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Show Scores of Influenza Patients in Utah Suffer for Lack of Nurses BLACKLIST FOR FAILURE TO AID IN FIGHT ON EPIDEMIC 17 Deaths Reported in Utah in Past 24 Hours; 200 New Cases in City NURSES! Nurses! Send us nurses at once! This was the urgent appeal from several Utah towns today! to the local chapter of the Red Cross. Hundreds of families in . different sections of Utah are reported afflicted with Spanish influenza. influ-enza. Several more towns are in need of nurses, with none available avail-able to treat the victims. ' A general call for nurses was issued today by the Red Cross. An unlimited number are needed for local and out of town duty. A call was issued yesterday for seventy-five nurses and only five responded, according to local officials. It was announced todav that the situation has got to such a serious point that a "blacklist,'' carrying the name of every nurse who refuses to respond during the crisis, is being prepared. Since yesterday noon nearly 200 new cases have been reported in Salt l ake City alone. Up to noon todayseventeen deaths had occurred throughout the state sinceyesterday morning. With the Judge-Merry hospital thrttirned with congestion In spite of tfif Inc reused accommodations provided, provid-ed, pr pnrHtinns are being rushed for the opening of ?ther Influenza Isolation hofpitnla In other towns. Tlfls work Is in charge of Captain J. N. lolph of Washington, who consented to remain here and aid In combating tha spread of the plague. Today Captain Dolph visited Utrk. Mldvale and Hlngham with a view to arranging for the eatab- L llahment of hospitals at those places. XASK FOR U. S. AID. aAa a reault of tha appeal fmm all aectlons of the state for nurses and doctors, Dr. T. B. lteatty, state health commissioner, baa appealed to Washington Wash-ington for aid. A mcaeage waa sent last night to Burgeon General Blue, head of the United Ktatea public health service, asking that as many nurses as possible be sent here Immediately from states not so seriously afflicted with th malady. An appeal has been made to all sur- geons of th stat to postpone minor operations, In order to release nurses Immediately for lnfluensa work. WHOLE FAMILIES PROSTRATE. "Th appeals from ill over th state for nurses and physicians are pitiful,' said Robert J, Shields, manager of the local Red Cross, today. "Whole families fami-lies are prostrate and helpless for lack of skilled ear. Patriotism alone should Impel women to come forward and offer of-fer their services In this hour of need. - "No check In the epidemic Is yet In sight, was the brief comment of Dr. Beatty. He declared that In spite of the extreme precautions taken, th malady had spread Into six new towns of the state. They sre Ferron, Ooshen, May fie) d, Gunnison, Para goo nah and 1 'a rowan. Thirty cases of lnfluensa are now being be-ing treated at the I D. 8. hospital In a special Isolation ward. Patients are being removed In Increasing numbers 1 to Judge-Mercy hospital from the city and county. One more death at the Utter place was reported today. Five rases suddenly developed today at th plant of ths Utah -Idaho Sugar company at Mldvale. The patients were Immediately rushed to the Judge-Mercy Judge-Mercy hospital for treatment. 430 CASES IN OGDEN. An attempt was made today by clt- j Izens of Ob ilen to secure the services of medical men at Kt. .Douglas to aid in combatiny the epidemic there. A eerl- V ous shortage of doctors and nurses was kvrpeorted In the Junction City and the rnpeal for help waa made through the PSkte health authorities. There are now more than 430 cases In Ogden alone. 202 CASES AT FORT. H The military authorities at Ft. Doug- 11 a s have request ed that visitors re-Con re-Con tin nod on pa JijmiU There la a total of 202 caaea now at tha post. Thla Includes. 117 enlisted men, thirteen nuraes and two medical offl-cera. offl-cera. No caae haa developed In I ha war prlaon camp. RED C08ANN0UNCeMCNT. Mamiger It. J HhteU.a of the local Red t'roaa chapter received a telegram tele-gram from fieotge K Oxley, aaalatant ; lo Ihe flivlMion man.iKrr at lienver, today, reiiueatliia him lo announce for tha brnefil of all Kt-d t'roaa memlera in l lah that whera Influenaa ronill-tlona ronill-tlona made It advlaubla thuae In charae ut rhaplera or Hed t'roaa branchea were authorized to poatpone the anotinl electiona. If Kiatwmr-menta Kiatwmr-menta are derided upon. .Mr. Ulli'y aatd that thoae authorised to du thla ahould at once poet notlrea to title effect. Detailed puatponemenla will be forwarded to all chapter. In the mountain divlalon. Ieaplte the epnlemic of Influenza, the lied Croea work will go forward aa uaual. tireat rare la belnr. exer-rlaed exer-rlaed in the workrooms In order to prevent any Infection among tha workeca. 17 DEATHS REPORTED (Continued from paae I t main nay from the poet during the Innuensa epidemic. Allhouah the poat haa not been quarantined by Waahln-ton Waahln-ton authorities, the military authorl-tlea authorl-tlea make the re,ueat aa a meaaure of protection. In raaea where a aoldler la danaeroualy III one neareat relative may he permitted to aea him. Thirty-one -new raaea of the dlaeaae were admitted to tha poat laolatlon hospital yiaterrlay. Of thla number aeveTiteen came from tha atudenta' rmvrlnnaorjuiahirMeersIt |