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Show Influenza Claims 1 4 More Victims Some Improvement Is Apparent HERE is the very latest thing in gauze masks, and it is hound to he fashiouahle. It is put on with greater speed than any gas mask and is very simple. A rubber band holds the four strings and keeps the mask evenly 'fixed on the face. j Influenza Situation Given at Glance Deaths reported in Salt Lake City to date, 141. . Cases reported to date, 2588. Cases reported Wcdnes-! Wcdnes-! day, 72. Cases reported Thursday, ! 119. Deaths reported Wednesday, Wednes-day, 10. Deaths reported Thursday, 14.- An iucrease of forty-seven cases i yesterday, and a rising death rate in Salt Lke. Doctors are asked to report new cases at once so that attention may he given by the board of health and Red Cross. Doctors with private practice volunteer to work under Dr. Eeatty's direction. " ; 1 Health Officials Continue to Sound Note of Warning Warn-ing to Citizens. STATE end city health authorities expressed no consternation last night when a careful check of the Spanish influenza situation in Salt Lake revealed a- marked increase in the number of cases reported for Thursday over the preceding few days. A study of the past records had convinced con-vinced tnem Chat encouraging reports bad often been reocived for two or three days in succession only to have the number of cases increase again on the third or fourth day. Physicians say that the disease dis-ease is not increasing in Salt Lake, but that the epidemic is not abating. The reports received by the city board of health show t hat physicians are not repoiting ca6ds as soon as they are discovered dis-covered Dr. T. B. Bcatty. state health ! commissioner, and Dr. Samuel Paul have j aked that cases be reported at once in i order that immediate inspection may be. made by inspectors of the pity board of j health. I he house placarded and the in- mates warned against infecting others. Thirteen Local Deaths. The following is the death toll as the result of influenza in Salt Lake for Thursday: Thurs-day: Mav- R Mills. 22; Bam Berkwltc, ; Ejnma A nderson, 28; Irene E. i",'al -lister, IS: Edith M. Taylor. 21: Elmer .1. Burn, M; M. Nielsen. 4.V William Cou-Uim. Cou-Uim. 12; John Trinka. 2 ; YV". S. Cole. 33; Mre, L D. Perkins, 31; Privarc Kric Ray and Private fllenn Tenney. John U el row. 021 Uio Grande a venue, died last night, a victim of the epidemic. He was a on of Mr. and Mrs. YV. H. Grow, boTn in 1003. The funeral will lake place in City cemct.-ry tomorrow. Steady improvement of the situation in I'tah is apparent, according to Dr. -T. B.' Beat 1 y of the state board of healt h. yafning is given, however, against any relaxation of effort in combating, the' disease. At Red Cross headquarters (he1 need for nurses and doctors is rcpoited to be as urpent as In the past. There were two deaths from inllueiiza-pnninioi inllueiiza-pnninioi .a at Fort Douglas Isolation hospital hos-pital yesterday. The deaths included Eric Ray. private of C company. Seventieth Seven-tieth cnRineors. at the post, and Glenn Tenney. apprentice eeaman, United States tiav;l reserve con1?, enrolled at the natal mobilization: station in Salt Lake. Tenney Ten-ney in from .Minnesota, originally. Pour new cases of influenza wei e admitted ad-mitted to the isolation her-mital during the day. There were no hew pneumonia case developed. This niahep two days on which no "new pneumonia cases have appeared, but there is a total of about thirty-eight rases in the Isolation hosnital. I 1! said Dr. Bcatty last night. "This order ! must be strictly enforced." From Casllegatc came the report that that town. Cameron and Panther, all coal mining camps, are strictly quarantined. Up to date Uiere have been forty-three cases and two deaths in the district. Warren War-ren Wilson died at Castlegate October. 