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Show 1FHH DEATHS ' HMCRE1 Some Sections of State Show No Improvement, Others Freed of Ban. ) j X An increase in both new cases anc deaths was shown yesterday in connection connec-tion with the influenza epidemic, fifty new cases and seven deaths being re- - ported to the city board of health last night. The victims to whom the dis-! dis-! ease proved fatal were Kber C. Walker, r 3,1 yours old; Henry Crift, 'X; John S. f Humphries, 35; J. L. Parry, 2S; James . G. Ellis, 3S; AToses 1). Alpha, 21, ami , iJrs. Alice fcSanth Anderson, -17. - Another death reported was that of I J. W. Burdett, aged 21, about tho cause of whoso demise tbore appears to some - misunderstanding, ile died at a local 1 hospital, where it was at first said that he succumbed to influenza. Later ; this was denied, and diphtheria was a.v i signed as the malady which proved fatal to him, while from another source word was received that bronchial pneu-: pneu-: niouia was the cause of death, and that he did not have influenza. The situation at Bingham and Cop-perfield Cop-perfield was reported yesterday to have shown no improvement. Two deaths, those of' Mrs. Sarah IJndborg, 2'S years old, and Ben Matson, 38, were reported. Stringent measures are being adopted by order of the town board in an effort ef-fort to control the epidemic, the wearing wear-ing of masks being made compulsory under certain conditions. The emergency emer-gency hospital is said to have finally been opened for business at Bingham after a great deal of delay. Provo yesterday reported two deaths, Levi Afnrtonseu,' 2'i years old, and Everett Ev-erett West, 2S, having succumbed to the ravages of the malady. From Ogden more than'lOO new cases of influenza and two daaths were reported. re-ported. Those to whom the disease proved fatal were Buroml Denkers, nged 30 years, and Mrs. Eideliia J. Ilal-ler, Ilal-ler, 31. J. D. Simpson, ;"1 years old, was reported re-ported to have died' at Mt. Pleasant following several days' illness from influenza. in-fluenza. Several new cases of the disease dis-ease were also said to have developed there in the last twenty-four hours. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, lecturer on health subjects, who passed through Salt Lake on his way to the Pacific coast several weeks ago, arrived in the city last night en route east. He remained re-mained over night. ' ' The mask is, in my opinion, tho most effective weapon against influenza," influ-enza," said Dr. Hutchinson, "as well as against several other diseases. As a result of the wearing of masks in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the development develop-ment of new cases dropped in five days from something like L'llOO cases to 300 cases a day. The death rate fell proportionately. pro-portionately. ' ' Incidentally, the use of masks in fighting influenza had a rather unlooked-for, but pleasing result, when it was discovered that other diseases disappeared dis-appeared quickly after masks came into general use. Thus, San Ernncisro had whooping cough, - measles and chicken-pox chicken-pox epidemics along with the influenza epidemic, and, much to -the surprise of many medical men, the rate at whi,ch J new cases of these maladies developed, fell just as fast as the influenza rate fell when the wearing of masks was made compulsory." Dr. Hutchinson said that his visit to Salt Lake at. this time hail no significance, signifi-cance, and that ho had merely stopped off to visit with Professor George A. Katon, Dr. E. A. Smith and Dr. Samuel G. Paul, all of whom have been his close friends for a number of years. He will leave for Now York todar. Dr. T. B.Beatty of the state 'board of health said last ni;ht thut "conditions i in tho state outside of the city remained re-mained -about the same as the preceding day, excepting that the ban had been lifted from Karnas, Woodside, Marion, Francis and Peoa, in Summit county, whore no new cases had been discovered discov-ered for a week or more. Despite t lie increase in the number of deaths reported re-ported yesterday, he was optimistic as to the outlook. ' ' The increased number of deaths, ' ' said the state health commissioner, 1 ' merely indicates that sonrc of those who contracted the disease as a result of the armistice celebration are dying. I do not look for any great number of new cases to develop in the next few days, if the public will continue to exercise ex-ercise the needful precautious, and if tho doctors -will pay mi.ro attention to reporti n g new cases when they occur, rather than a week or ten . days later. If necessary, we will get after some of them who have been iax in making their reports. " |
