Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-25 | Page 12 | Forty-Four Cases of Influenza in 24 Hours

FOHTY-FDUR CSSES OF INFLUENZA li 24 HOURS Indications are that the epidemic of Spanish iniluenza stands in about the same position as yesterday, said Inspector In-spector George Shorten of the City Health department. Although at 2 p. m. this afternoon not all the doctors of the city had been able to make tbtilr report for the day. the number of cases reported was forty-four and this Includes In-cludes all stages of bad colds as well as direct cases of influenza, said Mr. Shorten, nnd the public will do well to hoed the warnings that have been published in the local press every day since the epidemic descended on the city. The city has received a helpful visitor in tho person of Dr. F. C. Myers who comes on government service and lias been ordered to the city of Ogden by tho state department of public health and it is hoped that, with his valuaWe co-operation and the splendid service of the local physicians and nursing staffs, that a good report of daily decrease in the number of cases will ensue, said Mr.. Shorten. During, the last twenty-four hours there have been reported to the department de-partment four deaths of Mrs. Jackson, 452 Sixteenth street; Mrs. Beulah Harrison Har-rison Thomas of tho staff of the Union depot; Florence Klomp, a little child of 63S Twenty -fourth street and Amy Bernlce Mesick. The suggestion has been made to the Standard that, in giving totals of influenza in-fluenza cases, only the seriously ill should be listed, as, when colds are included. in-cluded. oo