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Show IIIFIOEIIZA CUIUS IPpilG Health Official Greatly Encouraged ' as Death Rate Shows Decrease; Physicians Oppose Masks ETIDKMIC condition in Salt Lake arc Knowing sti-inly im-provomrnt. im-provomrnt. ni-oordinc to the ln'.j Jicf of local health officials. Tliis licficf is home out hv tin- fact ! that whlla 108 new cases of influenza yvcrfi reported to the local board of health yesterday, only two dathn were chargeable to Salt Lake City. Two other deaths were reported to the city hoard of health, but thee two patients pa-tients were brought to local hospitals from Murray several das ao seriously se-riously 111. 117 INOCULATEO. Advice of the. boards of health and physicians of the ctty to persons 'n re-.1., re-.1., " i.r. vcntivc f.u- th disease caused 117 peiHoiiH to tp-ply tp-ply o the vaccine stations eterdv fT vaccination. The largest amount lit the vaccine was dispensed st the emergency hospital In the public safety building, where 3M person, including in-cluding Mayor and Mrs. W. Mont Ferry, were Insulated. CAPTURED WHISKY USED. All confiscated liquors seised by t!i Sheriffs office since the enactment f the prohibition law, approximating six or more full bartels, were turned over to t e county hospital yesterday to combat influenza. The liquor at the coi:n:y hospital will be distrlhutvd to Cities In the county outside of Salt Luk", and distribution will be governed by the sime regulations in force at tfie f.tty emergency hospital. One hundred hun-dred ami six prescriptions, each cull- , Ing fnr n. pint or a half pint of l!uur, j were filled yesterday at the etner-Kency etner-Kency hospital. TWO DIE AT FORT. Frnest Wat kins, a member of the students' army training corps at tlio I n. versi.ty of I'tah, died In lh Ft. I ouulas post hospital yesterday and Charles Morth, g (ierman prisoner of v ar. ii u u in the war prison hospital ester buy. Nine new cases of iuf'u-ns iuf'u-ns were admitted to the post hospital hospi-tal yesterday, but no new cases wrro reK rtcd In the war prison. DOCTORS AGAINST MASKS. l?oro:,a fight against any poiibll-ity poiibll-ity 4if tlu compulsory masking crder is leing waged by Salt 1-ake ohysi-t ohysi-t lans, who went on record yesterilay toudeninng ijie mask as a com)ml.ry n eas.iie, impractical and ineffective ind likely to become a positive men-ire. men-ire. This Is In line with the attitude |