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Show Anti-Influenza Rules Have ! General Observance in City jOne Arrest for Alleged Violation Reported; No j Compulsory Mask-wearing at Present; 2 13 i New Cases Recorded; Four Deaths. GK. Ki:. L o:o',- ;i. c- u. the arHi-ii);'Ii:i:;iz:t arHi-ii);'Ii:i:;iz:t rules an rt'Uiii.Ll ion.s, as ;l f i".-' L :'iri'd ami u'Ti.'es, put in:o c'Tt'i'l yeU-ru:iy, was tiio orfluv ! nf ilif day, only one a mist LeiiiK j im;,..! inr i-Ii-'-'U violation of tho orders j of thr j-taio boar, of health. Tiio arrest J was L;al of LYancis G. Luke, who was j in mUv' I ;i 1- !ol L.i- it-ad,) uaricrs on I he cliarn'j tli:il lie iiaj sr-vcal km'Is worliiiiLj in lii.s olTicii Idler tha n ! :") p. m. Tlia l no i 'o;n i nilsory masking ori I . nance is to In; iKiss-xl, a: least for the time he-in.u, he-in.u, was hario1,! last niiit. fohowin a s; ici'ial m'. ; ij m of the ci ; y boartl oi" la-alth, at which r. T. Li. I'.ealty, slate licali Ii conimissioin.'i'. ,,;1s prcscuL. 'Lho .-pc.-ial session o; iho hcaltii bonrri fol-1'iwiil fol-1'iwiil a special nieclin' of the city coni-n: coni-n: issioiii is, at w h i'. h the com nils.-:i"nei"S a (Lip led a n.voi u; ion pin ti jm I he proposed n-milaiii.n n to the health ot'H'-ers. The eft'ieai-y "f the mask as an influenza pre-i pre-i veil i ve was uone f n Lu tiioroui; hi y, with 1 ll-.e resnk that m.1i J v. -tea It y and i he l e:;y health offii-fi's came io lac eniiehi-! eniiehi-! s,on lhal the proposal 'should Ijl- lield in ; aijcyaaec for sc. u-al tia.ys. Held in Abeyance. 1: is iioped licit the new opening aji-.l closing and ipiaran I i tie orders may in the nu-aiUime ln-in about the desired feull, thus obvia I in.n t iie neessit y of ex per I -mejuiii wi;h masks, the utility of which -lias been st rfin ly i j uesf ioneil "by heal th authorities in nianv cities where thoy have lieeu used. "Opinions on the subject of 'maskincr I :.;v widrly at variance." said I r. I'.ealty. i '"and fir-t-hand in format ion. coming to no.' Lh:'oi;yh I T, W . !L Harrison and ( 'laj'ejvij ;. Kd wards of the l.'tuted States public li. -a Ith service. L ad me to think fh;;t. wliile the mask can profitable be iisi'd in lb-- si-i; room, its general tt.se in jjiiblie is iiol advisaeio. Doctors' Work Praised. Drs. Harrison a::d li L.vards wen sent j 'a. re from San Fuummvo souio time a.0 ami h:u f done excellent work. They were ' in t.:e coast eity wiien aiaskin was made compulsory th.-rc and cnnse'iueni ly bad every v ipoia u n i ; y lo walcli the rxperi-rcen'r. rxperi-rcen'r. Their opinhui ap'ears to lie thai the. mask is ot'rVci i e only when changed cUht or ten times a day, and that wiien i: is no: so el.auued it bccunies'a menace to the health of the wearer, rather than a protection. San Francisco's Experience. "Kur instance, it is well known that in San i-Ya in Neo tie- a veraye man wearing a mask to comply with the law removed it from his face and luinu' it on the hack of his neck as soon as he ant out of siu-ht of a policeman. It Is alsn -well known that most mi n wearins: masks had holes cut into them to sLick their ci.ea i-,s a nd cigarettes Lln'Oucrh, .o that, while ! la v- -Were technically complying with the law, they were yet defeating its purpose. "in my judgment, it will lie best, 1o wa teh the result of t iie reula tiona pH i'llo effeei. yes I i.-rda y . and if these are found to be insu ftii lent, we can still experiment ex-periment i 1 1 1 masks la t it oh.'' Thai tin1 inlb.iet za epidemic is for from beinu' under control in Salt Ixike became evident last nibii v. V.en Hie daih' report of the citv In-all h Of: i cr; disclosed the fact : 1 hat o no .v a of the malady had been reported during the day. Tins niilll-1 niilll-1 ,er. 1 iowi er. was said I o include perhaps per-haps a dozen cases witieii should have been repotted several days; ajio. Death Rol! Is Four. The local death list yesterdav- included Herbert Tiioian. ears old: Kred Smith, :ls, assisian! cash lei- of the National Na-tional City bank: Irs. Lbio l-iaker Anderson, An-derson, and Mrs. I'ohie Joimson, 2'. Six:- pcr.-ons applied at the city emer- , lion wil'i the Leary auti-inthien7.a serum, which is heitm J4i"en free lo all persons applying fur t ia I t ea I men ( . The death of I'.. l. Leane was reported from Salt Lake county and the body will be sent to Heaver, Tub, today fr interment. in-terment. The isolat ion hospital a t I'ort Douglas yesterday reported no deaths and no new cases. Following 1 1 ie la rue i nerea se in the number of new ca;-es reported, J loner t .1. Shields, manager of the loea! lied Cross head, ua rt crs, la st niu h I an nounced , I that he had arranged for the t ra nsfurma.