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Show SALT LAKE ALSIEI OVER SPUD OF IILOEH SALT LAKE, Oct IS Thursday 100 neAV cases of Spanish Influenza Avero reported to the city board of health. Influenza is interfering Avlth tho efficiency ef-ficiency of many lines of business and Industry in Salt Lake and Utah, according ac-cording to the state health authorities. Many employees groAV suddenly ill and it is impossible to renlaco them Asith- out Avarning. Deaths arc becoming more frequent throughout tho state, according to Dr. T. B. Bcatty. In order to bo in touch with the entire en-tire situation Dr. Boatty has requested that all health officials and doctors in the state report all deaths to the state board of health at once. All details should be forwarded regarding the progress of the epidemic. In Salt Lake the city board of health reported the situation growing Avorse. Many children are becoming afflicted Avith the disoase and mere babies aro falling victims of pneumonia, pneumon-ia, superinduced by the malady. Several Sev-eral deaths Avere reported by midaf-ternoon midaf-ternoon yesterday. Vera Pohl, 15 months of age, died at tho Judge Mercy Mer-cy hospital of the disease. The mother mo-ther could not find the father, Avho is a miner, and she Avas left to bear her loss alone in a local hotel. The father had visited the hospital the previous day, but could not be found last night The remaining child is seriously ill Avith the disease nt the Judge Mercy hospital. Woman and Niece Die Laura Louise Hickok, aged 33 years, of 55 West Crystal street, and her niece, Clair Jane Hickok, aged G months, of 2722 Edison street, died , i - i r o i i. (nn..n I yuoiuiiiity murmur ui optima" uiuutu- l.a. The child's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hickok, are seriously serious-ly 111 with the malady. Mrs. Laura Hickok is survived by her husband, Fred Hickok, and Iavo sons, Ralph, aged 6 years, and Bert, 4 months old. I The men are brothers. ! Frederick EdAvard Lorenz, aged 6 years, son of George A. and Vera Lorenz. Lor-enz. 969 South First West, died at a local hospital of influenza. Funeral arrangements Avill be announced later. la-ter. Noavs of the death of H. II. Thomas Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Thomas, 2555 Highland drive, of Influenza, Avas received yesterday from the post hospital, hos-pital, Wichita Falls, Texas. J. Wallace, a traveling salesman of Salt Lake, Avas reported to have died of influenza at St Anthony, Idaho, Thursday. James Hobbs, Jr., died atuhe Judge Mercy hospital yesterday of Spanish influenza. Robert J. Shields, manager of the Red Cross, stated last night that the demand for doctors and nurses AAas increasingly urgent. He said that Avonderful patriotism Avas being displayed dis-played by many Avomen in Salt Lake, avIio had left their homes during the night tb nurse the sick and ansAver emergency calls. About seventy-five 'teachers from the East and West high schools, the L. D. S. high school, Westminster college col-lege and the University of Utah reported re-ported at the West high school today. Dr. Beatty, Dr. Samuel G. Paul of the city board of health and Mr. Shields addressed them and called for volunteers volun-teers to nurse the sick. Half the number volunteered at once. Dr. Paul informed the teachers that there Avas little possibility of the schools being alloAved to open for six Aveeks to come. Aid In Nursing In many cases a teacher is assigned to accompany a trained nurse Avhere families arc afflicted, nnd, she does valiant service in cooking and providing provid-ing nourishment for the family and supplementing the Avork of the regular nurse, according to Mr. Shields. Judge Mercy hospital issued a call for lour more trained nurses last night. Mr. Shields Avas at a loss Avhere to secure them, but stated that the need must be supplied. About fifty cases are noAV in the hospital jand every member of the staff is kept extremely busy. Park 'City Quarantined Park City declared a strict quarantine quaran-tine last night in a desperate effort to prevent the disease from reaching the city- Park City Is said to be the only town of its size in the state Avhere Spanish influenza has not become prevalent The authorities announced last night that Salt Lake citizens Avho had urgent business in tho toAvn must first secure se-cure a permit to enter and then they avIH .have to pass an examination. That the voters of Salt Lake county may be subject to no risk of infection on election day, November 5, Thomas Homer, county clerk and recorder, yesterday yes-terday addressed a communication to Dr. T. B. Beatty, health commissioner of Utah, suggesting that Instead of holding the electron in the farIous precincts pre-cincts in private or public hduses, they be held in tents erected at the places designated for holding the elections, and that only one or tAvo persons besides be-sides two of the judges, be permitted to be in the tent at ono time, |