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Show 88 H CISES OF FLU, m REPORT l ive Deaths in Salt Lake and Environs; Situation Belter in Ogdcn. 1 wenty-three Patients ir. War Prison Hospital; Need of Nurses. Nicety new :.iM-s of influenza uio reported re-ported .v :'t.-jl;ty lo riiy health auHieri-Uf.-i, v. i l li thn.o deaths during the i : V . f'l.'i tit .th v.... r port-d yt Iho Ji',nlal at J- f j r t WmyJ;.s and nnoth-r at tlio cuuuty !'0-,i!;t. At O-dcti on.; death and tiMy-lihic tiMy-lihic nr-w r.-:" i Tftj rcportid, pivin cvi-i'i cvi-i'i nf cnnl Inued 1 mprovcnicii t. Tho .i-;h-, in H.iH J.ko w-rc: JU". r Fox. ,Fi, .Miiin I'.inin'. and Mrs. Howard I -m.'.'i;i w. I'.ci'l J.'in.j Jones, a in. r,-:lj(r nf l)w- H l.i (!!! r. ;inny 1 mi n nr.; corps a t ilr-i mUlIm university, died at 111'.; fort hos-ntal. hos-ntal. I toy Ciroett died at tho county h spilal. The inocula I ion ward at. tho city rui'T-::fjK'V rui'T-::fjK'V hospital was v. ' 11 patronized all day Mindr.y, vacine Ik hitr administered to ':; applicants. This was tho only ward npiTi in the i-ify lor vaccination, tin- oilier r.ta l Ion i not being equipped to rccchc .:iiifi.tM. I'r. Smii.ii.-1 . Paul of tho r-ilv health fir-pa ri nn nt rr ports having received four incorrect ;tdr!ross'H of patients uimI-t the oii-e of city p)i MoianH. lie mils attention to th" ia-''.'.s-iiiy of reporting doctors bc- lui ms, as otherwise inpcrt.H's arc un:tble, to locate houses. I or purposed of quar.ut-i quar.ut-i ; ne. ' Furnish Osvn Container. Dr. 1'aul also directs attention lo the ruli requiring specified hours lor the- dispensing dis-pensing of stlnndant.-i on doctors' prescription prescrip-tion to patients suffering from influenza. 1 'rescript ions, will he tilled only lift ween y a. m. and D p. m., and Iho applicant is required to provide. his -own container. 1'lfty-eight prescriutious were filled yesterday. yes-terday. Thf cily health officer urges that the people of Salt Lake co-oprale in every possible way with (ho health doparl ment and other officers engaged in tho task of slampiug out the epidemic, and ;is!m par-tiiail'irly par-tiiail'irly that the primary rules contained fn Iho state health board's recent order bo rigidly observed, in: Paul last nitfht said he considered tho local health eltua-iion eltua-iion iiit-ndlng steadil.v. There aro Iwent.v-three mses of infhi-wt.n infhi-wt.n at Iho war prison hospital at Port ivnipHs, all oUl. No new instances of in-flii-'iuza havo Leon reported at the prison camp :dnce laaL .Moiicay and no deaths. Cases in Hospital. At St. lark's hospital five influenza "patients vro received jesterdny, with no d".ths in that institution. At the latter-day latter-day Saints' hospital six pnthnts wore re-''-ed and no deaths reported. Four new 'f'A's were rcportf d at the Jloly Cross hospital, with one death durlntr the day. At the county hospital there were four In-flu-T..a patients reeeived. Kfportini; on the trencr.il situation throughout tho state. Dr. T. B. Beatty last nl-ht said the epidemic was in roni-nU'to roni-nU'to control, except at Tooele, where an average of seven new cases have been reported daily i he past week. Jr. Clar-noe Clar-noe K, Fdwards, who has hcn detached fiom ariny si rvli'e to assist the lTtah siare health board In the present stress, will ko to Tooele today to lend professional as-siManee as-siManee in conibaiimr the disease. "lct tliH pcopio know that tho inccu-lotion inccu-lotion with influenza serum is free, and also make it plain that the state ia prepared pre-pared to farnNh almost unlimited quantities quanti-ties of vac-1 no received from the naval laboratory of public health at Seattle free to physicians and community authorities," said Dr. K-:atty yesttrday. Ho explained th:it durin;: tho day he had been called by telephone scores of times for information informa-tion relating to the charge made for vaccination. vac-cination. Ample Supply Assured. In addition to the vaccine supplied 'by the naval laboratories ai Seattle the state is in possession of a limited amount of Kosenau serum, such lis is used exclusively- hV Mmvo hrnllura nf Rn.ilmri nf Minn. A culture bus been developing in tho state university laboratories some time and there should he an ample sup-pi sup-pi v before loop-, according to X)r. Reattv. The latter sa s the state health department depart-ment is n.ady to send out supplies of the naval serum to any section of the state on call, without charge. Jte follows this statement with a recommendation that all loeal communities provido for free administration admin-istration on tho plan instituted by Salt I emand for nurses and nurse help, trained women, untrained or Just practical, practi-cal, was as sreat at Red Cross headquarters headquar-ters yesterday as at any time since the inception of tho influenza epidemic. Vp to 'A o'clock thirty applications had been registered, and at ." o'clock the total had reached nearly fifty. liut a vorv minor nerceniaqo of tho calls were filled, due, it is said, to the extraordinary activity in providing nurses and helpers in homes Mricken with the epidemic on Saturday. On that dav registrations for assistance numbered thirly-S!x, and at tho end of the day six places were still to be fiilsd. Request for Nurses. Tho requests are chiefly for trained nurses or those having experience of n practical nature, but to meet the demand the Hed Cross management has issued a sw.-epiug end for volunteers willing to bo.p in any capacity. There are reported re-ported many Instances where tho need of a nrotossional nurse is most urgent, but in The majority of iic-tances practical women are of jo-t as groat value in the bouse-lir.id. bouse-lir.id. Thrro, aie other instances where a person who will and can minister to the sick is all that is required. W. S. Lain plum: h, general foreman of t'ne Uio U ramie n-iirond nt Thistle has wntlen a le'.rer to Dr. Lcativ. expressing' ih. thanks of the people of that citv for : tae services r-Midered them bv Dr C'ar- I en.-e bMwanls, who relumed lo Salt ' L:ii;e several d.ls ;o after stamping out tae PMluenz.L epi,i,.mic at Thistle. A hn lr. Bcatty asi;:n-Ml I'r. Lviwunls to take, cnarge tliere two-weeks a.o. more tlian l.t" p.rsous had conlracted tlio mala.dv r.'; the railway service was badlv crip- j'k d. many of the roundhouse and shot) employee being amorg tile sufferers. I n two weeks, according to tee .-u,-r. J)r. Ld wards had the city free of th- disease and but one death had occurred. |