- j lion of the "eon t indent ward" at 1 no eountv hospital into an emergen,-.- hospital hos-pital for tlte treatment of inlluenza patients. pa-tients. In-. I'anl, city physician, has been asked Iu assign three, city nurses to look after the sulfcrers, and has agreed to do so. The ward has been fumigated and will ho ready for occupancy this mornhi.u', it is announced. Appeal for Nurses. ( "The appeals for nurses continue." said Air. Shields, "and we arc still unable un-able to keep up with the demand. We are hoping that some of tl.e teachers, who furmci lv olunteered (heir services, will do so usain. Any of them wishing to help out should register a t t he Bed Cross 1icad 1 darters immediately." Several irls, emplovoes of two larue department stut es, es tenia y answered the n n peal fur additional ohm leer nui'ses. registering with the Ked Ci'oss. They were at once assigned to cases whero they were urirently needed. Bemands for 1 " 1 o huzo masks, for use I in si(.k rooms, were made upon the Ked I Cross yesterday, hinO tf them hem- fnr-i fnr-i nished. Chiefly, the calls came from o'tit-1 o'tit-1 sude points, but (hose made locally foic-j foic-j shadowed the serious relapse that be- came evident when t'ne report of the 1 j hoard of liealtii vas made public last j nllit. Situation in State. Thai the situation in the state, outside of Salt I ike is not im pi o i iijj; to a ny ( unsidcrable 1 xleiil. was i mlii. ;i (e,I by reports re-ports received yesterday 1 rotn many sections. sec-tions. Belie viuj;- that rondi t ions wa rra utcd diMStie. action, the county commis-hoiiers and the Inalth unthoWlies 01' Wasatch conn! y yesterday declared a iptai amine covering the entire coimty. It was announced an-nounced that no one would he allowed to enter Hie county until further notice. The city councils of s veral coimnunitit. s within ihe eountv nr t later and indorsed 1 the action of the county and health authorities, au-thorities, it is said. heaths at O-nL-n numbered two, ,ohn larsn: a. nd Vivian Ca mpbch tllccum) a n: LO 1 lie ravav;.- of the ina lady. h i !c ne. , cases found during tin.: day totaled seen-i'-eiL-lit, aceordine; to the report issued by the health office last Pi.L;hL l.a ion i-fj oi t 1 rl thirty new eases, vvhich brought liic total number under treatment there to JaO. one. death, that of John Hool'soii, Jr., aed l'i jeurs, WikSj regie--, tered. hopan listed tlie death of Joseph "Bit hell. 12 year. old. who died after an illness of several days. The report did not state the number of new eases, found there. Breaks Out Anew. L'riee. in Carbon eounty, which had tin: epidemic apparently stamped out, yesterday yes-terday reported that it had broken out afresh, and Unit twenty-two new eases have developed. The rec-nt. peace eeL -brat if u is lienor aily blamed for t he renewed re-newed outbreak. Heber City reuistered the death of Airs. Alicia Alurdock. 27, y ars old: J '1 ovo. ihat of Samuel A.Mhnr rriiu'-;:ood. 15': f.ake-'iew, f.ake-'iew, that f,f Bay Johnston, and Brig-liam Brig-liam City, that of John lh Stohl. The situatin; at Kureka, where J.n,'. W. H. J(arrisfu 01 liu- public health service has her-u in cha rc. has shown marked improvement in the. last wee);, according to hr. l-leat.ty, state h.eallh eoniini:;s-ioi!..-r. 'Faireka. is line t ieii My fr.e from the ma lad y nnv," 1 tr. Bea Uy s t id last nitjht. "and the eineiyenc- i'osnital Cnc'-e has be. -11 closed. Tn. Harrison, who has been very successful at J-hmka. will be sent 10 Linden today to take char";? of tin- J'ilit against tiie epidemic in that eity." Changes in Rules. S.; v.-ra 1 slight e)rinrey in Fie t '";iiu-and '";iiu-and clesinfj; rules wt re made vesteul iv. It ? 1 uovtjoed that Krocevics and 111, at ma rkut w ill open from N a. in. until V.l't p. m, on Saturdays, instead of tlos.-in:-' at. S p. m., as had been announced previously. In line with the decision of the. state board of health lo stop assemblages of thre-- or more persons d.irii: the pro -va iliiijL' epidemic of in 1 "htenza . eighteen (heeks weie at rested at r.L'.", West Second Scutl; fureet Lust niKhr bv Julian Kih-v 1 . li. Claylon, J. E. Tavlcr and B. B Vatls of the pfdiee attivire deoartment, on a ehar-.e of iolaliny; th,. s;, to fuar-autine fuar-autine law and on the additional charge I 01 gambling. The m.-n were all released on S.'.n bail each, and the gamekeeper put I up Sl.ili to insure his appearance jn court |