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Show IPIRUENZA CAUSES. TWO DEATHS, I AND TWENTY NEW CASES ARE REPORTED DURING MORNING Inspector George Shorten of the public pub-lic health department, reports that up to noon today, twenty new cases of rtflu" were telephoned to the office by local physicians. It is to be understood under-stood that these cases Include all kinds of colds, bad colds, grippe, and that by no moans all of them are Spanish influenza. One death from Spanish influenza was reported Thursday, said Mr. Shorten, Shor-ten, the deceased being George Thonn, 30 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Thenn of 843 Twenty-eighth street. The funeral will bo conducted at 4 p. m. Saturday under the regulations of tho public health department and will be carried out by members of the public pub-lic health staff. Mrs. Ellen Lenora Webber, aged 37, and a well known Ogden woman, passed away this morning at 9:15 o'clock at the family residence, 2775 Williams avenue, after a few days' illness ill-ness of pneumonia, caused by an attack at-tack of Spanish Influenza. Mrs. Webber Web-ber was born in Ogden, January 12, 1881, the daughter of Edward and Mary E. Tracy Irwin and she is survived sur-vived by her mother and husband, Earl M. Webber, a Southern Pacific conductor, one son, Irwin Lowe, and the following brothers and sisters sur-viyc: sur-viyc: Charles, Walter, Albert, Frank, Ray and Mrs. Lillian Stratford. The body was taken to the Larkin chapel to be prepared for burial and funeral services to be held Monday at 2 p. m. at the chapel, Bishop T." B. Wheelwright Wheel-wright officiating. Interment Ogden city cemetery. The body will be p'laccd in a metallic casket and there will bo no danger of infection. What to Do. Mr. Shorten wishes to give publicity public-ity to the following measures of safety:- Cover the nose and mouth with a handkerchief when sneezing or coughing. cough-ing. , , Avoid crowds, and if you see a person per-son whom you - suspect of having a coldg!ve him a wide berth. . . Police will stop spitting and discharges dis-charges from the nose on the street, and arrest offenders where necessary. Tramway company must keep nil rvvinodws of cars open. Burning of leaves absolutely forbidden. forbid-den. Smoke irritates the throat and nose, making them susceptible to influenza in-fluenza germs. The limitations of the disease depend de-pend on the persons afflicted to safeguard safe-guard others. If you feel any symptoms symp-toms of the Influenza remain at home. Do not appear -at work and spread the germ to your fellow employes. If you are confined to your home with influenza, insist that the person who waits on you wear a gauze mask. Do not expose other members of your family to tho disease. Questions Asked. A city physician, who reports that heis attending eighty cases of "flu," some of them serious, submits the following fol-lowing questions to the readers of the Standard: What was the request of President Wilson with regard to Spanish influenza? influ-enza? What steps have been taken at cantonments can-tonments to attempt to check the spread of influenza? Have tho majority of states, where tho epidemic is marked, closed public gathering places? If our border states have closed public pub-lic gathering places, what is the duty of Utah? In the past, what have been the steps adopted to check an epidemic of contagious diseases? Aro we not short of help in our factories? fac-tories? If so is there not danger of an epidemic disabling our factories? If our agricultural and manufacturing manufactur-ing concerns all over the United States are disabled, are we not playing into Germany's, hands if we do not attempt at-tempt to chock the. spread of this contagious con-tagious disease? Ask yourself these questions and then inquire Into the wisdom of your, impulso to object to Inconvenient health restrictions. j |