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Show fK f n li wV VM I ti Mli ivi 1WI f ?! IP w rl H W I i t's H !;J Ml I UTAH PFWR1! s UL i 1 L Su! , i Health Authorities J Alarm and Cau-Residents Cau-Residents Against ;er of Epidemic. Oeath Reported in in; Four Utahns I in Army Camps; dy Is Spreading. i. j C;dr. ar.3 four riert'ls of cuies and army caniL-3 -7 ??:e atlnbuied yesterday r-iOant from S-anisii iiiHu-reared iiiHu-reared dy ami stats t'. ?:ese:;ce of the d. -: : Uk, Oz'.en, Murray. M;d-ar.d M;d-ar.d stvera! ot:-er com- " a.! arts o; t;e country a rapid spicid of the :: o Iran' cities stniient W.-z taken to get control In Fenhsv I ama schools, i2:.:.3 :iae been c!oed r.zs proniMtd. 0;naka : :V-'.e suspended ail schools or r.eetin- place to safe-: safe-: Malth. yiv; ' Dr. T. S. Eeatty. the , ;i of Coalville have ordered ail "55 there to cease and the s to be closed. The order 6,ow3 and churches ' other places where people Similar action. Dr. I"1 c'5":t' would immediately :. ' other point In the state Vf4 t0 ba any indication - spreading. 'S VICTIMS "AD DISEASE. Mr.ere hus oeen a tola, cf ': tr.ce -Monday, when ..' stopped there for J:. None of the cases is ., " P-'sic:an declares, but ?.rted yesterday included ; a traveling salesman. In "' Ba" of Sunnyside. at t.Ock.'orrJ, n,.. Prvate yA :,,0! Sandy, at Camp Mer-Cox Mer-Cox of Kain-iew, at fn Lake. Wash.: De-merlj De-merlj 0f Pr0V0i at Quan. .J1 that In Ogden citizens , a tetitior, for presenta-.,-" education asking the larto'is Bames ir, the . 'lln cornc in con-7 con-7 : '.,"er ln da,"-ins or tak-, tak-, Many parents are re- ,;r';"iy taken their chil- "v,H-n'J ' have Prot'lhited P'""re shows or ;' -rn?s. ;S WARNED . OFFICERS. W the city ami state ' t'e"i,a""U'r'3a-v 11 was co... '' ii. "?"'T of a" lidemic : n:z U':e was not K,,f- r,,, cxtnsive Quaran- " ' lh '"wt strin-' strin-' :'i:ort ,re'1Uirin Physicians - all fluspictou., cases. .; -iva;" to at once consult .., - the development of ' , u whi,-h ar ' "' -r.. tn M.m as those 1 a severe "' rdl a""C'.. sneezinc. " i Influeiir.ci e da,,.,.,,,, b, js .H:'-,7 ir ?ivc. ...h.-h . -,--L2'ieveln,jn, pr,,. Page Four.) DISEASE APPEARS II UTAH CENTERS (Continued from Fago One.) monta or other extremely serious ailments. ail-ments. Cases of influenza discovered In the Murray and !Midvale S'-ctinna are not serious, seri-ous, according to Ir. T. J. HowcUs, : county physician, i Pr. A. Z. Tanner of Kaysville yesterday 1 reported seven 1 cases a.t Fannin; tun. ! where a business man who had been traveling on a train containing a party of soldiers from West Virginia was suddenly sud-denly stricken with the nilment. The ma'ady soon spread to three other members mem-bers ,f the family, it Is s.tid, and was carried to the home of a neighbor who act. tl as nurse fur the members of the stT'ii'keu family. Dr. Tanner in quoted as saying that since the prt sence of influenza influ-enza In t he community has become known many other supposed cases have been reported to him, but that in each case investigation has shown them to be merely aggravated caes of rulds. Hi -ports cam--, to 1 'r. Bki t ty, Vtah health commissioner, ysteniay, of three different outbreak1 of trie o-called "Spanish f nfluenr.a," In l"t;ih. The disease, dis-ease, Lr. B'-auy .-ays, :s just ordinary Hit lue n 7a , which in past y-vars has enjoyed en-joyed the expressive titl-d of the "grip." Ui'. Heatty also transmitted to th-i city board of health a report that had reached him of an outbreak cf the dis-ao at 1. wc-t Sout h Temple stre-.-t, whero a hrp. of fort-ign extraction was said tf have brought the disease from an outride state. Sevt r;tl inn:atFa of the rooming house had been attacked, but the c.i.s- s had been isolated, and so far it was not known to have spread any further in the city. Third Case in Odcn. The third ca was from the Pee Memorial hospita1 in Os;de.n. a report which Or. Kealty at onco set about in-Vest in-Vest itat iliif. "The canes so far," nid Tr. Tit atty. "illustratri ihe importa've of reporting to the city health oincein immediately sua-p sua-p cteri rasi s. in ord r that proper pre-ca pre-ca ut ins may be ta ken. "fit" course in casts where t hft alarm become Kncral in a cim.iunit;.