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Show GAUZE MUZZLE IS OPPOSED BY 0001035 Campaign for Its Use in Combating Influenza Falls Flat. One Hundred and Eight New Cases; Two Deaths Reported, in Salt Lake. The campaign for 1 1 1 o adoption in rt;df Lake of the infhicii7.it. ma. k is prnrt ieally dead. Yesterday Sab .aku ph ysi.'iaiis went on i-fi-r.nl us following in the f.,,t-s'epn f.,,t-s'epn of hading health a lit hont ie.- of the I 'nlterj Slat.--; In t li'-lr cmdc niiinl Ion oT llin 1 1 fj i of the muzzle, characterizing rite propufjofj adoption, n:i a universally com-pubiory com-pubiory measure, as not only impnu't ii-al and Ineffective, but likely to become a po.lt lvt menace, j Telegrams fruni all parts ot the Lulled i ' .States bave been pouring in at the office of-fice of In-, T. H. Realty, secretary of tho t;ito board of health, showing that there !.'! rnueh skepticism regarding the efficacy effi-cacy of tho gauze rrta.sk and that In many communities the compulsory use of the muzzle ban had little, if any, influence in checking the disease. One of tho most emphatic condemnations of the use of tho m;iHk pomes In a t e eram from Or. J. X. Murty, stale health commissioner of Indian;', who says "masks arc us Hews, deleterious and unnecessary." f r. 1 1 ur-ty'n ur-ty'n opinion carries great weight from the fact that he is a health orflctal of national reputation and an authority on publii: health. Denver's Experience. Lcnver experimented wit h the, gauze mask Tor a tew days, hut the Innovation proved ineffective, according to Health ( 'nmrnlsstoncr W. H. Sharpb-y, who In it telegram to I t. Realty yesterday said: "The masking order was removed November No-vember 'hi, on which date thirty-two deaths and 70 new cases were reported." lr. K. K. Kennedy, secretary of the Colorado Colo-rado state board of health, confirmed Dr. Sharpley's telegram, which slated thai "the mask has proved Ineffective In Denver." Den-ver." Kve ry thing is open in Colorado e.M-ept public schools. Denver's mortality has reached 'ISO deaths, more than twice as many as Salt Lake's casualties, other cities in Colorado Colo-rado where masking was triad e compulsory compul-sory report a second wavy of influenza epidemic. This report is In line with word from other sections of the United States to the effect that increased cases came where enforced wearing of masks had b 'en t ried. Tho following telegrams were received yesterday at the state board of health: Still More Condemnations. Sacramento, Cal. Comparison of morbidity and mortality mortali-ty curves various cities shows lit tie if any influence from eompulsorv masking. AW hi. KUUhOLlG. Seattle. Wash. A m skept ical regarding efficacy of masks. Kpidemic apparently passed in asnington except in a few Isolated localities. T. D. TUTTLK. Indianapolis, Ind. . Masks are useless, deleterious and unnecessary un-necessary In my opinion. j. iv. nuKTV, ' State ilealth Commissioner. Dr. Beatty says that in Salt Lake the cpiflcnilc condition is rapidly subsiding and adds that In the state outside ot Walt Lake and Ogden the pean of epi-. epi-. dcinlc activity was reached about November No-vember 1. Lcspito tlio peace demonstrations. demonstra-tions. Dr. Beat ty says, the downward curve In epidemic, activity has persisted. Two Deaths in Salt Lake. Only two deaths chargeable to Salt La ke were registei ed yesterday, including includ-ing Oscar C. Hunter, aged and A. It. Cannon. 1S. Two others deaths, being those of ICdward R. Jen nings, Ho, and John Arvll Johnson, y L', occurred at local lo-cal hospitals, but both these men are said to have been 1 rought in in serious condition from Murray several days ago. The list ot new cases developing yesterday yester-day included 1"8 names. Heeding the promptings of the state and city hoards of health, Mi persons yesterday yes-terday applied for and received the preventive pre-ventive treatment against influenza which, is offered free to all by the city health office. The various stations opened ahout the city were well patronized all day, starling early in tlio morning. Hut the largest throng gathered ill the "emergency hospital in the safety building, where .".G I Salt I.akers were inoculated against 'the sconrij;e, Including Mayor and Mrs. W. Mont Ferry. ' When the outlying stations reported last night it was found that a total of 4 1 t3 persons had applied for the treatment at the fire stations, as follows: Fire station No. 2, 1T North Second West street, 1S9; No. 3. 1133 East Twenty-first South street. 