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Show !quarantine regulations 1 will be drawn tighter! I Punishment Blanned lor Those Concealing tho i ; Malady; 1 1 3 New Cases Wednesday; j j Five Deaths Hcportcd. ! I i j At ONSf IH:I;AIU.K drop in the number or deatlin reported yes-tordav yes-tordav as i:om pared with t he report a of tho previous da', iir;i i tcned liio health authorities of Salt Lake lnt niht, despite the fa-t tliat tlie number of new cases of influcn.a reporteil was somewhat higher tlian rm Tuesday. ,ow eases roiston-d totaleij 11;;, as against S tlio pro-'ediu day, while the death toll yesterday lei to rive, as enmpared with (dcvmi on Tuesday. Tues-day. Seventy hou.-rs were quarantined yesterday, while the quarantine sin was removed from 1 70 dwellings during Ihn Hatne period. Tim list of fatalities ineluded liOitis H. Strong, nfed 20; John K. I.oih", Margaret liny an, -'2; Kli.ahoth l-ioo;an, J-'i, and Mrs. Mary A. Hoan J'apj'as. .'11. Margaret and Klizahetli Hoau am I iM rs. I'appas were sisters, and they died within with-in ;. tew hours of caeh olhcr. A not her death reported to the city health office yesterday was t hat of 11 enry IiVnliam, 'M years old, a rosi-dent rosi-dent of M ana, who was taken to a local hospital from tho Arthur plant several days, ago suffering from the scon rQ. One t hnusand and twelve persons wore vaccinated against influenza during dur-ing tlio day at the several stations recently re-cently opened about the ' i t-v by tho hoard of health. Of the total number 1st were inoculated at tho emergency hospital, while the remainder were treated at the substations. Ninety liquor prose ript ions were filled. Starting tomorrow, according: to )r. Samuel (i. I'aul of the city board of health, the inoculation s tat ions at the various fire houses will be nut on a different dif-ferent schedule of hours. After Inoculation. "Wo have found," said Dr. Paul last night, " t hat many men who cau not leave their work in tlio daytime wish to tako ndvfintage of the anti-ini"lucnj.a treat meat that is being given gratis by tlio city. For their convenience wo i have arranged to change the hours during dur-ing which the public niav apply for inoculation. Starting Friday tho stations sta-tions will open at noon and remain open until 5 o'clock, when they will close for one hour in order that the nurses in ! charge of them can get their dinners. They will then open again at 6 o'clock and remain open until 8 o'clock in the evening, so that persons unable to come in during the day may have opportunity oppor-tunity to secure immunization. "Wc wish to servo notieo Ihnt we are going to put on a dozen additional inspectors tomorrow morning, whoso sole duty it will be to ferret out instances in-stances Where people are hiding the fact that influenza exists in their homes, and also to gather evidence against persons who violate the quarantine quaran-tine regulations by leaving their dwellings dwell-ings while they are under quarantine. Wo are going to adopt at once a policy of vigorous prosecution of all persons guilty of either of these offenses. If tho appointment of a dozen additional inspectors is not enough to enforce the law, wc shall appoint as many more as niav bo necessary. The opening and closing order will also be enforced to the letter, and every violation that comes to light will be prosecuted with vigor. ' ' Four Counties Free. Four counties of the stato are now free of influenza, according to Dr. T. 13. Bcattv, state health commissioner, and conditions in several other counties are rapidlv improving. "Grand county was opened today," Dr. Beatty said last nisht, "not a eingrle case of the malady having developed there In more than a week. Morgan, Rich and Wasatch counties have also been opened, as the scourse has entirely disappeared there. Reports received today indicate th t Sannete county will be ready to open in another day or two, as the disease dis-ease has practically been wiped out there. "Conditions at Torrey. where the sltn-tion sltn-tion had been bad for some time, have so improved In the last few days that the physician we recently -sent there is to leave for some place where he Is needed more urgently. The situation at Murray is showing great Improvement, only two cases a day having been reported re-ported from there for several days. "Conditions at the students' army training camp at the University of Utah have been such that when the corps Is ordered demobilized we shall keep ev-erv ev-erv member of it under observation for a period of tlft-ee or four days, as a precaution pre-caution against the further spread of the malady." r'gdrn eun I i nues to si iow i in proven iei f, j only forty-eight ease3 and one death be- ; Ing reported from lhaL eitv vesterdaw The statu hoard of healtn' yesterday re- ! reived reports of three deaths, ail of i which oecuiTf-d Tuesday. Thee were1 Mrs. Anna Hi. Germaine, aged L'", at fcingham; Airs. Helen Gushing Rills, 2, a: Taysoii, and Horothy May Matlils, 6 nionts old, at Provo. Three Deaths at Post. Tii ree de;r t hs frorrt i n fi nenza were re-! re-! ported from tiie isolation hospital at Fort i I louglas and fi e new cases of the disease dis-ease were admitted. The new cases were all admitted from Lhc University of Utah training corps. ' The deaths included Sergeant Cleo W. M ile. II company. Seven t v-nint h Infantry, Infan-try, who was in the city visiting his wife when ho developed the maladv'aml was. -id mi I led to the post hospital. 