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Show TWIN FALLS RECEIVES lira VACCINE TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 1. A limited lim-ited supply of vaccine for the prevention of pneumonia consequent upon influenza has been received by a local drug firm from Seattle, and has been distributed among the physicians of this city. The first lot of the vaccine received here was sufficient for the Immunization of about 120 persons. Additional supplies will be received so long as there is demand for it here. City Clerk W. A. Minnieh, who is reporting re-porting daily to the secretary of the state board of kfialth the number of cases of Spanish Influenza in Twin Falls, reported today the eighty-fourth case. There have been only six deaths since the outbreak of the epidemic here in which influenza has been given as a contributing cause. The county commissioners have opened an emergency annex to the county general hospital for the treatment of influenza patients. There were eighteen such patients pa-tients in the annex today. No deaths have resulted among the cases cared for in the annex. Mrs. Siba Nichska. a nurse employed for five days in the emergency annex, was taken to her home at the end of tha t time today suffering from the malady. |