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Show QUARANTINE ORDER IS NO-T-ENFORGED-HERE EPIDEMIC oir -IKE- Salt Lake Report Mort Cases Than on Any Previous Day of Week , Improvement in State A LARGE ship merit of Rose-nau Rose-nau vaccine, prepared in th t'mttvl HtatfMi naval laboratories at Seattle. a received today hy the atate board of health, Tha consignment waa Immediately turned over to Ir. L. U natnee, atate bacteriologist, for eyamlnatlon. If II Is found to be In good condition Pn Beatty say a it will be Issued for public Inoculation In about four ds. it II planned to send tha vaccina Into All' parte of tha atate where the epidemic of lnfluensa, haa become prevalent. H0 -O Nwf-ril OCTtON. -( Despite tha order of the sts'te board of health that all lnfluensa patients muat be qiiarant.ned and flags erertetl on InfecttH hnusew. Ir. fctamuel Ci. i'aul, city health ennimluionr, at uteri todny that the quarantine ordr on Influrnsa la not being enforced In Halt Iake t'iiv, I "l have received no Instruct lone from the state board of health to quaraniltit Influena caaea and do not officially know of any order to do bo." aad lr. Paul. ! read In the p tcr that v(h , sn order had been Issued taut so far f have "Tecel ved itO official m t 1 1 IVjot t Ion t ' quarantine lnfluensa caaea. Nrhhrr have I been Inelructed to place ejuar-aatlno ejuar-aatlno flaga on houees where the d.S eaao Is prevalent." 5 . t . NOT IN SYMPATHY. .1 Dr. Paul anted that he could not operate hla department on what he reads In the newepapera, nor receive hla 'Inatruetlona from that source. He aald ho believed the quarantining of Influenza caaea would have little or no effect on the altuatlon and would work a great hardahlp on many elti- aena. Halt Lake county hesltn district No. 1 today reported thirty-nine new csaee to the state board of health. Prove reported twelve additional aees. Brig-ham Brig-ham City four; lke Fork. Duchesne county, twenty-eight, and West Weaver Wea-ver a re a families with from two to . six rasea In each- Logan now haa total of sixty-six rases of Influenza. ' LACK OF CAR! FATAL. Dr. r . C. Myers of HpoHsFte. who waa aent here by the I'nlted Htatea u hltc healt h service, returned toda v from Portage, where he was sent by Dr. Reatty Irr answer to an urgent rati for help. Dr. Myre stated that Portage presented a typical example of a town where proper precautions agsinat the malady had not been taken. He reported that three persons had died In the town In one week. E0OINO SHIPPED. The flrstlpment of beds and bed-, dins; froni Hialaa, under the so-thority so-thority r -anted the elxte . hoard o 'ha war depart ment. Ui uoldhill, i y- .tut call for - taw ' .aaaBBKS9Bsaa EPIDEMIC ON (Continued from page I ) ! help, declaring that nurses and doe-tor doe-tor ar Imperative if th town I I to be saved from a greacar death toll. Dr. J. M. Blgelow, th only physician there. I reported ssrlou.ly 111 with influenza. in-fluenza. Dr. M. i. Mackfartand of Cedar City 1 alas reported III. Dr. I A. N. Leonard of Bait Lk haa been ! assigned to the latter plae. I Soldier Hummlt and Thistl are r-J r-J ported tn a serious condition, with no I available doctor or nuraaa. An effort ef-fort 1 bains mad today to (end aid to thsen. CASES INCREASE. I Hopes for permanent abatement In I the epidemic of Spanish Influenaa were ' put to rout yeslerday when report of new eases and death allowed a marked Increase over th number reported on any previous day thia week. A total of 1 1 new ranee and fourteen i deaths occurred In (Salt Lke City alone I yeaterday aa compared with aeventy-, aeventy-, two canes and ten deaths tha previous day. Health authoritlea. howeeer. at- tribute thia audden Inereaae to tha ne-, ne-, llicenoe of doctor In reportlnc eaaea I promptly. PNCYMONIA TAKES MANY. ! Dr. Kamual O. Paul, rlty health com-! com-! miaaloner, aaid that the large number j of dealha were moat ly due to pneu-i pneu-i monla developing from caaea previoua- ly reMrted. Me espreaaed the opinion ! that the epidemic la on tha decline In ! the eity and that th criala haa paaaed. i He aaya there are not nearly so many ! caaea belnc admitted to the hoepltale , and that the rails for a eat stance have materially fallen off the last two days. Ha aaya many of the new ca aea are I murh lijrhter than ihoae developed In. the early atapea of the aomirir PROMPT REPORT URGED, Doc tor a. nuraaa and patienU have been asked to .. report new caaea promptly to the board of health ao that an accurate check may be kept on the proa-rees of the ma lady. Oerden haa reported thirty-aim additional addi-tional caaea and four more deatha Other Oth-er towna of the atata continue to aend In reporta of more caaea. but most of them Indicate a falllnv off t tba death rale. . Health authoritlea and Rod Croat officials of-ficials request that efforta on the part of the public to combat the dlaeaaa ba not retarded on account of enoouraajlna; reporta. They explain that theae reporta re-porta may ba irood today- and tomorrow tomor-row abow a decided chance for tha worae. |