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Show INFLUENZA GAINS i ' GROUND IN CM Epidemic Though Mild Spreads Into Many Homes and Makes Situation Serious. VERY FEW PEOPLE TAKE DISEASE SECOND TIME Cedar City the Hardest Hit Settlement Settle-ment in Southern Part of State, But No Deaths Have Occurred Yet and No Very Serious Cases. The influenza situation at the time of closing our forms on this issue of The Record is serious, in point of the number of persons affected with the disease, which is variously estimated at from one hundred to one hundred fifty. Of course, in a widespread epidemic ep-idemic of a contagion of this kind which is so hard to distinguish from a case of ordinary cold or grip, there are certain to be some cases quarantined quaran-tined as a precautionary matter which are not really "flu." But the fact remains re-mains that there are a large number of cases, and the disease is distributed distribut-ed to practically every quart r of the city. So far as the violence of the cases are concerned, we are thus far to be congratulated upon the mildness of the epidemic, there being at this writing writ-ing no really serious cases, and none of the patients having developed pneumonia, pneu-monia, which is ulways the fatal form of the disease. How long this condition con-dition will maintain if the epidemic continues, no one can tell. But it is not probable that it will be for any indefinite period. A change in the weather, which has thus far been most favorable, may precipitate a lot of serious if not fatal cases. So that the sooner the disease can be eradicated eradicat-ed the better. There is one conspicuous and outstanding out-standing feature connected with the present epidemic which is that very few persons known to have the genuine gen-uine influenza last season are taking the disease again. There is a marked immunity on the part of those who have previously experienced the malady. mal-ady. This is a great help in obtaining obtain-ing assistance in nursing the sick, .since there are a lot of people in the community who are comparatively immune. The district school hospital was opened op-ened yesterday and is beginning to M-rve a good purpose. The local forest for-est service has assisted very materially mater-ially in the matter of cota and bedding bed-ding and many citizens have also responded re-sponded generoysly to the call for equipment and supplies. The local chapter of the Red Cross is also doing do-ing excellent work, and while there is still a serious shortage of help for still a serious shortake of help for nursing and caring for the patients, the situation is fairly well in hand, and will doubtless improve steadily from this time on. County Agent Alma Ksplin is right at the front as chairman of the Relief Re-lief committee and is rendering priceless price-less service to the lomunity.ccccccc less service to the community. Bishops Bish-ops H. H. Lunt and W. R. Palmer are also throwing a lot of energy into the work and are doing every thing in their power to assist the sufferers and handle the situation in the best possible pos-sible manner. Many good anil noble women of the community, whose names we will not attempt to mention men-tion here, have neglected the duties of their families at home to answer the call of the afflicted. Thus far it has not been necessary to call for outside assistance, arid barring bar-ring some unforseen development, it is not probable that such course will have to be resorted to. Cedar City seems to be the hardest d hit of any town in the southern part feflH of the state thus far. At Parowan WB they report no at St. George V only a very few. Parowan is wisely 1 maintaining a rigid quarantine and admitting no one except upon the most satisfactory evidence of immunity. |
