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Show Mil TAKES STILL FIRMER GRIP Spread of Disease Throughout Through-out City and State Is Reported. BUSINESS IS HALTED All Branches of Industry Are Hampered; Further Deaths Listed. One hundred and one new cases of Spanish influenza were reported to the city board . of health today. Influenza Influ-enza Is Interfering with the efficiency ef-ficiency of many lines of business and Industry in Salt Lake and Utah, according ac-cording to the state health authorities. Many employees grow suddenly 111 and It is Impossible to replace them without warning;. Deaths are becoming more frequent fre-quent throughout the state, according to Dr. t. i:. Beatty. In order to be in touch with the entire Situation Dr. Beatty has requested that all health officials and doctors in the state report all deaths to the state board Of health at once. All details should be forwa rded regarding the progress of the epidemic. In Salt Iake the c'ty board of health reported Ihe situation growing worse. Many children are becoming afflicted with the disease and mere babies are falling victims of pneumonia, superinduced by the malady. Several deaths were reported by mldaf turnoon yesterday. Vera IJohl, 15 months of age. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric lJohl, died at the Judge Mercy hospital hos-pital of the disease. The mother could not find the father, who Is a miner, and she was left to bear her loss alone in a local hotel. The father had visited the hospital the previous day, but could not bo found last night. The remaining child Is seriously ill with the disease at the Judge Mercy hospital. Woman and Niece Die. ttAXiXfi Louise TUckok. aged 33 years, of 56 West Crystal street, and her niece. Clair Jane Hickok. aged 6 months, of 2722 Edison street . died yesterday morning morn-ing of Spanish influenza. The child's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hickok. are seriously ill with the malady. Mrs. L a ura Hickok is survived by her "husband, Fred Hickok, and two sons. Ralph, aged 6 years, and Bert, 4 months . old. The men are brothers. Frederick Edward Lorenz, aged 6 years, son of George A. and Vera Lorenz, 969 South First West, died at a local hospital hospi-tal of influenza. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Mews of 1 he dea ih 01" H. H. Thomas, Jr., sou of Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Thomas. ... Highland drive, of influenza, was received .yesterday from the post hospital, hos-pital, Wichita Falls. Texas. J. Wallace, a traveling salesman of Salt l-Jike. was reported to have died of influenza at St. Anthony, Idaho, Thursday.. Thurs-day.. . , James Hobbs. Jr.. died at the Judge Mi rcy hospital yesterday of Spanish influenza. in-fluenza. Robert J. Shields, manager of the Red i'ioss. stated last night (hat the demand for doctors and nurses was increasingly urgent. He said that wonderful patriotism patriot-ism was being .displayed ,by many women in Salt lnke. who had left their homes during the' night to nurse the sick and answer emergency calls. About seventy-five teachers from the East West high schools, the L. D. S. higtl school. Westminster college and the University of Utah reported at the West high school today. Dr. Beatty, Dr. Samuel Sam-uel G. Paul of the city board of health and Mr. Shields addressed them and called for volunteers to nurse the sick. Half the number volunteered at once. Dr. Paul informed the teachers that there was little lit-tle possibility of the schools being sl-lowed sl-lowed to open for six weeks to come. Aid in Nursing. In many cases b teacher is assigned to accompany a trained nurse where families fam-ilies are afflicted, and she does valiant service in cooking and providing nourish-menl nourish-menl for the family and supplementing the work of the regular nurse, according accord-ing to Mr. Shields. Judge Mercy hospital issued a call for four more trained nurses last night. Mr. Shields was at a loss where to secure t hem. but sta ted that the need must be supplied. About fifty cases are now In th hospital and every member of the sia ff is kept extremely busy. Because the influenza epidemic has struck the operating force of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company to the extent that about 20 per cent of the force is absent wtih th disease, officials of the company hae issued an appeal to ihe public to co-operate with the company in reducing unnecessary phone business as much as possible. Hurts Phone Service. District Manager C. C. Campbell announced an-nounced yesterday that the company is striving to handle business with all the dispatch possible, but the prevalence of the disease with the general quarantine regulations is forcing people to remain at home more than us'al and this has brought aboul greater use of the telephone. tele-phone. This fact, coupled with the decrease de-crease in operating force through disease, has brought the company face to face with a serious situation. Manager Campbell announces that the phone company will give first consideration, considera-tion, of course, to fire and like emergency emer-gency matters; doctor culls, Red Cross calls and the official business calls, -but it asks that the public eliminate all possible pos-sible unnecessary phoning. As a means of combating spread of-the of-the influenza nmong operators the management man-agement of the local exchange yesterday took up the matter of having all opera-tors opera-tors wear gauze masks while at woik. Park City Quarantined. Park City declared a strict quarantine last night in a desperate effort to prevent pre-vent the disease from reaching the city. Park City Is said to be the only town of Its size in the state where Spanish' influenza has not become prevalent. The J - authorities announced Inst night that Salt Lake citizens who had urgent business in the town must first ?erure a permit io enter and then they will have to pass, an examination. Dr. T. J, How ells of the. county hospital hos-pital ?aid last, night thHt two of Ihe conntv hospital nurses li?.d volunteered to Ko to the judge Mercy hospital. He said that all caB-R In the county were being-reported being-reported and that four deaths thad occurred oc-curred in the county sir.ee the epidemic btarted. CI eon Roberts, 2 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Whltnev !v. Roberts, died of influenza in Bountiful during the week. Funeral services will be hold this afternoon after-noon at .1 o'clock at the family residence. resi-dence. Two other members of the family fam-ily are neriously 111. That the voters of Salt Li ke county may be subject to no risk of Infection , on election day, November o. Thomas I Homer, county clerk and recorder, yester- day oddressed a communication to Dr. j T. B. Beatty. health commissioner of rtah. suggesting rhat Instead of holding I the flection in the various precincts in I private or public houses, they be held in I tents erectsd at tbe plates designated lor holding the elections, and lhat only one or two persons besides two of .the fudges, ' be permitted to be In the tent aj one tun;. |