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Show UD, SAYS n Commissioner Compares Conditions Here With I Those Elsewhere. Commissioner Karl S heid appeared ap-peared before the city commission this morning and stated that he had learned by thorough investigation that Salt like 4iad used more drns-tic drns-tic methods in attempting to suppress the influen.a epidemic than New York. Chicago and t score of big ; Ka stern cities. He stated that New : York had never ched any public ' meeting place, and Chicago hail only i restricted public asscmhUgcs for two Weeks. He stilted" that Salt Iike had ordered the a how houses to close rniiny weeks ago. Mr. Scheld said that according to Id it a which lie had obtained. Salt Lake h:ts bad a lower mortality rate from Influenza than Most on, Pittsburg. Demer. Seittle. N'-w York. Philadelphia Philadel-phia and I.ittle Rock, and yet these cities had found ihe situation sufficiently suffi-ciently good to allow public asfern-blaces. asfern-blaces. The only cities which he had dis-! dis-! covered having a lower death rate in I proportion to the population than Salt j luke are M ;nne;i noli. Indianapolis and Dallas. Mr. Seheid warned the j commission that they might expect j th" board of health to call for yet r more drastic me.isures. : He s: ited that the Influenza sitna-! sitna-! tion was not getting any worse, but th it on the other band It was not showing si ens of greit Improvement ' The commissioner stated that scores .jf .prHos are being vncrinHtcd s.tpt ; d;iv. but that private phvsieians must t lake no the work in order that such la number be vm-em-tcd as will have ; an effect on the inf!u-na epidemic. |