Show INFLUENZA IS SPREADING RAPIDLY HERE S Twenty five New Nev Cases Reported Re Rc ported One Soldier Vict Victim I That Salt SnIt Lako Lake and tho the entire Intermountain intermountain Inter Inter- mountain country can escape jin n epidemic opt epi demic of the thc Spanish Influenza only through the tho united operation co-operation of oC the thc general public was WAR the tho belief beller ox pressed expressed yesterday b by elt city county and state health officials Twenty five new cases case of or the tho aso tase hR have developed de In Silt Salt Lake Lako durIng during dur- dur Ing ng the tIle past St twenty four hours Fifteen teen cen families In the city are arc now suffering suf- suf fering attacks while according to health officers many others ma may re remain remain remain re- re main undiscovered ered Coal Is In tho the throes of oC an an epidemic through h the tho of ot the tho malady malad by hy a a. L soldier who recently arrived there from Washington Washing YC ton on barracks harrack Several Se cases were re re reported e ported in other Utah cHip and towns tons One death from pneumonia following influenza wa was reported in Ogden Os Officials Official Locally the tho board of or health has In substance e sent out word that the city should hould prepare to fight the tho disease l eaM In epidemic form They strongly tron advise ad that hat ever every per person on feeling an any of or the tho of ot Influenza should 10 lose e no notime notime time In reporting their heir cases canes to clans Doctors are ure advised b by T. T B B. Beatty state health commissioner to report all cases to city or local boards of health rather than direct to the tho state authorities According to city health officers no drastic action is contemplated in attempts attempts at- at tempts to prevent the tho further spread of or Influenza In Salt S Lak Lake The They have placed the matter squarely up to the tho public believing that only In its co coop cooperation co- co op operation rallon can the tho disease bo ho successfully successfully success success- tull fully Dr Samuel G G. G Paul Patti city physician announced yesterday that hat Salt Lake will t not follow Collow the tice of or eastern cities in closing schools and other public places place in iii an endeavor to lo o stamp out the malad malady III In Coalville llIe all an places where the genera general gen Jen- era eral public gathers In an any great groat numbers num num- bers have havo been ordered closed until furth r not notice leo according to Dr Beatty Beatt Beat Beat- t ty 3 He lIe a. a advocates 9 like practices In lii all an cities where the he disease has hns attained any considerable headway He lie asked last ast night that physicians report all nIl cases promptly prompt and antI that all an patients be ordered home until the exact nature of or their ailments aliments mn may be determined The first death In Utah duo due to Influenza enza erza was reported yesterday a at the Dee Dec hospital In Ogden The patient as A a 3 man from roni Omaha who entered tho the hospital when taken ill on board a 0 train rain He Ho died from pneumonia which soon developed It Il is said that there theft are rc several se other cases now In th the same hospital Soldier Afflicted Charles Foster Foster AV W. Second South street a a. private In tho ho army Is suf- suf ering from the disease He returned home ionic on furlough from an Rn eastern training camp and was attacked shorty short- short I y after hi his arrival His Ills condition is 13 reported as not serious With Ith the thc state stale fair talt and Mormon church conference in ses session lon tho the disease disease dis dis- ease elac can spread under the most favorable favorable favor favor- able conditions said D Dr Paul yester yester- day I do not think It possible for tor tho the city elty to escape a n. siege of oC the malady malady mal mal- ady In fact I look for the tho entire Intermountain intermountain In- In countr country to have havo It it We Ye have been the host to thousands durIn during dur dur- ing In- ng tho the week and many an of or them have havo had the tho disease Visitors who come In contact with It will carr carry the ailment their far wide to homes and According to Dr Paul the symptoms of or Influenza are first noticed by tho the attacked person when hen he feels the presence pres- pres pres pres- ence of a severe ere col cold lVis then that the ailing one should at once retire to his or her room for tor it is In the early stages of or the disease that the tho germs spread most rapidly rapid Usually tho the pa patient patient patient pa- pa tient remains up from four twenty to forty forty-el forty eight ht hours before becoming bedfast bedfast bed bed- fast and It is then that ho lie is the most moat dangerous to the public Unless the patient encounters pneumonia germs the disease spends itself in a week or orten orten orten ten days according to medical l tics ties None one of or the cases reported y yes yesterday cs to the city board of ot health are nrc of or a a. serious nature |