26. The same physician1 reported a particularly par-ticularly di ptressing ease from Sold lei Summit, where construction work on the 'new yards of the Denver & Rio Grande is going on. He saw seven cases there, all in one boxcar, and one of them had developed pneumonia. The father arid mother were reco ering. and five children were down with the disease. Wellington reports five new cases, bringing the total In that community lo eight Frisco, Utah, put up a problem lo th Btate board of health. It has established a quarantine, according to this report. The railroad Is observing it, but the stage line is not so favorably disposed. Tlie town would like to hold all suspects -for thro or four days, but has no Isolation hospital, nor facilities fo1- such work. Tlie officials wanted to know bow to meet the problem. At, thlp distance Dr. Realty could only tell them that quarantine of suspected cases is usua'ly preferable; hut that, if this is impossible, the town has the power to bar a ny person from coming into the community. Ldjfran reports the disease still spreading spread-ing In that .lowu. Nine now cases are reported from Bingham and one death. Solves Mask Problem. Jdhn T. Clark, mo iN'oss building, has contributed a new type of influna. mask. The chief ( object Ion tn the umial form of gauze mash ha.t been t that it required time to adjust 11 anil lie the four strings which hHd It In place, tf the mask was jerked down from the face, when not In usffi and allowed to hang under the chin the effect was often comical and awk-wa awk-wa rd. Mr. Pin rk has done away with tills awk wa rd met hod. He ifa.s t led tlie four ends of the four strlhgs which hold Ihe . mask in place to a rubber band which ' fits securely about the back- of the brad. All that Is necessary to remove the mask Is a quick iipwiinl jerk. The clastic band makes it possible to &dJuiM the mask h t any angle in the shortest pOSjtple amount of lime. - Mr. Clark developed his Idea from studying study-ing the methods used in adjusting g;is masks at the front. All sorts and conditions condi-tions of masks arc now appearing in ol depCfl in Salt I.n ke. .Most of them have been simple a f fairs, more pads of gauze tied on the fac with atrlngs or tapes. The yashmak or "harem" oil type of mask Is used by many girl clerks in downtown offices, it hanaa loose belotv the chin nd has not BU.Cn n dial urhing and flat tening effect upon i-prlain types of female bcautv. tf r, Ponlty dminn to order the Universal wearing of masks, many fresh and wonderful attempts tn blend beauty and crpphylaxla a nd moid them to the form of a mask or muj1e will promptly appear. Home Becomes Hospital: A family of Armenians, In which there arc nine children, -ft as discovered by nelaiil'ors to be suffcrliiK from influenza yesterday. They requjisteV to be taken to the hospital, but according to Itcrl Cross workers it whs decided to make a. hospital out of the home Instead and Care for them there.' Dr. C. M. Clark of American Pork volunteered vol-unteered his services 16 l r. Beatty yea-tcrday yea-tcrday and his offer wan Immediately accepted. ac-cepted. Ke Vas asked tn ro to Uynndvl. where the situation I reported to bo very serlOUS,' fir. A. S. loonard. a specialist of Salt LaHe4 also voliintecrrd to ahl an was went to Drflgorii where there arc many aertpus cases. ( f.'cn reported foui-" deaths yesterday and thirty-six new cases. fcfenrleA'UJe". in carficid county, aiid r'.Miebcii. in Duchesne, were new towns to reporl cases of Influenza yesterday. frtK- bsm City reported nine new cases; T't-ovo. fifteen new C&4S and two deaths; Kamas report s l iie situation under control. Or, T. A. I lerenbefg reports llml he has treated Hi) cases and four deaths' have occurred in that town. Marlon reports 20 caves: Oakley, JJ8 cases untl one death; KuniHH. 20 cases and one death; vVood? 'and and Prancls, ninety rasex nnd two deaths! Monroe, elgh,! cues and no deaths: Oak City reports the situation ap-ta ap-ta rently elea v ; Orantsifle report s three deatlis lii as many days. Clarkston has had no pea cases since October 74, TTattls haa nh new c'aso to reporl aiid a!l former cases Have re- vnvered. inawaina naa three new eaMe: Hyrum developed four new caaea in (ha paal ivoek, linin Camps Quarantined. I If. He;-Ity Called attention ve terda V to the fad thai the alatc board of health lataod an order a o time ago forbidding forbid-ding poopla to congregate in undertakera' parjora or at homca during FunerAla, rte-porta rte-porta ha i boen i ecolved by the atate hoaf'd of health of many violation a of thla order, "ii mual b underatoofd thai ?oo-itlc ?oo-itlc will be permuted to go Into audi 1 place! PlUy tlngly, lo rlew i!ie remnin-." |