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Show I SIX DIE OF IFLHI : IN SIT LIE : i m JALT LAKE, Oct. 15 "Send us physicians and nurses at once," was the urgent message sent by Dr. T. B, Beatty, state health commissioner, last night to Surgeon General Rupert Blue at Washington. Hundreds of nurses are needed throughout the state, according ac-cording to Dr. Beatty, and many people peo-ple are suffering on account of the shortage of doctors and nurses, t Robert J. Shields, head of the Red . Cross work in Salt Lake tried vainly for twelve hours yesterday to secure a nurse for a family In Magna, every member of which was helpless with Spanish influenza. Urgent appeals were issued by Dr. Beatty and Mr. Shields for workers willing to volunteer volun-teer as nurses. Mr. Shields stated that many o the nurses in the city had contracted the disease before the proper precautions had been learned and the disease recognized. As a result the shortage of trained help is very acute. One hundred and sixty-one new cas-. cas-. r es of Spanish influenza developed In Bait Lake today, according to the city board of health. Entire families were reported to.be prostrated by the mal-Dr. mal-Dr. Beatty issued an order to all ' railroads in Utah yesterday prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale of tickets to- passengers afflicted with Influenza or the transportation trans-portation of such passengers. Conference was the event which brought hundreds to Salt Lake and "' spread the disease, he said. Six deaths were reported in Salt Lake yesterday as a result of Spanish influenza. Melvin P. Smith, 2 years of age, son of T. W. Smith, dieci in Salt Lake last night of Spanish influ- Ienza. F. J. Miller, a resident of Vernal, Utah, died at a local hospital. He contracted con-tracted the disease four days ago. Azello Garcia, a Mexican, died at a local hospital from pneumonia which , developed from influenza. A Japanese died at Judge Mercy hospital early ' yesterday morning. Mrs. L. A. Rushcn-burger, Rushcn-burger, 402 Colonial apartments, died at a local hospital last night. Charles Herbert Sutton, aged 2G years, 643 East Fifth South, son of Henry and Elizabeth Smith, died at 1:20 this (Tuesday,) morning. Dr. Beatty stated last night that sixty-five towns reported the disease in Utah. Now towns which reported the presence of Spanish influenza yes-. yes-. torday were Coruish, Devil's Slide, ., ' Fielding, Glenwood, Helper, Orderville, Sliver City, Storrs, Woodside and I Wellsville. He said Ogden had re-I re-I ported two deaths, Sanpete county I one, Mt. Pleasant one and Coalville R three. The visit of a soldier who was unaware that ho had contracted tho I disease- started the epidemic in Coal- I ville, according to Dr. Beatty andnow I over fifty cases of influenza have been I reported. I Dr. Beatty ' said that five -patients I, had been put off the train in Ogden I suffering from influenza and that the V number being taken from the through I - trains at this point was constantly iu-l iu-l creasing. I The board of county commissioners I voted yesterday to turn over to the Red Cross all county charges who are I afflicted with influenza, tho county to j pay for their care. Tho patients will bo sent to Judge Mercy hospital. The 13 K ;; order concerns only Indigent patients a t who are property county chaVges and m is not an endeavor to provide care for M all persons in tho county who con- Wl tract tho disorder. ml Captain J. M. Dolph, special repre- 'j sentative of tho military relief corpB, ft I is organizing emergency influenza hos- j t " pltals In neighboring towns. These hospitals will work under the direc- tlon of the state board of health. Rob- BR ert Shields yesterday sent letters to Hi, all hospitals in the city urging that fl I! all operations uot immediately ne- nil I. " cossary be postponed in- order that ujn. the nurses may be spared to nurse influenza cases. J! h Christian Brfindley, 32 yoars of age, HI a native of Provo, died on the train wife was to meet him in Salt Lake but received word of his death and went to receive the body In Ogden. Mr. Brandley went to Virginia about three weeks ago to work on special inductions" induc-tions" from the draft for munition works, C. J. A. Lindqulst, undertaker, took charge of the body at the station and it was sent to Provo at 9:30 o'clock last night. j Other Deaths Reported. Kanias, Utah, reported a death from 'influenza in that district. Uenefer reported to tho state board of health that several cases had developed and that an isolation hospital had been established. es-tablished. A message from Coalville last night announced tho death from influenza in that city of J. Arthur Beard, 32 years of age. Mr. Beard's wife died of the diBease last Wednesday and at the time of her death both Mr. Beard and their 9-months-oId boy were critically crit-ically ill. The baby is said to be out of danger. Mr. Beard was the son of Mr. and .Mrs. George Beard and for many years had been employed by the Coalville Co-op, of which his father is manager. George Lord, who died at Fort Logan, Lo-gan, Colo., of Spanish influenza, is tho son of John and Ellen Lord of 1G1 Saxon courL He left Salt Lake on October Oc-tober 2. His bdy is expected to ar-Tive ar-Tive some time today at the Larkln funeral fu-neral chapel. One hundred actors and actresses are out of employment in Salt Lake as a result of the closing of the theaters. Some of tho higher salaried artists are well supplied with money while others are far from rich. James Conlon, a well known actor, wired to Pat Casey, head of the Vaudeville Managers' association as-sociation in New York and Chicago, asking what ho would advlgo the actors ac-tors and actresses to do. Mr. Casey replied that his advice was for them to stay in whatever town they were at the present time and await developments. develop-ments. The artists state that it is the uncertainty of when they can resume their tour which worries them the most. Their salaries stopped when the shows closed. |
