Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-08 | Page 14 | Hospital is Offered to Fight Disease

HOSPITAL IS OFFERED TO FIGHl DISEASE Judge Mercy to Be Placed in Condition for Influenza Influ-enza Patients. To assist in the fight against the spread of Spanish influenza, the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, Catholic bishop of Salt Lake, i yesterday authorized the Red Cross to take over Judge Mercy hospital for the treatment of local victims of the disease. Work tv" ill begin at once to fit the hospital hos-pital for receiving patients. No additional deaths from the malady were reported yesterday, although a total of twenty. fixe cases have now been discovered dis-covered in the city. .Ml of these cases I are said to be of the milder form. Six cases are now undergoing treatment in j the special v ard prepared by Dr. T. J. Howels at tiie county hospital. Word was received from llebcr City last night to the effect that James A. McDonald, well-known sheepman, died t ne re yesterday from the disease, which he is supposed to have contracted at Kansas City, Mo. Several other sheep-raisers sheep-raisers in the Heber City district who have just returned from Kansas City are said to be in serious condition from the same cause. The family of Thomas R. Ryrne of 1410 Rntlor avenue, consisting of himself, wife and son. are all suffering from influenza, accord inp- to health department reports. The funeral o"f Kucene Rossi, the first Salt Lake vict im of the malady, w ill be held at i1 o'clock tins afternoon in the S. p. Lvans chapel. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.