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Show tinue to send patients who are afflicted with a more contagious disease. Eighty new cases were reported to the city board of health today. Dr. Paul said that there wore probably prob-ably twice as many cases of Spanish, influenza in-fluenza in the city than had been reported, re-ported, because many patients were too ill to report their cases, and others did not realize how necessary it was io do so. He stated that this omission was one of the greatest causes of the continued spread of the disease. Fifty more beds were supplied Judge Mercy hospital by Fort Douglas yesterday yester-day and the Red Cross purchased the necessary bedding. Forty patients are now in the hospital, and the staff is finding it hard to keep up with the influx, according to Robert Shields, general gen-eral manager of the Red Cross. Mr. Shields has issued an appeal to the doctors doc-tors of the city who have office nurses to allow them to go out on influenza cases. Mr. Shields stated last night that there were dozens of nurses in Salt Lake who had proved themselves slackers by refusing refus-ing to attend influenza cases. He said that he had a long list of Salt Lake families fami-lies in which every member was suffering with tne disease, and no nurses could be obtained in scores of cases. Many people, he said, were taking up the time of the Red Cross with questions such as inquiries abou t sending Christmas Christ-mas parcels to the soldiers when every minute counted and might mean the saving sav-ing of a human life. Deaths Reported. Lola Brown , 1 year of age , dau gh ter of William J. and Henrietta Brown, died at a local hospital yesterday of influenza. James J. O'CarroI, 42 years of age, died of influenza at a local hospital yesterday. Charles Herbert Sutton, 26 years of age, died at 1:20 tf. m. yesterday at 613 East Fifth South street of pneumonia induced by influenza. Sarah Spatnhewer Schall-ing, Schall-ing, wife of Henry Schalling, 43 Jeremy street, died of pneumonia following influenza. in-fluenza. She is also survived by three children. William L. Jacobs of the university uni-versity training detachment, died' at the post hospital of influenza yesterday. Roy P. Nelson, son of S. R. Nelson of Randolph, Ran-dolph, Utah also of the training detachment, detach-ment, died at the post hospital of pneumonia pneu-monia which followed influenza. He was the eldest of nine children. Mrs. E. T. Barton, wife of Lieutenant E. T. Barton of Camp Fremont, Cal., died at a local hospital of the dread disease. Lieu. tenant Barton is too ill with the influenza at Camp Fremont to be able to attend the funeral. Other deaths are constantly being be-ing reported. Three deaths in as many days have occurred oc-curred in Brigham City and Boxelder county. Wesley Larsen, 31 years of aa;e, d ied Monday nigh t of Spanish i nfluenza. He contracted the disease while on a visit to Salt Lake, but believed that he had only the symptoms of a cold. He died suddenly, in spite of the fact that medical assistance was obtained and every effort made to save his life. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna Larsen. an S-year-old son and several brothers ,and sisters. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the residence. Martyr to Duty. Mrs. Sarah Jones Sprague of Hannah. Wyo., died at the home of her parents at Honeyville, Friday night, while on a visit. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Jones, and was born at Henefer, Utah, January 11, 1897. Funeral services were held at Honeyville yesterday. Dr. P. R. Merrill, one of the prominent physicians of Boxelder county, it develops, de-velops, w:as a martyr to duty, as he contracted con-tracted Spanish influenza while nursing patients suffering with the disease, and died at his hospital at Tremonton, Friday. The body was sent to Logan for burial. New towns reporting the disease to Dr. Beatty yesterday were Ferron, May-field, May-field, Goshen, Paragonah, Parawan, Gunnison, Gun-nison, Milford, Pleasant View, Dcwey-ville, Dcwey-ville, Layton, Syracuse. Eureka, Moab, Levan, Payson and Iewiston. Tho Utah Public Health association sent out two trained nurses to travel separately through Utah, instructing in the care of Spanish influenza patients pa-tients today. Several towns are said to have cases of the 'disease, but on account ac-count of their isolation have not had the opportunity to report them. It is estimated by the health authorities of the state that more than eighty towns arc afflicted. Reports to Beatty. Dr. Beatty stated last night that Provo had reported two deaths yeterday; Tre-mont Tre-mont one death ; Morgan, 160 cases ; W end over, one-fourth of the population Suffering with the disease. Dr. Beatty ordered that all schools and public meeting meet-ing places be closed in the state during the period of the epidemic. He stated that although there were a few towns which had so far escaped the disease, the precaution of forbidding public gatherings gath-erings was a measure of protection. All persons in Bingham eniering slores are required to wear face masks. Bingham Bing-ham is well organized and has taken over the Commercial club an another building for an emergency hospital. At Garfield, the hospital is filled to overflowing, overflow-ing, but the town is organized to meet the situation. Several cases of influenza have suddenly sud-denly appeared in Ephraim. Dr. A. J. Nielson, the only physician in the town, has been confined to his bed with the d isease for t lie past week . A t presen t the situation appears to be well in hand and all public meeting places are closed. Bert Atkinson of Holliday died of influenza influ-enza last night. INFLUENZA GRIPS TOWN OF HENEFER (Continued from Page One.) started in 1890 in the United States, and that at that time there was not the panic which exists now. He said that each year there were places in the United States where the population were afflicted af-flicted with influenza. Continues to Spread. In Salt Uako, the disease continues to spread and hundreds of cases have developed de-veloped in pneumonia with severe symptoms. symp-toms. Ogden reported six deaths yesterday, yester-day, and now has 618 cases. Nurses are falling out of the ranks of the workers, themselves afflicted with the disease. Dr. Samuel Paul announced hist night that it was apparent that the epidemic would last for at least six weeks more. He declared that doctors all over the world are at sea in handling the disease. Ho stated that all restrictions were proving a failure and that in order to enforce them to the letter it would become necessary to declare martial law. He deplored the fact that doctors are sending patients afflicted with Spanish influenza to t he regular hospitals. He stated that they would never send a smallpox patient, and yet they con- |
