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Show 'Open Inoculation Stations I to Stem Progress of flu'! i Further Steps to Combat Disease Taken in Salt Lake; 136 New Cases and Five Deaths Re- ' ported; Liquor Supplied Free to Sufferers. J ri,'Tiii.:i; determined measures to ! I end the influenza epidemic in Salt j Lake followed a meeting yesterday JJ at which the city board of health took the necessary steps or tho immediate establishment, In convenient locations about the city, of stations where all persrma desiring it can bo inoculated against tho disease without charge. Shortly u f tcrward announcement announce-ment was madtj that arrangements had been completed for the opening of such stations at t he following places: I'lniergeney hospital; fire station No. 2, -" North S.'cond West street; fire .station No. ;;, li;;0 Last Twenty-first South; fire n: at Ion No -1, TZ L sireel; fire station sta-tion No. f,, Last Ninth South, and flic station No. H. lOighth South and Post streets. Tho hours during whi.h citizens can secure inoculation are from It a. in. until -l:.":u p. in. One hundred and thirty-six new cases were reported yesterday, with five deaths. The list of those who sifecuinbed included : Conrad J. Millor, aged 8. years; Mary Ami Jorgenseu, 5; Kvu Hill, -tj ; Samuel C fender, 7, and Thomas Henry Reynold, :ilt. . Thought lossnes.i on the part of the j public is largely responsible for the con- j t inued -spreading of the malady, according accord-ing to 1 r. Samuel O. Paul, city health commissioner, who related an Incident coming under li s observation yesterday, wherein the father of a family Infected his wife and fiTe children. Instance Is Cited. "When any person develops this disease, dis-ease, ho or she should go home and iso-lato iso-lato himself or herself. Tho victim should go to bed and keep away from the rest of the family. He should not sleep in the same bed with anyone else. He should not permit tho other members of the household to come Into the same room, unless he wanta to wipe out his family. "I investigated a case today In which tho father went home Friday night with an attack of influenza. Jnstead of keeping keep-ing away from his wife and children, ho kissed tlieni and otherwise allowed them to come In contact with him. The result re-sult was that today his wife and five children the entire family developed the disease." Fifty-five requests for liquor to be used ' in the treatment of influenza patients were received yesterday at the emergency emer-gency hospital, which has been made the central distributing station for the city. In each case the liquor was issued by the head nurse, only on written request re-quest of the physician attending the sufferer. suf-ferer. In each case the request specified, speci-fied, in compliance with the instructions Issued to all physicians by the health office, the amount of the contraband to be allowed 1'or the treatment of that nar-ticular nar-ticular case. In most Instances the allowance al-lowance was a half pint, although in several sev-eral aggravated cases a full pint was prescribed. pre-scribed. Dr. Paul's Statement. , "With reference to the dispensing of the liquor. Dr. Paul last night made the following statement.: "Application for liquor can be made at the health office, or at the emergency emer-gency hospital. Not a drop will be issued is-sued excepting on the written order of the doctor having the case in charge. Doctors am not allowed to collect a fee for writing a Hquor prescription.- Anyone Any-one -applying with a proper prescription will be required to sign $s book showing the date and the amount received, together to-gether with name and address, "All aoDl lea t ions for liquor should be made beioxe 5 o'clock In the afternoon, although in an emergency it may be obtained ob-tained at a later hour. However, in order or-der to be certain of receiving it, all persons per-sons holding proper prescriptions should endeavor to have them filled before the hour indicated. Each applicant must bring a bottle or other vessel in . which to take it home, as we are not prepared to furnish bottles." Make Vain Application. Numerous attempts to obtain liquor were made yesterday by those who were not entitled to it.' according to emergency hospital attendants, who said that every , conceivable variety of excuse and al- I leged reason was offered by applicants 1 'who could produce no prescription and I who. presumably. mer ely wanted a drink. All such were told that an unmistakable un-mistakable case of "flu" was a prerequisite pre-requisite to the desired bracer. More than 100 persons were Inoculated against influenza at the emergency hospital hos-pital yesterday, among them being many business men and prominent women of the city. The Leary and Rosenau serums are now being given In conjunction, so that the patient receives, right from the starting of treatment, protection against both the influenza and pneu- In the past thirty-six hours there have been thirty-three new cases of influenza admitted to the post Isolation hospital at Fort Douglas, most of them coming from the student army training camp at the Fniversity of Utah. Of this number, twenty-eight were admitted during Friday Fri-day and Friday night. Yesterday five new cases were admitted, three being from the university and two from the post. Cases at Post Hospital. There are now more than 130 cases of influenza in the post hospital, practically all of them being from the student anny training corps at the university. Yesterday seven new cases of pneumonia pneu-monia developed among the patients in the isolation ward. and. while there were no deaths for the day, several of the pneumonia patients were in rather serious seri-ous condition. In each instance the parents par-ents were notified at once. One more death occurred at the war prison camp Isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. Jt ne iniru vieiom or the influe'nza at the prison camp is P.oko Zlelko, an Austrian enemy alien, who was one of the twenty prisoners to develop the disease last Sunday. Zlelko will be : buried at the post cemetery this morning tit 11 o'clock. No new c.-'ses of the influenza developed In the Internment camp yesterday. There have been a total of twenty-three cases among tic interned prisoners and three deaths since the epidemic developed in Iho camp. Red Cross Busy. The Red Cross was called upon yesterday yester-day to furnish six nurses to tuke care of stricken persons in Salt Lfiko. A call also came from I.ev. istou. Idaho, but could not be considered. The local Red Cross j management has ceased attempts to supply sup-ply nurse help for outside places. Reports received yesterday by tho stale board of health from points lu the state outside of Malt fiKe were very gratifying. Conditions at Bingham, Eureka, Brigham City and Logan were said to be practically practical-ly back to normal. Provo registered but one death from The scourge, that of Christian Hanson. venrs old. Hober City listed the dath of K-'v Mur-dock. Mur-dock. 3?. and Cove Fort reported th it t.uto Kessler, L'L had succumbed to th ail-j ail-j meet. Both these deaths occurred last j : Thursday. j t 'gd'-n is more than holding ber own in th'' f:cht against the epidemic, accord- j inir to if poets from that ciry y .-st e lay. j but fort -one new easrs and one noaM ; 'being registered a th" day's !ol!. i Deaths Elsewhere. j l.'ivliin lisl-d th--'!eah nf the inm'it ! .v.iigii(.-r of .Mrs. Hubert l.ayton. while! , i larfb M reported t0 deaths. Th victims vic-tims of the riiainov at Carfrelo' wore .fesc 1 'W t'hj.m Min-ou. rars eld. ami his v,ifr. T.urllne I,IHn Minion, who died within , five. hours of raii other. I Sheriff Ceorgo Dodda of Pangulteh, who arrived in Sail T.ake yesterday from that I pki'-e with a prisoner, was found to be suffering from trie seourgo upon bis nr- I rival her-e. He was removed to the Ij. j I. S. hospital. whilR the pnaoner was 1 lodged in the county jail. j The weekly report, of the clly board of j healt li, issue fi yesterday, showed a total nf 7 sr. capes of ini'lueriza in tho city during dur-ing the week. |