasses, cups and other utensils, where individual utensils are not used.• Supt. Bisbee asked to stop the crowding taking place on Bay State Street Rail Co. cars • Undertakers reported to be working to keep funeral attendance down, including by discontinuing the usual custom of “leaving a considerable number of camp held in waiting for the day of the funeral services” and issuing funeral notices without “relatives and friends are invited to attend”.The Contagious hospital is being used continuously.Newspaper article