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Show BREAD INFLUENZA !. STILL GRIPS UTAH One Hundred and Eleven New Cases Reported to City Board. OGDEN IS HIT HARD Dr. Beatty Repeats His Caution to Residents Exposed Ex-posed to Disease. One hundred and eleven new cases ol Spanish influenza were reported to the city board of health yesterday. Si. deaths were reported as a result of the epidemic as follows: Jeanette Marshall, Mar-shall, 74 years of age, local hospital; Ellen Sehgrman, local hospital: Dolly Williamson, Wil-liamson, local hospital: Alexander Williamson, William-son, local hospital; Gilbert Haws, 215 West Fifth South street; Jennie Smith Stoddard. -6, 764 Second East street. Dr. R. W. Timment arrived from Spokane Spo-kane yesterday and reported to IV. Beatty, Beat-ty, acting under orders trom the surgeon general. Dr. Beauty at once sent him to Heher, where the Influenza situation is reported to be grave. The adjutant general, gen-eral, P, C. Harris, yesterday notified Dr. Beatty in a telegram from Washington that he was now authorized to draw upon the post for necessary supplies in combating com-bating the epidemic in Utah. Ophir is j eported to have conquered the epidemic and the han has been lifteo on public assemblies and the schools have been opened. Moab will be granted permission per-mission to open the schools if the disease . does not reappear 'there. "The duration of the influenza situa- tion in Utah and Salt Lake wilt depend de-pend on the observance of precautionary methods on the part of every citizen," was the announcement of Dr. T. B. Beatty Beat-ty of the state board of health last night. "The situation is improving in certain towns of the state. There is no state in the union in which the precautions are being more strictly or effectively ob-berved ob-berved than in Utah." Ogden Is Hit Hard. 'Dean W. W. Fleetwood of St. Mark's cathedral, received an order from Surgeon Sur-geon General Rupert Blue at Washington, appointing him representative of the Red Cross division yesterday to work under un-der the direction of Dr. Beatty in the present emergency. Ogden sent in a report to Dr. Beatty that the total number of cases in that city was now 22S9 and that forty-iih.e deaths had occurred. Three more deaths were later reported from Ogden. as follows: fol-lows: John Brett. 29 years of age; Mrs. Deila Hodson: Heber Allred, 15 years of age. son of Mr. and Mrs: Melvin Allred. 302 Thirty-second street. Ogdon is apparently suffering more severely se-verely from the epidemic than Salt Lake, according to health officials, and it has had more deaths in comparison to the number of its population. Conditions are reported to be very grave in Pleasant Grove, and a doctor died of the disease there yesterday. No nurse could he obtained ob-tained to send to Clearfield, where it was reported that the most desperate case. was a family of seven, all stricken with the I disease. In Holliday it was reported to the Red Cross that the mother of six children had died of influenza, leaving the children chil-dren orphans, as the father had died some time before. Two deaths from influenza-pneumonia were reported from the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. James Silvc, 0 company. Seventieth engineers, at Fort Douglas, and Glen N. Buckner, F company. com-pany. Eighth infantry, died during Men-day Men-day night. Six Deaths at Post. Buckner was taken irom a train Sunday suffering from th infection, and was in the pneumonia stige of the disease when I taken to the local hospital. These two make a total of six deaths from the disease that have occurred at the post since the influenza epidemic struck thn military organizations here. Private Silve of the engineers is the first member of any of the organizations at the post to die from the disease. The other five fatal cases came from organizations organi-zations outside of the post. A total of twenty-six new cases of influenza in-fluenza were admitted to the post hos- I Pital yesterday. Of this number seven were from the outside and nineteen rrom 1 he commands at the post. A new detachment of seventy-five hos- pital corps men arrived at the post yesterday yes-terday morning for duty with the army general hospital. These men were sent here from Fcrt Riley. Kan., whence came the first detachment of corps men which arrived a short time ago. This is only the second detachment of corps men and more ore expected to arrive later on. price reported last night ihat seven deaths had occurred in that town since tpe epidemic started and that seventy ases of Influenza had been discovered. New workers are put under a four-day quarantine, before they are allowed to enter en-ter the mines, In orcter to discover whehr 'hey are suffering from Influenza and to protect the other worker?. Judge George Christensen has adjourned court until December De-cember 2. The condition of Police Captain Henry C. Taggart, who has been ill for several days with Spanish influenza, last night became so critical that he was hastily removed to the L. D. S. hospital. |