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Show (lEIIPf II Sllllll, SArSJEATTY Ban to Be Lifted at Circum-tances Circum-tances Warrant, State Health Authority De-claret; De-claret; Condition Better SCHOOLS and other place of aHHemMage which have been closed witiee thi; start of the influenza epiIemie will not be opened 'Monday, and no df finite date for the reacindtng of tha closing order can be predicted. This was the positive assertion this morning of Dr. T. B. Ueatly, stats health commissioner. commis-sioner. Moreover. Inr. Beatty declared, the opening order will not be universal and will not apply to the stale at large, but the closing order will le rescinded only In those communities where the, eradicating of the epidemic makes It safe for the public health. The closing order hss not been unt-warssl. unt-warssl. sad ass spsllsd salt is localities where the disease appeared. "The statement In a morning newspaper news-paper of this date quoting me as having hav-ing said that the order closing echools und other places of public assemblage wilt be rescinded Id permit the opening open-ing Monday is untrue snd unauthor-I unauthor-I git:" Tr IvenTTy dTclafetT The ' iu;wr wan expucuiy lormea mat it 1 will be ImnosMlble to predict the exact dale on which the opening saffly can be permitted. Hut conditions condi-tions are Improving and I hope confidently con-fidently that early steps In that direction direc-tion may be considered." It will not be neceasa ry to await the entire disappearance of the dts- eae to permit the owning of the ! schools and other placa of sanem-blage. sanem-blage. Dr. Beatty ssnerted. but the epidemic character of the dlseaite muni be eradicated before the opening' will be safe. There may be Isolated cases of the dlHenee In the state for the next six months, hut ss soon as the epidemic form shall have gone Its course the danger of taking the disease dis-ease will be greatly minimised. lr. b. W. Tennant of HMkan seiit to Utah's aid by Hurgeon Oeneral Kunert Ittue of the public bealth service of the government, hag been forced to return home on account of Illness In his family. "I have received hundreds nf protests pro-tests agalnet the opening of the schools Monday." aald Kohert J. tfhld, manager man-ager nf tho Red Cross. "Mothers In- ' formed me that they would not end their children even If the sihool opened. I was more than glud to learn from Dr. fintty that the report was a deliberate faleehood. We htwe struggled strug-gled so hard and the tension has been so great that I really believe a lifting of the ban and a consequent retspne Ip the situation would cause a collapse of our present organisation." Mr. Hhlelds declared that before the achoola opened the large number of teachers who have worked at the Ited Cross hospital and In nursing private families through th disease should he i given a short vacation In order that they might recuperate before aesumlng i their, school duties. He said that the: ambulance waa busy until late lent night taking aerloualv ill patients to hospltala. Monday waa the worst day eei leiu-ed tit ihs Hert Truss mrHiTi since the epidemic atsrted. Mr. Hhlelds wsa of tho opinion that a large percentage of ths new influeitxa caaes were not being reported to the city board of health. A an example, of what may be accomplished by ; trained nurses In organising a fight against the disease In all towns. .Mr. rihlelds exhibited a letter from the, secretary of the Ked Croee at Moah commending the work of Mrs. Van t Kek on. This nurse held an open alr meeting, called for volunteers and then! was able to put a volunteer nuree in i every home afflicted by Influena in Moah. As reaull a critical situation was saved and the tlleeaeo haa been j checked in that town. T HefHirta re?lved St the cltv bWtrd i of heslth were to the effect th.w the situation was ateadlly Improving throughout the city. Klftv new cases j hsve been reported within the past I twenty-four hours snd ten deathe. J lr. Kamuel Paul of the c4y board of' health haa made survey of th eta- j Unties, which Is aa jet liu-omplete He has eatlmated that shout thirty cases out of evert- thousand prove fa-I tal. H la estimated that there hsve I been about '" raea nf Himnlsh in-j fluenia In Halt I-atae, but only alMtiit t 'hulf this numlier hw ve been repurtd |
