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Show ' Dr. Woods Hutchinson urges everyone every-one to wear a mask as a prevention of disease. " California has accomplished accom-plished good results by the use of a mask. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, lecturer on health subjects, who passed through Salt Lake on his way to the Pacific coast several weeks ago, arrived in the city Monday night en route east. He remained over night "The mask Is, In my opinion, the most effective weapon against Influenza," Influ-enza," said Dr. Hutchinson, "as well as against several other diseases. As a result of the wearing of masks la San Francisco and Los Angeles the development of new cases dropped in five days from something like 2000 cases to 300 cases a day. The death rate fell proportionately. "Incidentally, the uso of masks In fighting influenza had a rather un- looked-for, but pleasing result, when I it was discovered that other diseases disappeared quickly after masks came Into general use. , Thus, San Francisco had whooping cough, measles and chlckenpox epidemics along with the influenza epidemic, and much to the surprise of many medical men, the rate at which new cases of these maladies developed, fell just as fast as the influenza rate fell when the wearing of masks was made compulsory." com-pulsory." Dr. Hutchinson said that his visit to Salt Lake at this time had no significance, and that he had merely stopped off to visit with Professor George A. Eaton, Dr. E. A Smith and Dr. .Samuel G. Paul, all of whom have been his close friends for a. number of years. Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state boerd of hfalth said that conditions in the state outside of the city remained about the same as the preceding day, excepting that the ban had been lifted from Kamas, Woodslde, Marion, Francis and Peoa, in Summit County, where no new cases had been discovered discov-ered for a week or more. Despite the increase in the number of deatns reported re-ported yesterday, he was optimistic as to the outlook. "The increased number of deaths," said the state health ccnimltHioter, "merely indicates thpt some of those who contracted the disease as a re- etilt ft 1 1 a e fM I a 1 1 AO tnlohtxit it a dying. I do not look for any great number of new cases to develop in the next few days if the public will continue to exercise the needful precautions, pre-cautions, and if the doctors will pay more attention to reporting new cases when they occur, rather than a week or ten diys later. If nacessary, we will get after some of them who havo been lax in making their reports." |