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Show ill DEATHS USED W ILUEH l!i SILT LIE SALT LAKE, Oct. 21 Little change Bfr -was noted In the Spanish Influenza Eltuatlon In Salt Lake yesterday. Ac-cording Ac-cording to reports received by the city ' board ot health, there seemed to bo a slight Increase In the number of pneumonia pneu-monia cases which followed Influenza. FJfty- three new cases were reported yesterday. Eight deaths were reported yoHter- day In Salt Lake na a result of the epidemic. Frances Genevieve Hicock, 29 years of age, 2722 Edison street, died of influenza, Claro Jane Hicock, her daughter, died Thursday. Eleanor Myrtle Nelson, 18 years of age, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Nelson, 612 South Seventh East street, died last night. Donna Perry, 2 1-2 years of age, daughter of Mrs W. Perry, 204 East Eighth South street, also died yesterday. According to the city board of health report, her father, K. W. Perry, died of the disease Friday. Mrs. Ida Lundine Anderson, 32 years of age, wife of M. Anderson, 53 Girard avenue, died yesterday afternoon. Joseph Jo-seph Barrett, 30 years of age, 103, North Second West street, died at a local hospital. Ralph Lawhorn of Pro-vo, Pro-vo, 26 years of age, died at the Red Cross emergency hospital. Alfred Bonier, 27 years of age. 2337 Park street, died at a local hospital yesterday yester-day morning. Ho is survived by his fa .widow and three children. f l The ninth death reported for "the mMmmmmmmmmmm twentv-four hours was that of David j McFail, GG2 East Seventh South street. He had been ill a week with the influenza. in-fluenza. He was 26 yeas old and came here recently from Park City. Demand For Masks In spite of a general emergency call which was sent out by tho Red Cross to all Its workers, the call for gauze masks coud not be mot. Robert J. Shields, manager, then Issued instructions instruc-tions for the manufacture of tho masks in the homes and urged all who found immediate need of them to manufacture manufac-ture their own. "Take a piece of gauze eighteen by twenty-four inches," inch-es," said Mr. Shields, "fold it so that It is eight thicknesses and six b,y eight inches in size. Then put a few black stitches on one side to indicate, the front. Boil the mask thirty minutes to sterllizo it. Atta&i a strip of adhesive ad-hesive tape or sew on strips of cloth to tie it in place. Wash tho hands thoroughly before touching the mask after it has been sterilized. Chango the mask every two hours if attending an influenza patient. Do not turn the mask under any circumstances. "The epidemic has been largely" confined con-fined to the west side of Salt Lake in the past, but yesterday revealed that tho east side of town was being visited vis-ited by the malady. Forty-eight cases doveloped in Lark within twenty-four hours as a igbuR of the town's disobeying dis-obeying the order of the state board of health to close all theatres and ban all assemblies. Lark sent in 'an urgent ur-gent call for nurses and wc succeeded in obtaining one. "Selta reported conditions to be ex-tremoly ex-tremoly bad in that town and asked for nurses. Wc could not find one to send, Two families in Oakley wore reported to be helpless, with no one to attend them. We could not send nurses and referred them to Park City. The Singer Sewing Machine company genorously contributed soveral machines ma-chines for use In making ' masks at Rcd,Cross headquarters lu Salt Lake." |