-, many cases of I'ulds will bo report d t hnt are not influenza. Vet even eui-h suspect ed cases should be r-'port'-d, it" fnr nothirij? else, because, of t he simple reasrm t Iih t th.) symptoms of colds and of lnfluvn.a are very similar. Tluy are mu. h more j aui.-raval'M in th ca.se of influenza, that ! is all. The aches are much more pain-j pain-j full and intense, arid the Keneral lassl-: lassl-: tud caused in nun'li i; renter. "I'nd-.iibtedly, if the malady reaches anything bl.o mi ejildi mic Mum, stps will Ik- taken to step public, imtherins of all kinds. And it should be noted that the time to prevent spread of infection by this method is before the epidemic has n-uf lied anything liko an lul'-use sta-j-e in a community. "The dung' v from the epidemic, if it comes, lit s not sc muc h in the disease itself, aa in the fad that, if th.. path nt does not take Kod car" of hlmsdf. pneumonia pneu-monia is likely to develop, with fatal consequent con-sequent cs." Red Cross (o Fiht. A tekenun received bv tho local Red r'rora last nitfht from Surgeon ( lenerat lilue of Ihe publu; s-Tvice. was to the effect that t lit- war council of the. National Na-tional Ued ( 'roHH had a pproprbi t "(i J7."7.-r"( J7."7.-r"( fnr Mm purposo of combat u (ho spread of tills di-j-'ase. Nurs s and em. r-t:ern-y , hospital supplies will be provided In localities where, such facilities are not supplied by loral a uthorii ies. A spc.ua I committer will he appointed to take ch.-ttk-e of the Ked C'iosh part Ipat Ion in the campalL'U. The hen It h conference In Salt I ike yestenlay was a Mended by Inspector (b orfre Shorten of (tjrdcii, who report, d that, there are no cas.-n there, tho onjv ono beintf thai of ii, M mail u,j,0 ,irfi thi-re late Thursday niiflit. KolNiu-lnp the nmftiiifr. and speaktni; directly of the situation in thin cifv, 1 ir. Samuel G. i'aul, city health plivsician, said: "Kvery few years this disease spreads over the world like a pra irte fire a rid quarantine, will not eheclt it, for by Mm time a patient Is sick enough to Kf to bed and summon a physician, lie has spread H as much as he can. While he is In bed he can not. spread the malady, a nd bv the Mine lie is well oiioiiKh to bo up and about, lie. Is unable to spread It. Therefore, There-fore, all the da in a wti ho ca n do to the general public he does before ho takes to his bed, .Individual cases will he isolated." iso-lated." Otfdcn Mnrt Victim. .loh n 1 loci ii, -who died in cden. is a natlw of ljnaha. !.' ea i a of ai;e, n nd a traveling represent a live of a dry fcoods concern. Me. was in Mm 1 ee hospital for six days and was attended by Mr. Kdwln I. J : i-'l i, who pro noun cerf his ilea t li due io influenza and acute, nephriMs. .Mr. M ou i ii r. survived by his widow and Miiee children. The body was sent to itmahn la -I uiidil in a heimcticallv wealed caskei , .Ncah of Mm fba th at ( 'amp Merrltt, . .1.. of Kduln Mahhiulsl of Sandy, reached his i -ela t i ; liere vc: I erda v. I 'a hl'iulst died mi Thursdav. Me was 'a riativo of Sand v. b-un on ( h-loh.-r 17, 1 Me enllaled lii ho armv in .lum a rnl left for H.-rtvIco In Jul v. 1 In Im mii- m-d bv hla larenlM arid id' tms. 'i he hody Is bem; M.-nt lo I'tali f..r burial. I Mvpii IcheM frmii ( "ami) irn nt, Itock-for-i. III., tell or the death thro of levari I ne;. of ; 'im ny.'ide, follow I an a 1 1 ack f of influenza, which developed into pneumonia. pneu-monia. Two nephews of Dr, O. K. Hansen of Truvo died October 2 from pneumonia following Spanish influenza, at training camps. Herald Cox. 22, son of Amasa Cox of Fatrview, died at Camp Lewis. Mr. Co:; haa gone to Camp Lewis to bring the bndv home. Dr. Hansen will aeom-panv aeom-panv the body from Provo to Fairview. The other nephew is Dellslc Hansen, son of Joseph Hansen of Preston. Idaho, formerly of Provo. He died at Quantico, I Va. The body will be eent to Preston. Idaho. Both of the boys wero born at Fairview. No word was received from Jess Oren Thatcher of Salt Lake yesterday, and as several davs have passed since his mother. moth-er. Mrs. Belle Thatcher, was notified of the seriousness of his condition, it is believed be-lieved by relatives and friends that he Is successfully fighting off tho attack. He is at Camp I'evens, Mass. |