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Show INFLUENZA SPREADING IN SALT LAKE CITY 10 Deaths in City Yesterday; Yester-day; 40 Have So Far Died Here. MASKS ARE ADVISED Warning Issued by Health Officials; Malady Spreads in the State. One thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine seventy-nine tapes of Spanish influenza have been reported to the city board of health since October 10. Health authorities estimate 1 hat as many more cases exist which have not been reported. One hundred new 1 cases were reported yesterday. Ten deaths occurred In Salt Lake yesterday yes-terday as a result of the epidemic. This is the largest number of deaths reported In one day from influenza. The total J number of deaths occurring in Salt Lake; BiHot the malady became prevalent Is forty. "Protect yourself" was the warning Is-1 sud last night by both the state and city health officials to every citizen, following fol-lowing a check of the progress of the disease. dis-ease. Only through individual caution can 1 he malady be checked, according to the medical authorities. The wearing of the masks is strongly advised upon every occasion oc-casion where there is the slightest danger dan-ger of exposure to the malady. The following list is the death roll taken I In Salt I.ake yesterday by Spanish Influ- J enza: Michael Grenovleh. 42 years of age, at a local hospital; Mrs. Rachel Wills Del La Mare, 30 vears of age. wife of Ensign j It. G. De U Mare; Roy Knott, -60 East I Third South street; William Arthur j Thomas, 25 years of age, :J54 Milan ave- 1 uue; Mai' tin Morton Marsh, 3-f years of age. 6G."i South Eighth West street, at a local hospital: Henry .Schaelling, 29 years of age, A'Z Jeremy street; James A. Paddock. Pad-dock. V2H North Eighth West street; Amelia Josephine Davis, 2i years of age, 448 Goshen street, and in fa nt ; Marvin Butler, -105 Second avenue, S years of age, sou of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butler. Both Parents Die. The death of Henry Schaelling at 43 Jeremy street leaves three children orphans, or-phans, as their mother died Thursday of influenza. The children have influenza and are heartbroken over the loss of both parents within a few days. James Pad-. Pad-. dock.who died at 12S North Eighth West street, was a native of Modena. Me was on the way to visit his daughter in Wyoming, Wyo-ming, whom he had not seen since childhood, child-hood, when he was suddenly taken ill with influenza and died In Salt Lake. The Rod Cross emergency hospital now has fifty-one patients and is well prepared pre-pared to handle any emergency which may arise. No deaths occurred in that institution yesterday. Following the request made yesterday by Dr. T. R. Beatty, state health commissioner, commis-sioner, Salt Lake barbers will wear gauze masks while serv ing patrons until the epidemic epi-demic has subsidetl. J. W. Peek, president presi-dent of local 277, Journeymen Barbers' International In-ternational union, issued the order last night. According to Robert J. Shields, it is impossible im-possible to keep up with the demand for gauss masks in Salt Lake and surrounding surround-ing cities. More volunteers are needed to engage in their manufacture at once. Women of the city who have had nursing experience or instruction are requested to volunteer in nursing Influenza patients. According to Mr. Shields, employers shoti'd grant their employees leave of absence ab-sence with full pay when they volunteer ' for such work. Mr. Shields declared yesterday yes-terday that many young women who have husbands at the front expect the Red Cross to care for them when they fall wounded, and yet they are not coming forward to aid the Red Cross in caring for urgent cases in Salt Lake. . Special gatherings of all kinds were forbidden in Utah yesterday during the period of the epidemic by order of Dr. Beatty. Dean w. W. Fleetwood was appointed ap-pointed assistant manager of the Red Cross emergency work. Cases in Hospital. Seventeen cases were admitted to the post hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. This is an increase in the daily list. No deaths occurred at the hospital yesterday. yester-day. Onhir has declared a strict quarantine against everybody. No one may he admitted ad-mitted into the town on any pretext. The disease has not appeared in the town and the authorities are determined to keen out everyone until the epidemic Is passed. Four deaths occurred in Ogden yesterday yester-day and ail Increase in the number of 'uses of Spanish influenza was noted. Henry Clay Smith. 06 years of age: Kenneth Ken-neth Evans Goates. 10 years of age. son of Mr. and M rs. Charles Goates. and T. Usbyima, a Japanese, died of the disease yesterday in Ogden. Two patients have been received in the Ogden emergency hospital. Miss E. L. Swainston is In charge and Miss A. Titley is night superintendent. The hospital will be glad to receive gifts of material and nightshirts, pneumonia, jackets, flannel blankets and a number of screens to "be placed between cots. Three soldiers were taken from the union depot to the Dee hospital yesterday morning, one in a serious seri-ous condition. Mrs. Nellie Barrett Cole, wife of Samuel Parley Cole of Osden, d;ed at Evanston, Wyo.. yesterday of influenza. in-fluenza. Jane Shepherd Xorberg. 45- vears of age. wife of Hyrum Xorberg, died a: Taylors-ville Taylors-ville of Influenza yesterday. She is survived sur-vived by her husband .and fiye children. chil-dren. Several thousand pamphlets containing instructions in preventing and com ha ting influenza will be distributed by the Red Cross in Sal: Lake today. Mr. Shields announced last njght that 1 he gauze room at the Amelia palace would be open all day today, the hours being from 9:"0 this morning until $:?,Q this evening. Workers are urged to attend, at-tend, as the need for assistance is impera- tfve. |