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Show Judge Mercy Hospital Set Aside - For Treatment of Spanish Grip; Urgent Call for Nurses Issued i . - 1 1 TO FIGHT tha spread of Spanish influenza in Salt Iaka City and county every graduate nurse, undergraduate, un-dergraduate, practical nurse and nurse's aid will be mobilized by the Salt Ieke county chapter of the American Amer-ican Red Cross and the Judga Mercy hospital will be converted Into a general gen-eral hospital for those afflicted with the malsdy, announcea Manager Robert Rob-ert .1. Shields of the local Ked Cross chapter. A letter giving Manager Shields authority au-thority to throw open the doors of tha Judge Mercy hospital for the housing of Influenza patients waa placed In hts hands by Bishop Joseph S. (Jlsss of the Salt I.ake Catholic dlooeae. Authority Au-thority was also given Manager Shields to make any changes or additions to the hospital which might ba needed to secure the best handling ' of the patients. Every nurse In tha county whether graduate, undergraduate, practical nurae or an aid la called upon by the Red Cross to register at once at Ked Cross headquarters to aid In the checking check-ing of the malady. Those who are ! a position to donate their services to the Ked Cross are asked to do ao, but those who are unable to do ao will receive re-ceive expenses and salary. "Immediate registration" Is what la wanted on the part of all the above classified nurses. The local Red Cross chapter Is cooperating co-operating with both the state and city health authorities In dealing with the 4nfluena.- ' The Judge Mercy hospital will, be placed in readiness and If needed can be thrown open on short notice. One ward at the county hospital haa been set aside for treatment of Influenza Influ-enza victims. Six cases now are being treated. None Is serious. FUNDS AVAILABLE. The local Red Cross chapter will use money appropriated by the war department de-partment for the hiring of the nurses and for otherwise dealing with the malady within the county. The nurses who register will be used throughout the county to handle the disease. The chapter secretary has the enrollment In charge. The hearty cooperation of Bishop Glass was promised the Red Cross In the letter received by Manager Shields. Influenza continues to hunt for Its victims in Salt Leke and other sections of the country and the local board of health reported more than two score cases this morning. These cases have all been reported since Saturday and while none of them are serious their ! victims are being treated for the new disease which is gripping the entire country. FIRST DEATH REPORTED. Funeral services for Kugene Roast, who died last Friday of Spanish Influenza, In-fluenza, will be held tomorrow afternoon after-noon at the S. r. Kvsns chapel. Interment In-terment will be In the Calvary cemetery. ceme-tery. Young Rossi came to Halt uake laat week from Storrs, Ctsh. with his parents to visit the state fair and It waa while here that he took 111. It la thought that his disease was contracted contract-ed at a rooming house on South West Temple atreet. where the youth stayed. This is the first death reported In Halt Lake. Young Rossi was but II years of sge. Henry 'Voss of Detroit, Mich..- waa taken 111 late Saturday afternoon with the "flu" and he Is now In the county hospital undergoing treatment. The larger part of the new cases reported re-ported to the health department are from downtown sections and the mat Jnrlty of them are reported among the transients. SPREAD LIKELY. Dr. Samuel G. Taul believes that the disease will spread rapidly unless the people of the city take heed to the warnings which hsve been sent broadcast. As one Instance, lr. Paul cltea the case of a girl who hsd every symptom of the disease Isat Saturday, and who, instead of 4ea-vtg her work and taking every precaution, waited until the cloaing hour and then returned re-turned home, after which ahe was con ft n ed to h er bed. "Whenever the first symptoms appear ap-pear one should take every precaution, precau-tion, and unless the people of the city fight the malady It Is aure to spread." said Ir. I'aul. "Whenever the first symptoms appear the person stricken should Immediately be isolated iso-lated and every care taken o that the spread may be checked, In this way the epidemic can be prevented' from spreading and those who do have the disease can be treated with ease." DENVER THEATRES CLOSED. Reports from Denver are to the effect that every theatre In the Colorado Colo-rado city has been closed on account of the epidemic. Ben Ketchum, local manager of the Wilkes theatre, who went to Denver to open toe Dunham theatre to the lovers of stock, wired Tom Wilkes to that effect. MIMES sue iii ClliISS QUIZ IF THERE were lovers of the sensational in Judge , Harold M. Stephens' court this morninr. they were disappointed, ' for al-! though Mrs. Susan Bransford Kmery Holmes was subjected to a stern cross examination, nothing of a lurid nature was brought out. Mrs. Holmes Is suing for a half Interest In-terest In the oo,K0 estate left by ' her adopted daughter, Mrs. Grace Kmery Bransford, to the hu abend. Wallace Branaford. Counsel for Mrs. Holmes M9 eought to show that Mrs. Branaford waa unduly un-duly Influenced In making a will that left nothing tn her foster mother. In connection with this contention, the allegation has been made that Grace Rmery as a child was subnormal menially. Attorney W. W. Ray of counsel for the h u !band cross examined Mra. Holmes today with a view to showing that Mrs. Holmes did not have aul-ficlent aul-ficlent Information as to her foster idHtighter's schooling to permit her to ' Judge as to Grace Kmery'a progress. The contention was made that Mra. Holmes seldom visited tne schools and seldom called for reporta. ' Mra. Holmes was questioned aa to whether the child hud not been placed j in school at the age of l years, when she was In poor health, and jexpecte'd to maintain the standards of j older children who had received better I prt pa ration. I Several letters were produced by the defense which Mra. Holmes ad-I ad-I mltted having written, s well as I books beldtiging to the testatrix. In-! In-! eluding a diary which Mrs, Holmes ! presented to her. 1 According to the evidence brought i out, Grace Kmery attended school at I I'ark City while Mrs. Holmes was at I the death bed of Mr. Kmery, her former for-mer husband. In Honolulu, although Mhe wltnesa was of the opinion thst I I be child hsd never gone to school there |
