Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-10 | Page 11 | Hurry Work on Preparing Hospital for Emergency Use

HURRY WORK ON PREPARING HOSPITAL FOR EMERGENCY USE Deferring to t -e wishes rf Dr. T. B. Pe.-it:y, state health offh-er, Red i"ros of-ft'-m'is yesterday issued all speed sherul orders In preparing t)".e Ju'Ige. Mercy ho-piial ho-piial building for occupancy, A rorps 9 renovators t"d possession of t he pia- 4 yesterdny aftrnr.on ard promise has h'n given H;aJ the needed pa in tins and preparing pre-paring wilt be completed so that the place friay he opened for servi'-e FYl.jny. Kxern-tives Kxern-tives of Hoiy Cross hospital have offered to supply a considerable amount of hed-rtlnn hed-rtlnn and other needed eq lipment and Re.j Cross officers will purchase the- remainder. re-mainder. Yesterday Pr. Peatty, with Captstn J. N. Po'.ph, one of the field directors of militAry relief of the Red Cross, railed upon local representatives of the Palt Ivike chapter for a difnsslon of matters having; hav-ing; to do with plana of the R?d (ross In the campaign for the eradication of Spanish Span-ish influenza. Captain polph reached Kftlt I.ake yesterday on business connected I with office as a fie'd director of the Hed Cross. He has been in ciiarce of large military concentration camps in the east and during yesterday's conference woa able, unofficially, to make some important impor-tant suggestions concerning operations aealnst the disease. Dr. Beatty directed Ms efforts toward getting early action upon the opening of the Judge Merry hospital. He announced he had asked the management of all local hospitals to decline to acnept Influenza patients in their institutions after the Red Cros hoapitnl Is opened. The state health officer will makv an attempt to have the hospital made an Isolation place for this class of patlenta during the period of the threatened epidemic. Tha Red Cross department has been called upon by Dr. Realty to make up and supply ''OOO hospital ward masks, to be used by persons caring for and treating Influenza patients. Amelia palace, headquarters of the Salt Lake chapter of the Red Cross, has been ordered under quarantin and will he closed to all except a small group of executive, beginning this morning, for an Indefinite period. Official announcement announce-ment will be made when work may be resumed. '