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Show fEATTY TO 1 REPRESENT 0. S, DURING EPIDEMIC Named Acting Assistant Surgeon for Utah of Public Health Service of the Government. Twenty-six Die in Salt Lake in Six Days; 85 New Cases Reported; Post Is Quarantined. jSpanlsh influenza has spread to prac-tically prac-tically every community in the state, ac- j cording to Br. T. B. Beatty. Twenty. si.v deaths have occurred in .Salt Lake as icsult .of the epidemic within the past nys. Yesterday eighty-five new r-ascf Were reported to the city board of health and five deaths. Ogden reported three deaths and sixty new cases. Nineteen Nine-teen new cases were admitted to the post hospital yesterday and one death occurred there. National h-ecognition oame yesterday to Dr. Beatty, who has been In charge of the influenza preventive measures in Utah, in the form of telegram from Surgeon General Blue. Representing" the public health service of the government. Cieneral Blue asked Dr. Beatty if he woulj accept appointment as acting assistant surgeon of the department and assume control of the situation In this state as the direct representative of the government. govern-ment. The tender of the position Indicates the intention of the federal government to assume charge of the epidemic in each affected 3tatc under the powers of senate bill No. 63, which passed earlier this week and In which are appropriated sums for the prevention and control of disease", and makes necessary appropriations for carrying on the work. EMPOWERED TO NAME OTHER ASSISTANTS. in his new .capacity Dr. Beatty is empowered em-powered to appoint physicians available as acting assistants for this state and to take such preventive steps as In his Judgment Judg-ment may be necessary for the control of influenza in Utah. The national plan provides for a mobile organization under the Immediate direction direc-tion of tho public health service represen-latlvcs represen-latlvcs working in close co-ordination with state health authorities. Such acting act-ing assistants as may be named or nurses las may be appointed will be . available i or duly in any section of the state where yv are needed. Any volunteer medical yNk'e corps which may be at work h 1)1 co-Operate with the new organization, and wherever possible trained nurses are to be provided by tho Red Cross, which will also render assistance In the furnishing of equipment and supplies. The preventive measures which have already been adopted In Utah are in strict accord with the indicated wishes of the government, which in turn has , taken cognizance of the Seriousness of the situation in the nation. Dr. Beatty will today confer with Governor Bamberger relative to the organization of the corps in this state in accordance with the request re-quest of General. Blue. TEACHERS AID MANY FAMILIES. Salt Lake teachers are doing splendid work in caTIng for the families in Salt Lake and surrounding towns Which have been afflicted with Spanish influenza, ac-. ac-. cording to Robert J. Shields, manager of Ihe Red Cross. Twenty cases of extreme need havo been supplied with teacher-nui"ses. teacher-nui"ses. "Without hesitation these girls have -one bjvccly about their task in a high-"Hyigcnt high-"Hyigcnt manner." Mr. Shields said ' 1 '-s :.f "K saved their efforts. Ujjp "l-ast night several mor. l-Mchrrs vol -juteered and came to the public safety H wilding for Instructions. Every avail- able tiachcr from ihe Unuivcrsity of (Continued on Page Eight.) BEATTY TO REPRESENT U.S.Dli EPIDEMIC (Continued from Page One.) Utah, the L. D. S. 'university and all the public schools hay been requested 1o report re-port at. tho West high school at 4 p. in. today to receive assignments to influenza influ-enza cases. FIVE DEATHS ARE REPORTED IN CITY. "It is my Judgment that the disease is rapidly spreading and we are receiving urgent ur-gent calls for help about every half hour. I predict that the wearing of masks as a safeguard from contagion will become universal uni-versal in the crowded portions of town and no better protection could be afforded af-forded against the disease." The five deaths reported yesterday were: Mrs. Albert Hills died at the Judge Mercy hospital. Her residence was 31 Harmony iplace. John Whitthaus, 39 years old, died at his residence, 106 West Fourth South street. Ho was a native of I 'rice. Uta.li. Hubert G. Bush, 20 years old, a member of the University of Utah training detachment, died at the post hospital. hos-pital. Caleb W. Perry, 26 years of age, 104 East Eighth South, died at his home. G. R. Bonn. 35' years of age, died at a local hospital last night. J. Fred Anderson has placed the Judge Mercy hospital in efficient order and forty patients are being cared for. Three deaths have occurred at the institution since it opened for influenza caes, while five patients pa-tients have teen discharged as cured. According Ac-cording to Mr. Shields, the