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Show BE PRUDENT. Spanish influenza is spreading to all parts of" the United States, and drastic measures are being put into operation in some of the cities and efforts made to get the disease under control. Jt may run its course in a few weeks and it may last nil winter. The. fact that many of the cases prove fatal should be sufficient warning to the people of Salt Lake and Utah now that the city and state has been invaded by the epidemic. epi-demic. While we should not be unduly alarmed, we should give heed to the health authorities and implicitly follow their advice, for ''an ounce of prevention preven-tion is worth a pound of cure." Several Sev-eral Utah soldiers have fallen victims to th disease which is now raging iu all the army cantonments in spite of jail that medb science can do to stamp : it out. The danger in the cities is far greater than in the camps, lor the simple sim-ple rep. son that civilians a re not so easily controlled as soldiers, nnd cases .ir not reported to the health authorities authori-ties as promptly as they should be. It is highly important that every suspected sus-pected ca-e should be fully investigated, and we utge quick action upon the part of both eit:.:eiis and physician-. lie-ports lie-ports 'di-oild not be delayed a si.igl-' in it ant if we a i e to e.-.ape the nc, no's of this malady. We hae n.i desire to se the school-, the. iters and eh-irehes eloped and public assemblages of alii kind" forbidden. That is what has hap- ! j eiied in ume of the itie fr,.m Uma ha to the Atlantic s-a board. It will' happen h--re un!"-'- due caution is exrr- j .i-ied. I-Ct u S to it that Spanish in- j linen.-.. i uoes not gudu & foothold in his' community. |