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Show PLAN 10 FUT END - TO EPIDEMIC HERE Business Men and Others Discuss Methods of Combating Com-bating Influenza. Increase in New Cases Reported; Re-ported; Four Deaths in Salt Lake City, Following tcports th.it indicate a sm-eial sm-eial setback in the influenza situation throughout the stale, a. meeting of physicians phy-sicians and business men was held last nisht at the .Salt Jike Commercial club lo discuss ways and means of putting an end to the epidemic. The gathering resulted re-sulted in the appointment of a C0Tniit-tee C0Tniit-tee of five business men. which wiilNo-S operate with the. state, and city hoariS' of health in devising- measures to bring-about bring-about (he desired results. James P. C.'iisc-v, AT. FJ. Jlanauer, Walter Wal-ter C J.,ew;s. M. I..ipman and Edward P. b vv constitute, the committee which agreed that isolation and the prevention of crowds in stores and other places v,ere the two most effective weapons to combat the spread of the disease. Following the adjournment of the la'-fier sat lie ring: th" committee held a. meetlng-shorllv meetlng-shorllv before irudnii:ht. invilinc flavor W. .Mont Ferry. Cbif of Police .T. Parley ( White and Dr. Samuel (;. Paul, cily henlth comniissioner. by telephone, jreth-ou:-t for securing a. larger measure of co-o co-o pent i ion were, di missed, but the coin-mittee coin-mittee declined Uygive out any details of the, conclusions arrived at or ils probable course, of action. It was said, however, that, the commit le would meet with Dr. F.eatty at 11 o'clock this mornine. and that certain tvcopimenda tions would bi made to him. with t he iviuent that ho lay them before the stale board of health when it meets at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the stato capitol. t Eighty-four New Cases. Faghl y-four new cases of influenza, and four d'-alhs asi a result ot the disease were reported to the city board of health yesterday. The death list Included: J1rs. !. T,ernnrd Cunningham, -4 ears old ; John Bocehan, :n ; "Mrs. Rns-ina. Noall Galea?.zi. and j:ri:ef O. Hxodlak. "2. The lied Cross has sent out another urgent ' appeal for nurses, the withdrawal of ,'ichool teachers having de-moralized the supply of volunteer workers. According to a report given out last nisfht at the Amelia ('a lace thirty-fi ve calls were received re-ceived yesterdnv for assistance, none of which was filled because of scarcity of uu rses. Ogden yes'r rday reported ninety - six new cases of ihe malady and five de;itns. as follows: Hay Campbell, 27: Vivian Owinn fiirker, 2d: Iris Kenyon; Kunosuke Yuasa, 27, an:l Pearl Green (colored),' "Bingham reports indicated that the situation sit-uation is becoming worse and that three deaths occurred there yesterday. Thesft were: Mrs. Laura liawlings, AValtor Birke and Mrs. 1. R. Mitchell. I' rem Tooele two deaths T.ei-e renorted. being thoso of Miss Illn Warner, 24, and Mia. Grace lvclyn Jackson, JS. Deaths Elscwhcje. One death was reported front e? eh of Ihe following cities: Provo. "Ho Petor-son, Petor-son, o) : Slock Ion, A rch ie Pusnclt, 25 : Login i, r; olde ii Ha t field. 2S, a member of the student army tiaining corps; FHcft. Fiiebard Oakley Sumsion; Murray, Mis Ftbel J'owetl, 2fi: Jukeview, W. W. Gc redge, 4.".. Discussing- (lie situation in various part? of the state at the Commercial club meeting meet-ing last nlfjrht, Dr. Heattv auswererl numerous nu-merous question and gave a description of the conditions prevailing in many of the cities of the state. " I ' p to this t an c . " said the s : a t e health commissioner, "the death rate from influenza has been very low in Utah, there being only four-tenths of 1 per cenr. of cases where the disease has proved fatal. "We are hnnelica.ppeel by lack of inspectors, in-spectors, as -our appropriation docs not. permit the employment of them. The eitv officials flhculd. in my opinion, make a special appropriation to cover (he expense ex-pense of tempore rilv employing an increased in-creased number of them, and steps should be taken to prosed. te both private citizens arid physicians who fall instantly to report re-port new cases." A Frightened Community. Referring to conditions aw iie found them on a recent visit to Tremonton, Dr. bJeatty said: "Not verj long' ago T rend an account of conditions as they ex'steel in Ixmdon during dur-ing the black plague in the sixteenth century, mid I did not fully appreciate appreci-ate ihe description given Until T arrived in Tremonton shortly after this epidemic started. Fvoryone seemed scared out of liia wits, and regarded everyone else as if he expected to meet an assassin. Crape was visible everywhere, and even, the elejgs in the street seemed to sense that danger -was impending from some invisible in-visible enemy. AVhile the situation is critical enoug-h, there is. of course, no sense in being frightened out of une's wits." |