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Show ; . - - . - 1 ' i INFLUEFIZA BLIGHT IS PASSING Health Authorities Agree Situatioir- IGrowinjT"- Much Brighter in All Part of the State CONTROL of the influenza epidemic throughout the state, at large have been established, estab-lished, aceording to Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commission-' er. The epidemic la on the downward down-ward curve everywhere and In moat sections of the state the ep Id era to character of tha disease baa entirely disappeared. V Tha epidemic practically la under control In Halt Lake City, Vr. Beatty aaaerta, and If tha preaent condttlona continue with tha mortality not exceeding ex-ceeding two deaths per day, which In . all likelihood will be tha cane. It will be aafa to aay that tha epidemic haa auhetded. DISEASE CONTROLLED. "Tha epidemic haa been udder control con-trol throughout the atate for tha paat two or three weeks on an average." aver-age." lr. Heatty aiMerta. "Only In exceptional Inatanrwa, auc.1 In Bait Lake, Oaden, J'rovo and a few other. aa (here a flareup. resulting from tha peace celebratlona. This la due to the fact that the epidemic activlt . actually has subsided. "Wherever strict observance of the rules reqwtrtwtr the repwrt artt-W untlne of cases has been secured tha dlaease has been stamped out. "Jo Og den the people finally have become Impreseed with the serious- neas of the situation and are cooperating cooper-ating with the board of health anj other city authorities who, from the etftrt, have done everything possible with entirely inadequate foroea. In my opinion, Ogtlen will gain control of the epidemic within the next few days. DEATH RATE STABLE. . nr. Dainuei vj. I ui, viijr neo i n officer, say the death record from influenxa haa been practically t a level elnce November 2, Indicating, he pointed out, that the epidemic haa not been Increasing. - "And." continued Dr. Pul, "when an epidemic la at a atandatlll we can aaaume It Is running Its course and getting better. "Hlne Novemlier ! th death record he been about th same. Horn, day there were two deaths, then three or four, and one day there wer nine, but on other days there were none." Only twenty-one caaes of the malady mal-ady were reported to local city board of health official up until th noon hour. More than 100 case were reported re-ported yesterday. During the paat ten daya, the conditions locally have Improved Im-proved from bO to 76 per cent, sreord-tnc sreord-tnc to health report, and public official of-ficial look for a speedy lifting of th ban providing the condition continue I to ehow Improvement. MANY GET "SHOTS." More then twenty men appeared at th emergency hospital lotlay for Inoculation In-oculation against ths dlseaee, while mure than sixty put In an appearance appear-ance yesterday for the same treat- ment. The treatment is free. The leary serum I being used. Methods employed In Halt Lake to check the Influenza epidemic are th same methoda that hav proven or are proving auccessful In other cltlea. Judging by telegram received by th business men's Influenxa committee, according lo Kdward I'. Levy, manager man-ager of the Orpheum theatre and one of the leader In th business men movement to combat the disease. "W must continue the preaent Isolation Iso-lation and .quarantine measure, and (Continued on page II I weekft wenty-one cases of Influenza among Interned (fermans in the Third J I war prison at Ft. laougla have devel- I oed. The Influenza patients have , 'been Isolated and (placed tinder medl- -ctH ohei v:mre "by orders of Colonel tieoree I. Ryrnm. commanding offi- ' i cer if the w:r priion INFLUENZA BLIGHT M'ontlnued from page 1.) there shtHtid hi no -a t trm pt to block -! I the plans of lr. T. B. Neatly." Mr.' levy paid t inlay. MEASURES SUCCEED. 'Telegrams rcel ved from several cl taies by the Busmen Men's league 1 set forth that the plague la leingover-' leingover-' come by measures designed to pre- Ivent th gathering nf crowds, the quarantine ot thise with the di sense until they canont spread the tllscHSe. I snd other precautionary measures that sre indorsed In Salt Ijke. i "Since th perid of incubation fa! said to he only three days, it seems to me th:it the rigid following of thej antigroup order would brtng about the i end of the epidemic In a very short time." - ! The influenza mask ls advised In A resolution passed .by the Salt lake . Cixinty Medical society '.t night. The remdution was carried by a majority ma-jority vbie of thirty-five doctors and 1 as follows: "Resolved. That the Salt Lake Med), cal society advise th city health commissioner. com-missioner. Dr. Samuel O. Paul, to recommend rec-ommend to the mayor of Halt Lake e Immediate adoption of an ordinance ordi-nance compelling the universal wearing wear-ing of masks In the city. ! A resolution was also adopted to' urge the use of vaccine as a preventive. preven-tive. Th city board of health is prepared pre-pared to glv the vaccine free of I charge tn any who wish to be Immunized Im-munized against the epidemic. After escaping th disease for seven |