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Show epUomio is . . I can-icd on. Althou .' -v , It a decrease in tbc number of r . H casesi reported yesterday, tho i , mand for nursos was greater than on any previous day, according to a -a-. statement. given out at Bed Cross T. headquarters at Amelia palace. "Twcnty-fivo moro nurses will sa.ve the situation," said Robert J- (. Shields, manager of tho Red Cross, yesterday. I If Sunday's indications aro to bo considered con-sidered BUBSCsLlvc. tho , influenza situation situa-tion in Salt Lake is loss serious. Ninoly-nlne Ninoly-nlne new cases of the, epidemic wero reported re-ported lo tho'lufiitli officers yesterday,, as apainst IIS Saturday. Tlicro liavo been "five deaths from tho disease sines tho previous report. "There is some reason to assume that the cr-est of tho epidemic relapse ha been passed, but tho general condition in the city is far from being assuring." Dr. Samuel O. Paul of tho city health department de-partment said yesterday. Ho stated that his department during Sunday quarantined quaran-tined sixty-seven houses and that tha Isolation squad would resume, operations early this morning. Altogether, according to nr. Paul, t.iors nre now approximately SOW cases of influenza in-fluenza under tiuarantine in Salt Laso. This number will bo considerably increased in-creased bv tonight, as many patents have not been recorded, through failin-e on tho part of those in cnargo of them to report to the health authorities. Ogden Situation. Six deaths and seventy-seven additional addi-tional influenza cases were reported yesterday yes-terday at Ogden. The record on Saturday Satur-day was six deaths and eighty-five case of the malady. , Three new cases of influenza were ad- mltted to the isolation hospital at Fort y Douglas yesterday. The cases wore from outside the post, however. No now cases lf have developed among members of tha post garrison. Although the disease has apparently run its course among the troops at Fort Douglas, the military quarantine at the fort is still in force and the public is asked to remain away, unless it is neces-sarv neces-sarv to go there ou business. Tlie quar-ant'ine quar-ant'ine at tlie post will not be officially raised until the restrictions in the eiv.v and state are declared off by the stated health board, it is stated. ' Of the new cases in Salt Lake, thirteen were reported at the hospitals, with two deaths. Tlie deaths since tho last report are: John "vVadlcy. 30 years old, of Pleasant Grove, at a 'local hospital: Ksther I. Hlaine. : year old, No. 3 Lester court; Carl A. Jensen. 2 years old, 137 North Fourth "West street; John R. Peynon, 20 years old, 50G Kast Twenty-first South street, at a local hospital; Gust Girm- . polikas. 35 years old, Magna, at a local hospital. Probe U. of U. Cases. Governor Bamberger yesterday appointed ap-pointed a committee to investigate henltfi conditions at the University of Utah, where there are about S00 youns: men of tlie student army training corps in barracks. bar-racks. A few cases of influenza have been reported in the corps. The committee is composed of President Presi-dent J. A. Widtsoe of the university. Dr. Perry G. Snow of tlie university faculty. Colonel Edmund S. Wright of the student army training corps and Dr. T. B. Eeatty of the state health department. A report of the committee pertaining to its investigations inves-tigations will be made to Governor Bamberger Bam-berger and is expected to carry a recommendation recom-mendation that members of the training body be given indefinite furloughs, so they may go to their homes until the epidemic has passed. |