hospital would be glad to accept jellies, jams and fruit juices for the USe Of convalescent nn- charge of the hospital, which will have twenty cots. Advices were received in Ogden yesterday yester-day of the- death of Chester Morris, brother of Edward Morris, which occurred at Binghamton, New York, of pneumonia. Morris was born in Ogden twenty-five years ago. Tie had been on the stage for the past fifteen years as a dancer. Consternation prevailed yesterday in the courtroom of Henry C. Iund, justice of the peace, when a witness admitted that her physician had ordered her to bed as being afflicted with Spanish influenza. The courtroom is to be fumigated this morning: before being: used. tients. Sanitary rugs are. also needed and the owners who donate them are requested request-ed to place their names upon them. The emergency hospital ambulance was kept busy yesterday, .taking influenza cases to the Judge Mercy hospital and transporting other patients to their homes from the places where they were stricken. In several cases persons became suddenly sudden-ly ill while visiting relatives or friends and were unable to return to their homes without assistance. Nearly half a hundred homes reported new cases of the disease yesterday to the city board of health and it was estimated es-timated that the final check would prove that more new cases ,had developed than on the preceding day. Doctors Overworked. Dr. Beatty reported thait very physician in the state was overworked and that in many towns they had themselves them-selves fallen martyrs to their work and had died of the disease. He stated it is impossible to estimate the exact number of cases in the state, but the number is constantly increasing. Dr. Beatty is exerting ex-erting every effort to prevent the further spread of the malady and is endeavoring lo keep in touch with every town in the state which. has become afflicted with influenza in-fluenza . Dr. Harvey M. Vance of Pleasant Grove died yesterday of pneumonia superinduced superin-duced by Spanish influenza. He had practiced prac-ticed medicine in Pleasant Grove for sixteen six-teen years. When I he epidemic developed devel-oped in that town he answered every oall until at last he fell a victim to the disease. He was born in Betnent, jit May 3L 1878. He graduated from the vaoco in jjiiiguaiu. Bingham reports that everything is being be-ing done to protect the public' from infection. in-fection. The -situation is said to be well in hand and the spread of the disease has not been rapid. Virl Southworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Southworth, died in Farmington yesterday of influenza. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p. m. No new-cases new-cases have been reported in Farmington. Syracuse reported but one new case and Dayton reported that no new cases had developed. Delta has established an emergency hospital, according to Dr. Beatty. J. Iceland Dewey, principal of the puhlic school at Salem, died yesterday of Spanish Span-ish influenza. Dr. Beatty is an earnest advocate "of the practice adopted in many communities, communi-ties, of the clerks in stores and persons who similarly come into contact with the public indiscriminately, wearing masks as measures of self protection. The Red Cross has been authorized to respond re-spond to all requests presented for gauze masks, and Dr. Beatty yesterdav recommended recom-mended to employees of some of the big stores in Salt Lake City that thev adopt the custom. It would serve a two-fold purpose, in the belief of the state health commissioner. commis-sioner. It would assist in protecting the clerk from chance contact with the breath of a carrier of tlie influenza, and it would also aid in bringing before the mind of the- public in a vivid way the danger from infection with the disease. To employees in the open air the dan- Physicians and Surgeons' college in Chicago Chi-cago in 1902. He is survived by his wife Rose Shaffer Vance. James A. Maw of Ogden died in Kansas City Monday night of Spanish influenza He became ill while returning home from Nitro, W. Va. His sudden death aroused the suspicions of his brother, Robert Maw of Salt Dake, and he telegraphed the police po-lice of Kansas City ior particulars. He was informed his brother had been stricken suddenly by influenza. 