Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-08 | Page 19 | Mortality Chart of Epidemic in Salt Lake

I ' MORTALITY CHART OF EPIDEMIC IN SALT LAKE i , TOURING the first week of the Influenza epidemic in Salt Lake four j -U deaths were reported. It will be noted by the chart that the mortality j climbed steadily until the fifth week, when the peak was reached with a I total of seventy-one deaths. The decline from that point was sharp and j dropped in the sixth week to thirty-one deaths and in the seventh week to twenty-two deaths. The figures at the top o'f the ' accompanying chart show the number of weeks the epidemic has been ranging, and the figures fig-ures at the bottom indicate the number of deaths in each week. The armistice armi-stice celebration sent the fatalities back to thirty-five in the eighth week, but the ninth week showed a further increase of only seven deaths. For the tenth week, which, would end on December 10, the number of deaths for the first four days ending yesterday, namely, fifteen, indicates a daily average of 3 deaths. If this ratio be maintained, the end of the tenth week would show a decline in the mortality to twenty-six, plus, or a decrease de-crease of sixteen, as compared with the ninth week.