9: No. 4, 2.U 1, street, fin; No. 1023 Last Ninth South street, and No. t!, Eighth South and I'ost streets, 77. Liquor Is Dispensed. In addition lo the work of inoculating, those wiio applied at the emergency hospital, hos-pital, the nurses at that institution were kept busy throughout the day dispensing liquor to applicants who brought the necessary prescriptions from reputable physicians. A total of A nt such prescriptions prescrip-tions were filled, each one calling for a half pint or a pint allowance. Two barrels bar-rels of the stimulant have already been issued tiiere since the police arranged to use the contraband as an anti-influenza w e; pon. All confiscated Honors thai have been seized by the sheriff's office since the I enact men t of t he pro hi hi tm law. were I yesterday smt m the county hospital for upc and distribution. A onroxitnatel v half a dozen barrels full constituted t tic lot. AM Intoxicants dispensed from the county coun-ty 1 1 o s c i t a 1 will be given out under t h e same rule- and regulations governing the issuance or" stimulants at the emergency hospital by the city, hut the county Honor will he for the use of persons living liv-ing outside the city. Other cities in Salt T.ake county will be supplied from the . s;ock seized by the sheriff and his dep-I uties. At Fort Douglas. Two deaths from influenza were reported report-ed from Fort Douglas yesterday. One w as in the post Isolation hospital' and the other at the war prison isolation hos-pi:ai. hos-pi:ai. Ernest alklns. a member of the student stu-dent army training corps at the Univer-. Univer-. slty of Utah, died ot" the influenza pneumonia pneu-monia at tho hospital yesterday morning. Charles Morth. a Herman prisoner of war, died at the prison hospital from pneumonia during the early morning, fie was burled at the post cemetery yesterday yester-day afternoon. " There-were nine new cases of influenza admitted to the post isolation hospital during the day yesterday and six on the pre v. ions day. No new case1 developed i tiie war prison camp. There have been no new ca ses of the d isease in the prison camp since a week aso yesterday. Condi t ions in some parts of r he stare o.i (side of Salt I-ake are imoroving, according ac-cording to reports received by the s;ate board of health, whfle ca!!: from n:ner places, received by the local Red Cr."ss. Indicate that there has been little or no Improvement In the communities from v. M.-h the calls have come. "We have a nurse at Torrey. Wa vnr roijnry," shrd Kohert J. Shields, manager of the Ked Cross, last nlgiu, "and she i reports th;it the, situation there is beyond h'T. S.:e asked us for help, staling that there is no doeior and no jnedlcin; to be had within twenty-five miles. She declares de-clares that recently she was compelled to travel eighty miles in one day to make several calls in the surrounding entry. We had more than tinny calls for nursed today, but were unable lo fKl more than leu of them. We can handily make use of at least t wen ty-f i ve more nurses, and again urge all who are able to volunteer for that work. We are hoping that more school teachers will respond. ".Magna am Bacchus re again in bad shape, more than .twenty new cases of the malady having developed in those towns In Lhe last forty-eight hours.. Nurses are badly needed there, too." Information received hy the state board o: health last, night from Ogden intricate tiiat the epidemic Is still on the wane, only forty-six new cases having developed- yesterday, and but three deaths being be-ing registered. Those who succumbed to the ailment were Joseph A.' Conahan, aged :;o: Mrs. Sarah L. Parfer, 21, and Josepii Scowcroft, Jr., US. Pnpvo Reports Improvement. Miss T, come Keeder. who recently returned re-turned to her home from fcjalt I -ike. Is reported dead at Krigham City. The situation sit-uation there is said to he Improving. Frovo also appears to show continued improvement, with but one death registered regis-tered t here yesterday, that of Wallace Karl flallltlay, 13 years old. As an additional addi-tional precautionary measure, Utah county coun-ty yesterday adopted a compulsory masking mask-ing order. It was explained that this measure was Intended -more to forestall a possible relapse than for any other reason. rea-son. . Fieports reaching the health officers from Tooele Indicate that the disease is making slight gains there, and Dr. Clarence c "lid wards, who recently stamped out the epidemic at Thistle, has been assigned to Tooele. He will leave for that place this morning. |