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Show SIX DEATHS FROM EPIDEMIC IN CITY I Four Fatalities in Ogden, State Health Officers Learn. OUTLOOK IS BETTER Warning Against Undue Optimism Sounded by Local Officials. THE LOCAL SITUATION. Deaths reported in Salt Lake to date 168 Cases reported to date 8728 Cases reported Sunday 33 Cases reported Monday lo Cases reported Monday one week ago 82 Deaths reported Sunday 6 Deaths reported Monday 6 Total cases in hospita-ls ISO Optimism prevails among state and city ! health officials as encouraging reports j are received regarding the influenza1 situ- j ation. In Salt Lake twelve more cases i were reported yesterday than the pre- j ceding day. but the death toll remained -the same. Forty-fire new cases were re- j ported yesterday, or twenty-seven less j than the same day one w eek ago. Six j deaths were reported as a result of the ! disease. , Ogden reported sixty-one new cases j Monday and four deaths. As a means of insuring care for indi- , gent persons, who are properly county charges and are afflicted with influenza, j toe board of county commissioners adopted yesterday a recommendation made by Dr. T. J. Howells. county physician, phy-sician, whereby the county is zoned and a resident physician made responsible for conditions in each of five zones. The first zone includes all territory north of Twenty-first South street, east of Ulain street; the second zone includes all territory north of Twenty-first South street, west of .Ma'n street; the third zone includes all territory between Twenty-first and Thirty-third South streets; the fourth zone includes all territory between be-tween Thirty-third and Eighty-eighth ' ' South streets, and the fifth zone ah territory ter-ritory ii the county south of Eighty-eighth Eighty-eighth South street. The first three zones will be under the charge of three assistant county physi-cians, physi-cians, residing therein, each of whom draws a salary of at 1 5 a month. For the fourth zone a resident physician is to j he apopitited at J-7-0 a month, and for the fitth another at J26. Conditions Encouraging. At the Red Cross hospital conditions aie. encourazing. as no serious cases i developed during the last twenty -four I hours." There are now seventy -one pa- tients in that institution. The organiza- tion of the hospital work is so perfect j that every patient receives the utmost care and attention and ralients are dis- i charged as cured in increasing numbers. Red Cross headquarters was the only i point on the firing line in the -ombat j with the epidemic where reports were i made yesterday 'to the . effect that the tension still remained great. Robert J. Shields, manager of the Red Cross, reported re-ported that more calls had been received for help yesterday than during any past three days. Late'last night sceh trained nurses were needed to answer urgent calls. The death toll in Salt Lake Monday follows: George Crowton, Mrs. X. TV. Giles. C. L. Merritt. Mrs. Mary Marcroft. j tjjf io Bilboa. 'Lewis Vaiarinl. ; Two nurses were sent to Portage, 1 w-pere the situation is reported to be un-tra un-tra proved. Calis for nurses were received ' from Bountiful and one from Ogden. A I ca!j for a nurse to attend to a case of I scarlet fever went unanswered, as there were no trained nurses available, and Mr. Shields held that It would not be fair to the volunteer nurses to ask them to I take charge of a case so severe and which they would be a a loss how to handle. Mr. Shields's Statement. "It is much too early to -decide that! trie situation has improved.' said Mr. Shields yesterday. "I consider it premature prema-ture to make any predictions in the face f the situation as It has appeared to ua i today. The fluctuations In the number' of new capes report ed has been deceiving In the past. Certainly it is no time to relax in the - igirous fight against the epidemic .hist when the machinery for the fisrht has been brought Into line." Many young women from the department depart-ment stores who recently volunteered to nurse Influenza 'ases have been railed on by the Red Cross and are said to be j doirnr splendid work. Dr. W. 1. Hanson of Reno. Nov.. who volunteered for field work, wa pent to Panguiteh vestsrday by Dr. T. K. Realty, state health com-! missioner. A strict quarantine in still in I force at Ophir, and it Is reported that It! as protected the town from the ep!-I rfe-mlc. Dean W. W. Fleetwood is fttak- I 'ruy a isit to Logan and Rrigham City to survey the situation and direct the work of the Red Crosa organizations. There were no deaths from influenza at the Fort Douglas isolation hospital ' yesterday and only six new cases of the I dfooaae were admitted durinej the riav. The influenza situation of the post Is steadily Improving, and it is Indicated that within a week or more the quarantine quaran-tine at the post may be raised, pro" Ided there Is no fresh development of the cpl-r cpl-r define. Seeks .More Nurses. According to a report from bhrreka. Tho 1 mayor of that town was In Salt Lake yesterday in a vain search for trained nurse.". Jt. was reported thai every family fam-ily In Eureka had been afflicted with Influenza. In-fluenza. Every member of a certain family of nine wa ald to be seriously HI with the disease. Reports received from t 'odu r City &re to the effect that the dlnease n ntlll spreading, despite 'he fact 'ha) the war ma of gauze nmk Is universal Dr. Tcnnant. who was assigned to BSfo And later u Moab. has returned to Ball Lake, SJ he is now it;. He stated that at Srgo tho rsvagei of the disease were yet severe that the rr,- ,-sTui) was compelled to shul down. Ninety cases and four deaths were i eported from thai town. Dr. Myers, who was ssslffncd to Dracon, reports thai out f'f population Of Z'W a' rrat'"n n nd Wat son there are uw sixty ca wen a nd that five persons have died of the rjlsenne Condition Elsewhere. An emergen''.'.- hospltii I his bcefi Mh r ' d with bit assistance, and a physcfan and nijre placed In charge. Ur. Myers has been pent to Vernal, where all Oie pnysl-' pnysl-' tapa are WT with iiifliien7.a. There are .y cnrfM of Inftuen.a In l'oi -J 'ftge. d hided among ilaty-fivs families, ri-.vo reported iventy"one new cases veflterda y, Brfitham Cilj repoftad nvff sams and Iwo deaths. Cphralrti re ported twenty-four rew nrsses brinaina ihe total io va. l, uridyl hsn turned Its ti ne hsll Into an emefsnej hnspltal There were sevent; -fl' e ( r'-pm'te'j in 'hS tow n during the rnotilb ' ( M-iobei Reports foi lh dh.-i month weri ,el-ed from flfly-fi - M Hi'- -l.ile hnp rd rf health - U id earl t;n sps f in fl hi; n .a hud ne:urred In tlee towna and about seranty deaths, unoffl-cUtl unoffl-cUtl estrfnateg t"r ths stats hgvs placed ihe tot,i unrulier '-r death a hi gnorjl '"'n Mffi the total number ot oases at about I 16,000, i Cpon tns reouosi tt . i, pSvanc oHy I ssniton, and ths motloo "t Cotnmtasloner LHermarj h Green, head "f the depart rflenl of iMtrkja ri puhUc probarty, the if -olTtinis'!l.n ;ip)M'ip, 1 ( ed "Ififl lo Ihe i-itg" ftocouni snd 1400 to the Mupply end Lueftsss counl of ihe 1 1 csmtsr last niiihi to nteol ths demands occa iloned by liit'i ea lod ntortallty from Spanish in -fiuenss The communication from lha loxton WS to Ihe effect t)i;l Shsrs Ihiee men Im'i been aufflrdeni ordinarily lo d ihe nai i mi j' v.i u 1 1 1 i from I wolvo to fifteen lire employed e erv fluy no |