19 Cases at Post. Nineteen new cases of influenza were admitted to the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. Thirteen cases were from the post, three from the University Univer-sity of Utah and three from other sources. This is the smallest number of cases admitted from 'the Universitv of Utah on any day since the infection got started among the men of the training corps. Whether the decrease in number of cases from this source is Indicative that the malady has nearly run its course in this organization remains to be seen but the military authorities hope that it has. Three deaths and about sixty new cases is the toll of Spanish influenza in Ogden for the past twenty-four hours The deaths included Miss Martha Collins 25 years of age. nurse at the Dee hospital who made the supreme sacrifice by administering ad-ministering to the stricken from whom she became infected; William Rhea M years of age, of Wendover. Utah, 'and .Josephine Madson, 9 years of age. daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Madson. Players Are Sick. Among the cases of influenza in that city there are five members of Singers' Midgets, who are afflicted. One of the those who are compelled to meet the public Indiscriminately indoors, and intimately, in-timately, can hardly take too great precautions pre-cautions while the epidemic exists in the state. Calls on Governor. Following a conference with Governor Bamberger in relation to the influenza situation, and acting upon a request of the governor. Captain J. K. Dolph, visiting visit-ing field director of the American Red Cross, made a statement to the press representatives yesterday afternoon. Captain Dolph came here on general Red Cros but at the request of the local Red Cross chapters and officials secured permission from his superiors to remain over longer than he had Intended to stay to render what aid lie could in the influenza situation. He expects to leave Salt lake to continue his regular work in other places within the next two or three days. In relat Ion to the influenza situai ion Captain Dolph said: "For any one at this time to lift any seemingly authoritative voice against the precautions now advocated in combating the so-called Spanish influenza would be virtually inviting your citizenry to commit com-mit murder, by the spreading of germs, among their neighbors. I cannot indorse in-dorse too strongly the work of the state board of health in its closing regulations and its endeavors to stop the spread of this malady. These measures are literally liter-ally saving thousands of lives and will In a large measure limit the number of cases. "Of all the plagues that have infested mankind, none have reached a mortal iterate ite-rate of 80 per cent, while in cases of the tertiary or pneumonia period of this Spanish In fluenza the mortality is running run-ning in some localities as high as 50 per cent ano tne numoer o: lunerais in Salt I Lake will absolutely- depend nn the pre-i pre-i cautions taken to prevent Its spread, j Every cough, every sneeze, every running nose should be regarded with suspicion as being primary Spanish influenza, and those who care to live should, shun any one displaying these symptoms. "Grotesque as would seem the universal wearing of gauze masks during the con-flue con-flue ting of all business in lids city, it would reduce immediately the spread of the disease 50 per cent and actually stamp it out iti ten days. This, by the way, is the only even partially successful success-ful method of prevention that has. as yet, been evolved by the combined medical medi-cal thought of the country, science having hav-ing on this occasion found absolutely nothing In the category of medicine which will either prevent or cure this terrific plague." i'wuwi to iii i aenuua cumiiuon ana cannot can-not he moved. It is stated that there are entire families fam-ilies in Ogden who have been stricken with influenza and wdio are in desperate ."traits as far as receiving treatment. They ate unable to secure the services of a nurse and the only assistance they receive re-ceive is from volunteer nurses or neighbors. neigh-bors. Those who have volunteered their services as nurses have been supplied with copies, off instructions for the caring for the sick ones and the safeguarding of themselves. With the death of Josephine Madson yesterday It is reported that Mrs. O. B. Madson and another child are verv low with pneumonia following the attack of infl uenza. Miss Collins, nurse at the hospital, is from Park City, and has been at the hos-i hos-i pital for a number of years. The body-will body-will be taken to .Park City for interment. The funeral a i rangements for William Rhea, who died yesterday, will be announced an-nounced today. 'A wife, one child, a sister sis-ter and two brothers survive. Wyoming Situation. It has been reported that several Wyoming Wyo-ming towns were under quarantine. In Evanston the report is to the effect that there are -100 cases of Influenza and up to a late hour last, night there had been twenty -three deaths from the disease. The offer "r the board of trustees of t he First Congregational church at Ok den to give the basement of the church .is a temporary nmeruenr-y hospital has bean accepted. Preparations began early eslordav a fternoon to get tlie place in re.idinss to receive jj;ttients. The basement base-ment is well lighted and heated and has been the headquarters for the women of the r-hurch In their Red Cross and conservation conser-vation work, Three purses will be in |
