Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-11-20 | Page 8 | Epidemic Grows; Ogden Anxious

7 EPIDEMIC GROWS CROWS OGDEN ANXIOUS I New Ordinance May J ConI- ConI p pel l Citizens to V Wear car Gauze Masks l Herald S Ogden Nov Xo 13 Spanish 11 Spanish Influenza tho the virulent typo of or tho the disease ac accordIng according according ac- ac cording to one local physician continues con con- to Increase In Ip O Ogden den the efforts o of the tho board ward of health six Ninety new nc cases Were announced today tOllay by local physicians with one not hot reporting Health officials arc awaiting await awall- In ing hii Ills his report with considerable interest in- in terest as ns he ho has hOH ha an exceptionally lal largo large o practice Ho lie was as out of the city today The report of or ono Ph physician made carl early this thus morning brought the Humber Hum num ber o of cases up to A movement mO haa has been started among among- physicians and anI business men or ot O Ogden to request the tho city commission commission- era erg to 0 pass an making it obligatory aton for fo or nil all 4 01 appearing on tho the streets alII such and tu In stores o of of- of Ices flees to wear gauze gau masks I 8 Those rhose he- he hind th project ct point out that In on the tho Pacific P coast I where all persons required to wear ear masl masks the his IlIs- ease was controlled more rapidly I In thia than Tho dl caso i Is rapidly becoming n. n I menace to the tho ho city a according officials and this the death rate is heavier hea than was expected AU All new hew cases arc promptly quarantined anti and the quarantine quarantine tine js Is being strictly enforced deaths from rein tl the tho 0 were reported i bunday 1 yesterday e and five more today H Health offie officials alK said Raid today that at t the present ent rate the death roll roil b by th the end of or month will bo be considerably larger In ln r. r when cl eigi ht did of o tho the disease This compares miH with two forty deaths In one ono heaviest ft year ear which Ich showed shaved tho the death ileath rate In Ogden Ogdon in years ber before ru the 1 present rc started I