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Show Influenza Ravages Show I Slow but Steady Decrease General Situation, However, How-ever, Still Warrants Utmost Caution. INFLUENZA in Salt Lake may be on the decline. An examination of the dally records of the city board 01 health shows a slow but steady decrease de-crease in the number of cases report-; report-; ed each day. Health authorities are of the opinion, that if a check taken Thursday Thurs-day night still shows a decrease, tie epidemic epi-demic has passed its peak and is abating. No false hopes are encouraged, however, how-ever, as past records show sudden increases in-creases in the number of new cases following fol-lowing an apparent decrease during preceding pre-ceding days. Red Cross headquarters reports re-ports an increasing number of pneumonia pneu-monia cases, with the usual number of calls for help. A family of thirteen eleven children and their parents was reported to be stricken with the disease yesterday. Trained nurses are needed as urgently as ever. Surgeon General Rupert Ru-pert Blue is still unable to send either 'octors or nurses to Utah. Male Reports Better. Encouraging reports of the Spanish influenza in-fluenza situation were received by Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state board of health yesterday from several towns in the state. These towns reported a Vteady. though slow, betterment. The epidemic-has epidemic-has now penetrated to every county in the state. Dragon was the last town yesterday yes-terday to send an urgent appeal for help. So many citizens in the town and at the Dragon mine were stricken with the disease dis-ease that there are not enough well people peo-ple to care for the sick. An urgent appeal is made for doctors and nurses. The fatalities in Salt Lake. Wednesday, Wednes-day, as the result of influenza, were as follows: Joseph E. White of Eldora, local hospital: Marv Dowd. 14 years of age, local hospital; Charles Berger, 37, local hospital: Joseph Abrasturo, 24. local hospital; Lewis Cassero, 4S, local hospital; John MrClintock, 40, local hospital; Gertrude Ger-trude Mcintosh, 1, local hospital ; Mrs. Johnson, i'4. local hospital; Private Robert A. Finnical and Private Emil F-Gauchat. F-Gauchat. Willard Stiffler of Salt Lake, inspector ; for the state road commission, is reported to be seriously ill at Provo with influenza. Mrs. Stiffler went to Provo last night-A night-A well-known local attorney has informed i Dr. Samuel Paul of the city board of health that his bank account is at his disposal for use in relieving cases of distress dis-tress caused by the influenza. Nurses Taken 111. Two nurses at the county hospital were reported to be ill with the disease yester- I day. Three deaths were reported in the county as the result of the epidemic. A general order by the state board 01' health, making the wearing of niasks in public places compulsory, is asked in let- ! Jers addressed to Governor Bamberger sent by the state livestock board, the Utah Wool Growers' association and the i Utah Manufacturers' association. The reasons advanced are that the recent system sys-tem adopted in many communities of the state of quarantining against the disease is causing keenly felt interference with the business and commercial activities of the state. The letter from the livestock board is signed by Charles B. Stewart, 1 R. W. Hoggan ami Thomas Redmond. Major Glen Miller, field director for Utah of the Red Cross military relief I work, has received instructions to take I over the relief work for the student army ! training corps at the Brfgham Young unl- 1 versity. Equipment Is Dispatched. 1 He immediately sent a quantity of influenza in-fluenza relief equipment to the university training corps to aid the authorities there ' in handling the epidemic. At is planned ' by the major to name an DjSslSutnt at Provo to take personal charge ot the re- lief work, but he will make a trip to the j city nd personally look over the sttua-: sttua-: lion before making any appointment. 1 Two deaths from influenza-pneumonia were reported from the isolation hospital at Fort Dougas yesterday. Private Rob-, Rob-, ert A. Finnical of the University of Utah 1 student army training corps, and Emil F. ; Gauchat of C company. Seventieth engi- news, died during the day. No new casts of pneumonia developed during the day. No new cases were ud-! ud-! mitted. Initiating a movement designed to temporarily tem-porarily relieve distress occasioned through the ravages of the influenza epidemic ir. Salt Lake, a meeting of Red Cross officials with representatives of the city council of defense, was held yestei day morning - at Red Cross headquarters. Mayor W. . Mont Kerry and J. David L:rson. the lat- ter secretary of the ,Salt Lake Comnicr-j Comnicr-j cial club, were present with the execu -: five staff of the Red Cross. Relief Work Planned. The meeting was called upon recom-; recom-; mendations from the Red Cross officials i in "Washington, D. C. for the purpose of j devising ways and means of providing a : definite and available fund to bo used in j nroviding a measure of support for such , fa mi lies as have been bereft of their j breadwinner during (he present plague. It is reported that there are more than ! a score such cases in Salt Lake, j Only a plan outline was formulated at 1 yesterday's gathering, but a decision was reached to hold another session next Sunday Sun-day morning with members of the coun- cl! of defense and other organizations able I to assist In final organization of the relief re-lief scheme. Miss Esta Knsign, a nurse of the Utah j 1'uUic. Health association, who is working ; under the direction of Dr. Beatty, reported report-ed last night from Morgan that she had Beet compelled to stop her Insi ruction tour to lake care of cases which were extremely urgent. She has now gone to Portage, where conditions are reported to be sertois. Dr. Myers of Spokane has also been ordered to 1 'ortage. St. George Afflicted. In spite of the most rigid quarantine and the somewhat Isolated position of the town In tiie state, St. George lias re-i re-i ported six cases. The influ nza, situation 1 at Perron is retried n be very serious and two deaths occurred in that town. I lawreiicr. in a new town which reported j the diM&JM last night. The father of I three children and a mother in a family j with seven children', died in that town 1 ' October 2!l. Ir. Joseph fttlffhei is ill with Influenza at Spanish Pork. Before giving up his ! day's labors to recuperate and care for himself, ir. Hughes reported that he personally per-sonally had cared for 100 cases at Salem, twenty at I'ayson. nine at anoth r town anil several between these points, a Iu -nfte reported the development or sixty cas'-H In Mix days. At Deer Trail mine I fifteen n-w cases developed. Scofleld n -I ports eleven new cases, with a 'total of twenty-one since tin. epidemic started, Hiawatha reports thirteen cases a nd Wattln six. LeaniiiiKto)! reports seveniy-two seveniy-two ;,... and declares the situation to be now under control, WHlsvllle reported i four new case;; and II vie Park fort v j Sight cases. |
