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• The city health board has been receiving criticism regarding the masks orders; Morgan made a statement last night responding to it• Highlights of Morgan’s statement, quoted in full by the Star: “This was not for the purpose of causing an inconvenience to the public, as some conscientious objectors have stated, but to prevent infection…The wearing of gauze masks is not a pet whim of any member of the health department…This is not a time for destructive criticism, petty jealousies or all-time ‘knockers,’ but an occasion for every individual to aid in the enforcement of the preventive measure to the end that disease and death may be reduced to a minimum;” Morgan also states that the mask order was adopted so that people could follow their normal activities as much as possible and that the only alternative to universal compliance is a rigid ban• Morgan also addresses complaints regarding the inability to properly breathe with a mask; he says that masks should not be worn so tightly as to prevent “perfect aeriation”[sic]• Morgan also sent another letter to John J. Mahoney, supt. of the street car company, informing him that street cars must be properly ventilated, and that: “It is a crime against sanitation to keep the ventilators, windows and doors closed in a street car during the entire day’s run and to compel patrons to ride in a disease incubator which is full of dust, carrying every kind of bacteria;” he stated elsewhere that police will enforce the ventilation of the street cars if the company does notNewspaper article