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Show 53 NEW CASES OF DISEASE REPORTED Nine Deaths Due to Influenza Influ-enza in Salt Lake During Dur-ing Sunday. MASKS ARE IN DEMAND Residents Urged to Make Their Own Appliances; Abating at Ft. Douglas. L,UMe change was noted in the Spanish Span-ish influenza situation in Salt Iake yes-leiday. yes-leiday. According to reports received by the city board of health, there seemed to be a slight increase in the number of pneumonia cases which followed influenza. influ-enza. Fifty-three new cases were reported re-ported yesterday. Eight deaths were reported yesterday in Salt Lake as a result of the epidemic. Frances Genevieve Hicock, 29 years of age, 2"i22 Edison street, died of Influenza. Ciare Jane Hicock, her daughter, died Thursday. Eleanor Myrte Nelson. IS vears of age. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Nelson. 612 South Seventh East street, died last night. Donna Perry. 2 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Perry, 204 East Eighth South street, also died yesterday. According to the city-board city-board of health report, her father, K. . Perrv, died of the disease Friday. Mrs. Ida Lundine Andersen, S2 years of age, wife of M. Andersen, 53 Girard avenue, died vesterday afternoon. Joseph Barrett, 30 vears of age, 103 North Second Sec-ond West street, died at a local hospital. Ralph Lawhorn of Provo, 26 years of age, died at the Red Cross emergency hospital. AKred Borner, 27 years of age, 237 Pant Btreet. died at a local hospital yesterday morning. He is survived by his widow and three children. The ninth death reported for the twen-tv-four hours was that of David McFall, 662 East Seventh South street. He had been ill a week wirh the influenza. He was 26 vears old and came here recently from Park City. Demand for Masks. In spite of a general emergency call which was sent out by the Red Cross to all its workers, the call for gauze masks could not be met. Robert J. Shields, manager, man-ager, then issued instructions for the manufacture of the masks in the homes and urged all who found immediate need of them to manufacture their own. "Take a piece of.gauze eighteen by twenty-four twenty-four inches," said Mr. Shields, "fohl it so that it is eight thicknesses and six by elght Inches in size. Then put a few black stitches on one side to indicate the front. Boil th mask thirty minutes to sterilize it. Attach a strip of adhesive tape or sew on strips of cloth to tie it in place. Wash the hands thoroughly before be-fore touching the mask after it has been sterilized. Change the mask every two hours If attending an influenza "patient. Do not turn the mask under any circumstances. circum-stances. "The epidemic has fceen largely confined con-fined to the west side of Salt "LaKe in mo pa-t, but yesterday revealed that the east side of town was being visited by the maiady. Forty-eischt cases developed in Lark within twenty-four hours aB a result re-sult of the town's disobeying the order of the state board of heal'h to close all theaters the-aters and ban all assemblies. Lark sent in an urgent call for nurses and we succeeded suc-ceeded in obtaining one. "Delta reported conditions to be extremely ex-tremely bad In that town and asked for nurses. We could not find one to send. Two families In Oakley were reporter to be helpless, with no one to attend them. We could -nmt. send nurses and referred them to Park City. The Singer Sewing Machine company generously contributed several machines for use in making masks at Red Cross headquarters in Salt Lake." People Panic-stricken. "There is verv little change In the VJtuarion." said Dr. Samuel G. Paul, city health commipsioner. last night. "One unfortunate un-fortunate feature of the epidemic is that in many neighborhoods people have become be-come so panic-stricken that they are afraid to go to the assistance of patients who are dying from lack of nourishment and nursinsr." Ogden reported six deaths yesterday from influenza, making a total of thirty-two thirty-two since .the disease became prevalent in that city. Unofficial reports of the number of ases were 1100. Edna Wamrs-gaard, Wamrs-gaard, 23 years of age. died at 2570 Fowler avenue yesterday morning. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wangs-gaard Wangs-gaard of Huntsville. Charles Ford. Z months of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ford, 2378 Grant avenue, died yesterday rooming. A. Wright. 18 years of age, died at the family residence yesterday. Hiltur Gustafson. IS years of age, died at an Ogden hospital. She was a native of Idaho Falls. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. If. Goates died yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Kenneth Goates. fhelr son, died Friday of the disease. His body was sent j to Lehl for interment. Daniel Davis. t years of age, of Chugwater, Wyo.. died at the Ogden emergency hospital Friday night. Mrs. Emma' Robbing Jones, wife of Abraham H. Jones. 20 years of ag. died yesterday In Provo of Influenza. Hhe Is survived by her husband and four sons. The funeral of Ralph Lawhorn will be held Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. In Provo cemetery. ceme-tery. Decreasing at Fort. Influenza among the members of the military organizations at Fort Mouglas is M11 on the decrease, as indicated by admittance ad-mittance to the isolation hospital yesterday. yes-terday. The mllf tary medical aut horit.les believe that the climax of the situation has been passed .and are hopeful that there will be a continued de'rense In new rases until the disease has disappeared. Only ten new 'ases wre admitted to the hospital yesterday from the cornrnnnd ar Fort Douglas. Heven new casei ftme in frorr. the student army 'rfilning '-orps st. the University of Utah and seven caMi :arne In from outside, then- mses being traveling soldiers who were takri from i rains passing through the city and sent to the post hosnltal for treatment. Dw ors of the city are watching with some Interest the efforts of the state prison authorities to prevent the disease from being communicated to the lnmate, A strict quarantine ha been placed on the Institution and a yet no rase of Influenza, Influ-enza, has developed. No rase has appeared In the county Jail. |