1'rivnte Samuel Opdal of Reno, Nov., also died of influenza-pneumonia. He was a member mem-ber of ) company of the student army training corps at Llie Fnlversitv of T'tah. Private Angus R. M"cKeilar of the University Uni-versity training corps, a Salt Rake boy, died of tho malady late yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Until Tsehke. a sailor of the German vessel Cormoran. which was interned at Guam at the beginning of the war. and who has been under Internment at l he Third war prison camp at Fort nonglas. died yesterday in the isolation hospital of tho prison camp from influenza-pneumonia. Jisehko was one of two sailors left at the local camp when the naval prisoners formerly interned at the Fort 'ouglas camp were removed to Fort Oglethorpe, Gii. He was left here because of I he fact that he was afflicted with tuberculosis tubercu-losis and this climate was considered better bet-ter for him than that at Oglethorpe. raschkc was one of the prisoners taken with the Influenza a week ago Sunday, when the dlseaso first developed in the prison camp. Pneumonia developed and, despite every effort on the part of the prison surgeons, he died from the infection. infec-tion. Shortage of Nurses. Shortage of nurses and nurse helpers has resulted in the Issuance by thc management man-agement of the Ked Cross shop of an Imperative Im-perative order that where influenza-stricken influenza-stricken persons have relatives eapahle of rendering help the Red Cross will make no attempt to supply such assistance. "We are receiving all sorts of demands ; for nurses and household assistants- from i relatives amply able to do the work in sick rooms themselves," said Manager Robert J. Shields of the Red Cross yesterday. yes-terday. Ho submitted a list of families where only one member wan ill from which urgent calls had been made upon the institution for help. In many, instances in-stances offers of remuneration had been made by the .solicitor. Mr. Shields cited one case where a woman is ill with influenza. in-fluenza. "She has several sisters and not one will go near her, because they are afraid they will catch the ailment," he said. The gauze department at Amelia palaee yesterdav supplied the county health board with 500 gauze masks, and also sent out 500 more to Murray. The latter ara1 required to supply a lack at Murray and districts outlying that place. Yesterday twenty-five calls were received re-ceived at " Red Cross headquarters for nurses, and more than twice that number of domestic and sick-room helpers. Ten persons were supplied. Miss Margaret MaeViehie, president of the Salt Uake Teachers' association, has enlisted for service ser-vice at the Red Cross administration building, and will assist in recruiting school teachers to help during the epidemic. epi-demic. Masks in County. Compulsory wearing of influenza masks In Salt I-ke county, outside tlie limits of Incorporated cities and towns, was ordered or-dered yesterday by the board of county commissioners. The county attorney has been called upon to draw a formal resolution reso-lution covering the action. The action of the board was taken upon the recommendation of Dr. T. J. Howells, county physician. ' lr. Howells put In several hours yesterday yes-terday vaccinating county employees at the city and county building. The board of commissioners recommended that the employees em-ployees wear masks in the county offices, but no order that they should do so was issued, the board not having jurisdiction within the city limits. Under the order compelling tlie wearing (of masks in the county, which is to be I effective at once, persons going from the I city out into the county must be equipped ! to don masks as soon as they cross the : city limits, whether traveling on street cars or otherwise. If they would avoid being charged with violation of the county health order. Onlv through Davis county will a resident resi-dent of Salt Lake City be able to get out of the city without wearing a mask. The Salt Lake committee of public safety met yesterday and appointed a sub- ; committee, which Is to confer with the board of governors of the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial club on the advisability of closing tho entire city up tight for several days, to observe what effect such a measure would have on tlie influenza situation. |