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Show -. f EMEK Uif EEI1S FLO mill Everybody Urged to WearN . GauzeMasks in Public y . . ' . 1 'X ' ' ' Pitiful Condition Revealed as Reports of New Cases Pour Into Headquarters ofHealth"Boards INSPIRED to active patriotic service by the frenzied cries from all parts of the state for nurses, virtually every teacher from the East and West tiigh schools, the L. D. S., Westminster College Col-lege and the University nf t ttah torl.y plMgl tKmlM . a unit In fmht th. ir-rr irf Sprniih influenza. The "niarms and "masters" are meeting this afternoon at the West Highr school, where they were to organize as an emergency emer-gency arfnof nurses. There is no prospect in sight for the immediate imme-diate opening of schools and the teachers came forward loyally and patriotically at the call of the Red Cross. They will be sent into homes where families are prostrate and some will take up their humanitarian work in stricken towns of the state. s The first public use of gauze masks as a preventive from influenza influ-enza infection came today with announcement to the Red Cross from the Z. C. M. I. that from now until the end of the epidemic all clerks employed in the big store will wear the masks while on duty. The action is taken as a precautionary safeguard for the nnhlic anil the pmnlnvM. - Three hundred gauze masks were ordered today from the local Red Cross for the McDonald Chocolate company. The management will request employes to wear the masks while on duty until the epidemic has abated. An appeal to the public to wear j masks , while In the downtown districts dis-tricts or mingling with other persons wss made today by RoWrt J. Shields, manager of the loeat branch of the V Red Cross. Mr. Shields also strongly "lgges women to wear chiffon veils until un-til the epidemic Is over. At the request re-quest of the state board of health an Inexpensive form of gause mask was placed on sale this morning by the Red Cross In all the local department stores and drug stores And at the Red Cross shop. . NURSE IS ILL. A report reached Salt Lake today that Miss Myrtle Swalnton, who was sent from here to act as supervisor of th Ogden emergency lnfluensa hospital, hos-pital, had been stricken In service with y the malady. She Is reported quite ill at the Ie hospital. Miss Rae E. Woodcock of Salt Iake has been detailed by the Red Cross to take charge of the kitchen at the emergency hospital In Ogden In answer to an urgentoippeal from the Junction City officials. MORE NEW CA8ES. Reports of new cases continue to pour Into the city and state health department de-partment 105 new cases being reported report-ed since yesterday morning in the city alone.Twenty new cases were reported re-ported m the city up to noon today and five additional deaths. - This makis a total of eleven deaths , In two days. Nineteen patients were admitted to the post hospital yesterday yester-day and two deaths were reported. Another An-other death occurred this morning at Judge-Mercy hospital. BABY DEAD AT HOME. . One report received by Rid Cross officials was from tho home of Ray O. Rlckok, 2720 Kdlson street. Here It waa reported an Infant baby had died from the disease and the father, mother and 7-year-old son are prostrate pros-trate with the same affliction. As a means of expanding hi powers of authority jiuring the epidemic Pr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner, commis-sioner, has been tendered tho position of acting assistant surgeon general by Surgeon General Rupert Blue, hea of Vthe I'nlted States-public health service ""at Washington. Dr. Beatty wired his acceptanco of : the position find will now wage his j campaign against the further spread j (Continued Tn page 8 - - i EVERYBODY URGED Continued from page 1.) t of the malady aa a sovernment m- thorlty. POST IS ISOLATED. Ft. DourIa haa been placed under absolute quarantine for the period of. the epidemic. No persons will be permitted per-mitted on the reservation without special spe-cial permits from the poet commandant. command-ant. Hubert O. Buah. 25 years old, of Bait Lake and Roy P. Nelson, 21 years old, of Randolph, t'tah. died yesterday at the post hospital at Ft. DouRias Both were memlnera of the student officers' tratnfns; corps and were) suddenly etrtrken with Influensa. Mrs. Albert t1la. 21 Harmony p'&ro, die at Judae JVI ere y hospital. Juhn U'hitthaua, 29 years old, died at his residence, 1& West Fourth Kouth street. Caleb W. Ferr', 2 years old, 104 Kaat Kixhth Mouth street, died at his home. 41. K. Bonn, la years old, died at a local hospital. The regular weekly luncheon of the Klwanls club haa ben postponed oo account of the quarantine order. 9i TOWNS AFFECTEO. At the offices of the state board It waa learned this mornlnic that ninety-five ninety-five Incorporated towns, or tit her communities, com-munities, hud reported the disease. Alphabetically arranced, they are: American Funk. Arthur, Hear River. Fintcham. IllufMale. Bothwell, Bountiful. Bounti-ful. Br i ir nam Castle Oate, Cedar City. Orel v I lie. fTlarkston. Coalville. Cornish. Cor-nish. Iteim. Ievtls 81ide, Kcho. lewey-vitle. lewey-vitle. Kphiaim. Kureka. FrirminaLon. Kern m. Ki'Min. Oarfleld. (Jlenwood. fHiBhen, . Gunnison. Hnlllday, Heber, Helper. HrnWer, Hinckley. HoneyvtUe, lloytaville, Kama. Kayavllle, Kinvs- t(n. lark, Ihl, leaminirton, fjiyton. i levan. Leoa, Iaan. Lucin. Xlaarnm, Mayfield. Midvale. Mllford, Moah. Mo I denu, Jdontj-llo, Mohrland. Morajan, 1 Moroni. Mt. I'learant, Murray, Newton, , h k CHy. Onria. Ogden. Ophlr. A range -vlii. f'ark City. Pftraaroonah, Pa rowan. Payaon. PUarant lew. Pleaaant frove, Portervllle. Price, Prom, Randolph. Richfield. Rlvertnn. River Heights. Ha-(em. Ha-(em. Halt I Jake City. Rcipto. Hpr1n 'lty. Silver tty, Hyracuse, Htorra, i Thatcher. Tooele. Tremonton, Trenton, Venire. Vernnl. Weill net nn, Wellsville, Wendovf r. Willard and Wood side. |