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Show THIffTY-ONE CASES, s ILKA REPORT Three Deaths Recorded in City; Health Boards Issue Is-sue Statement. Thirty-one new caacs of Influenza were reported to tne city board of health yesterday. Only sixteen now houses were placed under quarantine. Three deaths frojn influenza ware reported, as follows: Miss X.ula Falkner. 26 years of age, 562 Pugsley court; Miss Florence Burton Jleove, 21 years of ae, local .lospital. and Miss Helen- Bessie Meyer, 4 years of age, MS South First West street. At the meeting of the American Public Health association and conference of state boards of health held recently at Chieapo, a committee report giving- a eonipilation o'f methods fur the handling1 by public health officers of the second . wave of the. epidemic, or future outbreaks, out-breaks, was read. The report made recommendations rec-ommendations identical with the regulations regula-tions in force in Halt Lake, and nianv of the men indorsing it represented some J A the best-known health authorities in jA the United States, among them being W. r ('. Woodward, public health cominission-w cominission-w er of Boston. ( '"The committee recommends." the report re-port says, "compulsory reporting of cases; isolation and placarding so far as practicable; closing of schools and prohibition pro-hibition of public funerals, not for preventive pre-ventive purposes, but in order to release medical and other service for general use; survey and organization of medical, . nursing, hospital, ambulance and hearse facilities in each community; central diet kitchens where necessary, and in some cases central laundries or the taking over of public or private laundries, and prevention pre-vention of profiteering in drugs or service." ser-vice." The following telegram was received yesternay by becretary Arch M. Thur-man Thur-man of the state council of defense from the council of national defense , "A reappearance of the influenza epidemic epi-demic is now threatened in many parts of the country. The surgeon general of the United States public health service has issued warning. The original epidemic epi-demic persists widely. Everywhere epidemic epi-demic and other abnormal conditions created by the war have left millions of people peculiarly susceptible to the disr-ease. disr-ease. "Risks are aggravated by the fact that medical and sanitary facilities have been depleted to meet -war needs and ' cannot be restored for some time, nor ! without concerted effort. In view of the emergency we recommend that the en- I tire forces of the state council and state j divisions of the woman's committee be thrown back of public health authorities. "Intensive work locally with individuals individ-uals is especially called for to guard the population during the winter. Community Commu-nity councils should, therefore, be instructed in-structed to bring together, under definite defi-nite working arrangement, representatives representa-tives of all local agencies touching health and to put at their joint disposal facilities for reaching the entire community." com-munity." "I fully agree with the views of the council of national defense as to the im-! im-! portance of intensive educational work on the part of every available agency to combat the further ravages of influenza," said Dr. T. B. Beatty last night. "The public must be made to realize that while its epidemic character has largely disappeared in various communities, there is a probability of active recurrences recur-rences and almost a certainty that the malady will prevail sporadically during the entire winter, at the cost of many lives. Also, the history of past epidemics epidem-ics shows that the second year it is almost al-most invariably more severe than the first. All forces should co-operate with the health authorities in an educational campaign. In order that the fundamental measures required to safeguard lives and to hold the disease in check may be made known as widely as possible,." Dr. Samuel G. Paul of the city board of health, who has returned from1 Chicago, Chi-cago, where he attended the convention of the American Public Health association, associa-tion, reports that it is the universal opinion among medical men that educational educa-tional campaigns and the use of vaccine vac-cine have been the strongest factors in overcoming the epidemic. Dr. T. J. Howells announced yesterday 'that the wearing of the influenza mask is no longer compulsory in the county. The ban on public assemblages will be liTled Saturday in most of the towns of the county. |