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Show EPIDEMIC IS DEFINITELY OipilllE - New Outbreak Unlikely If Proper Precautions Are Taken; Other Part, of j - State Are Now Suffering CONTINUED decrease in the Spanish influenza epidemic 1 was noted todayln reports-t& " reived from several parts of the ? state. Only the relaxing of precautionary pre-cautionary measures on ths part of th public will precipitate a relapse now. It la admitted by health of-1 of-1 flrlaJs. However, there are attlt several towns of tha state In a serious predicament pre-dicament and every effort la "being I made to send them aid. I THREE DIE AT SEQO. A report was mad .nrlav tn the state board of health that three more deaths have occurred at Hero, and the plant of the American Fuel company com-pany at that place haa been ordered closed ae a result of the epldemle. i Dr. H. Klnch of Coalville has been sent to Sego to assist In quelling ; the plague. Follow in a report made to the state board-of health that an unidentified, fireek. who was confined In the emergency emer-gency hospital at Magna with the Influenza, In-fluenza, had escaped to Salt Lake on a freight train, a search waa Instituted Insti-tuted this morning by local officers at , the request of the wiealth authorities. It fs feared the man may cause the malady to break out anew and spread the deadly germs into new sections of the city. It was stated he will be punished for violating the state quarantine quar-antine order In the event he is captured. cap-tured. 200 CASES AT EUREKA. The most distressing report of the day was received from Eureka, where I'OO new cases have suddenly developed and twelve deaths have occurred. The ailuatlon there la said to be extremely serious and urgent calls for doctors and nurses have been made to Halt Lake, following the report from Eureka, 1T. T. B. HeattyrTfTate health commissioner, commis-sioner, sent Kev. W. W. Fleetwood, as-i fintant manager of the local Red Cross, there today with Instructions to establish es-tablish an emergency hospital and basin ba-sin the recruiting of nurses. STEADY CALL FOR NURSES. Call for nurses and doctors were also received from Rexburg. Ida.. Bountiful and Morgan, Utah. Thlrty-ve Thlrty-ve nurse were recruited at the local -seWd Cross yesterday and distributed 1 . throuerhout the city and state. Robert J. shields, manager of the Red Cross, states that many local department de-partment store managers have loaned several of their clerks to the Red Cross for duty as nurses. The stores. It Is aatd, are retaining them on the payroll while they are aiding in relieving the suffering. SIX DEATHS HERE. Fix death occurred In Fait lake yesterday from tnfluenxa, but only forty-five new cases developed, ac-wording ac-wording to the report of the" city1 board of health. Dr. R. W, Tennant who was sent here to sid In combating the epidemic by the United States public health service, haa become exhausted from the stress of overwork, according to Ir. Beatty. He has broken down In the strain of Incessant work and loss f sleep during his stay In Utah. Bountiful reports that since the rpidemic started there have been 10 cases and two deaths there. Redman today reported four new cases; Joseph 'wo and Stockton nine. |