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Show LOCAL SITUATION IS ! DECIDEDLY BETTER Improvement Is Shown in Influenza Conditions in City and State. v I Eight Deaths and Reduction Reduc-tion in New Cases ' Re- ported Yesterday. Notable improvement was manifested yesterday in Salt Lake iu connection' with the inf hi on .a epidemic, the number num-ber of new cases reported being almost 0 per cent less than on- tho previous day. Deaths totaled eight, including "Ernestine F.. Lewis, aed 34 years; '.iolden Black, 19; Mrs. G. E. Miller; Melbourne Don Davis, f; Catherine Virginia Vir-ginia Irvine, 3; Alice L. Anderson, 27; Doris Newman, (3 month, and .leneive Palfreyman, 3, who is the fifth member of that family to succumb to the malady i within the Inst week. Thrt the violence ot the scourge is rapidly abating, not only in Salt Lake, but alt-o in tho state, was, seemingly, further borne out by the local Ked Cross report and the reports of the Og-den Og-den health authorities. v Tied Cross headquarters issued a state ment to the effect that the number of calls for nurses was falling, off rapidly. The improvement shown yesterday in the Ogdcn situation was quite as great j as that manifested in Salt Lake, the j rate of development of new cases show ing a decrease of practically 50 per cent, with no deaths. ' j Aiding Local Authorities. Dr. W. H. Harrison of the United States public health service, who has been helping . tho local authorities at Garden, yesterday stated that, in his opinion, eondit ions in that city would be almost back to normpj in the course j of ft few days. Dr. Harrison last night notified Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state i board of health, under whose direction i he has been, working, that he had tcn- ! dered his resignation to the public i health service because of ill health due j to the prolonged strain under which he has been laboring in connection with , the epidemic.' Dr. Beatty expressed regret re-gret at losing Dr. Harrison 's services, as his work considered remarkable. Dr. F. V. MeCiillieiiddy, U. S. army surgeon sur-geon on detached duty, succeeds Dr. Harrison at Ogdeu. "Tho situation looks very encouraging,'1 encourag-ing,'1 Dr. Beatty declared last night, ' and it may be possible soon to consider con-sider something definite in the matter ; -" of lifting the ban. The large number I of deaths occurring in the last few days I is attributable to the sudden increase j ' in the number of cases reported last week. But during tho last three or four days there has been a consistent decline ia'thn total of new cases developing, i! and this will inevitably be reflected in the tdiapc of a much smaller death list ji in the week to come." J Deaths Elsewhere. Four deaths -were listed yesterday from outlying .points in the state. These I were Tlyrum M. Olmstead, 54 years old, who died at Rav; Mrs. Lvdia Leek, -7, j at Thistle; Thomas Wright, 17, at Yel low Creek, and William Hopkin, 120. who died Tuesday at ( irantsville. Eleven new influenza cases were ad- i mitted to the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday, an in crease of two over the number admitted the previous dav. Practically all of these were from outside the post, principally from the student armv training corps at the University Uni-versity of Utah. Not a new case developed inside the Th ird war prison compound. This is the third day since the epidemic developed de-veloped inside the prison that there has not been a new case, and the complete and prompt check of the malady is at- tributed to the strict enforcement and observance of the req-nla-tions put into force by Colonel George L.' By ram, prison commandant. Masks "Are Ordered. Twenty cases of the disease developed last Sunday. That day the commandant command-ant put every prisoner and guard in masks, and they have worn them ever ince, changing the masks every four hours and washing out the worn ones in an antiseptic solution. This, with other precautions, consisting of frequent fre-quent washing of the hands, spraying of the throat and boiling of all dishes used, is believed to be responsible for ihe apparent check of the spread of the disease. There were no fi eat lis at the post yes- ' terdav from influenza. Salt Lake theatrical managers, including in-cluding moving picture show propric- : tors, held a meeting yesterday at the Pantages theater, which resulted in the appointment of a committee to visit the department and other store managers nf the city, for the purpose of discussing discuss-ing further measures to stamp out the epidemic that for almost two months has closed all local show houses. Some of the theatrical men contend that the closing of their playhouses is unfair, to long as other pines where people congregate are allowed to run. " A meeting of the city board of health will take place this morning at the public safety building. The influenza situation iu general will be discussed, and if any further action of any kind ' .-ippears desirable, such measures will be taken in the hope of speeding the ! end of the epidemic. |
