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Show FORT DOUGLAS IS I NOW QUlHDj Public Excluded From the Military Post Under Order Or-der of Commandant. GUARDS, ARE PLACED I No One Without Pressing Business Permitted an Entrance. Fort Douglas Is under military ijuaran-tlne. ijuaran-tlne. A general, order establishing the quarantine quar-antine was Issued yesterday afternoon by Captain J. 0C. Hunt, post commander, stnrt Is now in effect. The order was Issued Is-sued aa a precautionary measure against the spread of the influenza infection. t'nder thin order, a guard has been established to see that the provisions of the quarantine aie enforced. Guards are on duty on the' roadway entering the post and also at the street car entrance, to ' prevent persons entering or leaving who have not proper authority to do so. The quarantine order excludes the public pub-lic from the post. No one from the outride out-ride will be permitted to enter the post unless on special himiness. and then prop- i er authority for admittance will have to be shown. Restrictions on Admission. In cases of the serious illness of pa-tients pa-tients at the influenza hospital, where the nearest relative has been notified by the hosptial authorities and given permission to see the patient, these persons will "be admitted to the post for that purpose, it is announced. Such persons, however, will have notification from the hospital authorities if their presence at the post la desired, and proper authority fo;' their admittance will be issued. The general public will not he admitted and it is useless use-less for them to go to the reservation expecting ex-pecting to gain admittance. People who have no authority to enter the post will he held up at the entrances and turned bark. The quarantine order also applies to the soldiers of the post. Soldiers of the Organization at Fort Douglas are not per-mined per-mined to leave the reservation during the period of the present emergency except upon business, and such will be furnished with official passes to show that they are entitled to go and come. Men of the pept organizations who live in the city will lie permitted to go back and forth, but this will ho upon pass. The Official Order. The order issued by the post commander com-mander reads as follows: "1. Effective this date, the entire post is placed under a state of quarantine. "2. No visitors will be allowed and only those having official business will be allowed al-lowed to enter the post grounds. Passes may be obtained from post headquarters. 3. It will be the duty of all organization organiza-tion commanders to see that the men comply with this order as far aa practicable. prac-ticable. "4. Necessary delivery wagons, government gov-ernment vehicles and other transportation win he allowed to enter the post, but they will limit their trips to as few as pos- "5. No passes excepting those approved by the organization commanders now stationed sta-tioned in this reservation will be recognized recog-nized by the guard. "6. Relatives or nearest friends of patients pa-tients seriously ill will be allowed to visit the patients in the base hospital." The best possible facilities for handling i he influenza Infection among the military mili-tary troops have been provided In connection con-nection with the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas. Such Is the observation of Dr. Woods Hutchinson, after a visit to Fort Douglas yesterday morning and an Inspection of the special hospital accommodations that have heen provided to handle the emergency emer-gency at the post. Praised by Hutchinson. "A noticeable feature of the hospital at Fort Douglas is the abundance of fresh air provision that has been made for each patient." said Dr. Hutchinson. "The buildings used as hospital wards are naturally nat-urally large and roomy with ample air space and, fortunately, there Is no necessity neces-sity for crowding patients together. There in plenty of room to give all of the sick ample room and air. and this is the most effective method known in combating the disease." Dr. Hutchinson said that from his observations ob-servations and investigations of the nature na-ture nf the epidemic here, he thought It would bp reasonable to expect It to run its course and practically disappear from this community within the next two weeks, or three weeks at the outside. He was Inclined to believe that two weeks more would see the epidemic over. In view of its genera light form here and the natural climatic conditions which are favorable In combating the serious form of the malady. Shortly after noon yesterday yes-terday Dr. Hutchinson left Salt Lake for San Francisco. |
