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Show III OFF OF CASES -iHfll- Only18-NewPatienU Reported Up to Noon; Physician Deplores the Lack of Liquor for 111 i THE influenza situation ix showing a decided improvement, improve-ment, according to reporti made today. Whilo ninety oases of the malady were reported to the city board of health yeaterday, only eighteen caaea were reported today, a decrease which lead, the health au- thorlttea to believe that the and of ' the epidemic la now In eight. On account of the holiday tomorrow, tomor-row, the atorea of the city will operate op-erate with Saturday hours today. The new opening and cloaing hnura have been carried out to the letter, and . with one exception Miey have been unanimous in the entire city. Kranc a (1. Luke la the only one In the city who la alleged to have violated the rule, ale will be tried In the Justice court. LIQUOR tlfcLU NfclDLD. " laabilite 40 obtain liquor for the treatment of convalescent inflilenu casea haa proven a severe handicap according to I. V. T. McCllllycuddy or San Francisco, former Knited States army Burgeon, on detached duty with the United Slates puhlio health service, who for the (aat two weeka haa been working under tha direction of Ir. T. U. Heatty. atate health com-mlsalnner. com-mlsalnner. In hla efforta to stamp nut the Influenxa epidemic In I'tah. Ir Mctilllycuddy returned' to Halt Lake thia morning from the Wattia coal mines, near Hiawatha, where the epidemic epi-demic was raging. Dr. McClllycuddy attempted to obtain ob-tain aome liquor from the druggist In Price to build up aome convalescent caaea. He waa Informed that the drug atorea carried no Hnuor and that the only way In which It could he obtained waa through the ahcriff f the eounty," who might gLve out aome r.f the alora of liquor he had confiscated. AID TO CONVALESCENCE. "It la ridiculous to bar out liquor Ir casea of elcknesi, Dr. McClllycuddy 1 declared. "Despite prohlliltlonlat con- 1 I tentlona. alcohol has a dernite medicinal medi-cinal value. I am against the saloon and agalnal the use of liquur aa a bev, erage. hut It la of marked value in the treatment of convalescent influenxa casea. and tt haa a definite wlue. medicinally. "Itecause the unrestrained use of whisky breeds drunkarda.lt la foolish for prohlbitionlsta to contend that It haa no medicinal value. They might Just aa well contend that because morphine, mor-phine, cocaine, aspirin and quinine are abused by drug fiends that they have no medicinal value and bar tiie use of these drugs absolutely from the state, aa haa been the rase with liquor. "Whisky in small quantities la a splendid thing for building up men 'find women convalescent from Influenxa. Influ-enxa. I'ed in an eagnog, it ia a etlmu-lant, etlmu-lant, besides making the esgnog mors palatable. It lightens up a stringy pulse. Kinerlmenis of two dtatinrt convalescent cases, where one peraon is given an est nog with a tablespoon of whisky and the other given the egg-nog egg-nog minus the whisky, the reault la apparent within a half hour. The person per-son who haa la-en given the stimulant sIiqhs a marked Improvement as to Montinued on pare S Falling off (Continued from page 1.) pulse, whereas the one who has been given the plain eggnog shows no results. re-sults. "The great difficulty with lnfluenea cases is the marked lack of appetite. The human system needs fuel and these cases show a lack of appetite to take the fuel. In such cases whisk v Is a splendid thing, and It fills In the time until the patient recovers an appetite ap-petite for food and his system Is able to build up. |