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Show TEACHERS- Food, Prepared in Kitchens Kit-chens of School, Will Be Carried to Homes of Helpless Flu Sick HOT food is to bo provided in every section of Salt Lskt fp families helpless from Spanish influenza. The food will be prepared pre-pared in the dorneKtic seirnrs ' klechens of the city schools and car ried to the stricken home by volunteer volun-teer pupil. IMana for this erqergrpcy service , were perfected today "at a meeting of ' all domestic science teachers of the city school at lied Cross headquarters In the Amelia palace. The service Is expected to be of tremendous value, as In nearly every district of the city there are families prostrated and unable to help them selves or procure nurses. PITIFUL REPORTS MADS. Pitiful reports are pouring1 Into health headquarters almost hourly, telling of the helpless plight of fam- Hies where every member is confined to berf with the disease. Nurses are no( available to send to their aid and their suffering Is augmented by their utter helplessness. ttlnce all the schools In. the city sre cloned under the state quarantine order, or-der, the domestic science kitchens and the teachers are Idle. Kach school la provided with ample facilities for providing pro-viding fond for several families In each district. The work will be started as soon as the supplies can be delivered. deliv-ered. TEACHERS AS NURSES. The serious shortage of nurses Is being relieved In a measure by local school teachers, many of whom have ' volunteered to act as nurses. Seventy-, five teachers met In the city courtroom court-room In the Public Kafety building and volunteered to aid the boards of health in combating the disease. They were addressed by Pr. T. I). Bestty, state health commissioner; Dr. Samuel O. Paul, city health commissioner, and Kohert J. Shields, manager of the local Red Cross. Twenty-five of the number num-ber volunteered to leave the city to aid stricken families who have appealed ap-pealed for help. Because of the nature of the malady 1 health authorities say that trained nurses are not absolutely necessary to be of great aeststsnce. Vlane are being made to hold Instruction c la sees dstly In the Public Kafety building, where patriotic women may volunteer tn serve as nuraes during the crista. DEATHS REPORTED. (Heaths are still occurring and the malady continues to spresd on over a I wide area without abatement. While lwssbel1eved two days ago that the j aaassBBssBasBBBKasKBaaaaaaaasi PATIENTS (Continued from page 1). ! turning point had beet, reached, new cases continue to develop daily;. Ra- I porta tend to show a alight decline In j ' the percentage of deaths. Many patients afflicted with mild : forms of the malady have, passed the three-day serious period and have fully ful-ly recovered, according to local officials, offi-cials, feuch patients have already been discharKed from Judge Mercy hospital and the Isolation wards of other hospital. hos-pital. Fifty extnt cots were sot up In Judge Mercy hospital this morning to meet the lncroHatng emergency. They were 1 brought from Kt. IuglHs and will pro- j !'tde the facilities for handling many adtlHional caaes. j : NURSES. SENT CXUT. I Two trained nurses hsve been sent 1 out by the Utah public health service ! to travel through the state to Instruct I the public In the treattMMH and care of Influenia patients. Dr. Samuel (l. Paul estimated that there are now at least 1 000 cases of i influenxa In Salt Lake. In addition fM-vra4 thnisand have been reported . I from other cities and towns, with few j places escaping the malady entirely. ALL WEAR MASKS. Wearing f gause masks may become I general throughout thecountry. This precaution Is regarded by local officials to be the most effective means or preventing pre-venting infection. The authorities of Bingham have Issued an order compelling com-pelling every person who enters a store or public place to wear a maak. Six deaths occurred yesterday In OKden and a total of Si 8 cases are now reiMirted prevalent In the Junction City. DEATHS IN SALT LAKE. Among the deaths reported In Salt Lake were. Lolo Brown, 1 year old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Brown, at a local hospital; James J. O'Carmll, 42 years of age, at a local hoapltal; Charles Herbert Button, 2s years of age, at 3 Kast Fifth fctouth stret: Sarah Spainhewer Schslllng. wife of Henry Sr hailing, at 43 Jeremy street: William L. Jacobs of the University Uni-versity of Utah training detachment, at the post hospital; Hoy V. Nelson of Randolph. Utah, also a member of the University of Utah training detachment, detach-ment, at the post hospital; Mrs. K. T. Barton, wife of Lieutenant H T. Barton Bar-ton of Camp Fremont, Cal , t a local hospital. The Red Croaa unit of the First Methodist church will meet tomorrow fur an all day session for the purpose of making material with which to fight the epidemic of Spanish Influenza. |