OCR Text |
Show SERUM PROVIDED 27 New Cases and One Death Are Reported Yesterday. A quantity of antilnrluenza vaccine sufficient to Inocculale &000 persons was received last night by Dr. Samuel H. Paul' at the offlco of the city board of health. The 'serum will be ready for general distribution this morning, the several sev-eral local hospitals having been supplied with It immediately after Its arrival last night. -- The vaccine received last night came from Boston, and is known as the boary serum. It is said to be based on entirely different principles than what is known ns the Rose nail vaccine, which has here lofore been in use In Salt Lake. The latter requires a period of treatment covering cov-ering Beven days, while the Leary type requires -but three cays for a full treatment. treat-ment. It is claimed for the Leary preparation prep-aration that it can be used effectively even after the pal lent Is well in the grasp of the first stages of pneumonia. Thlrtv-one new cases and one death were reported in Salt !Lake yesterday, Mrs. Ingrid B. Williams, aged 27 years, beng the only person to succumb to the malady In (his city. .Sixteen patients were discharged yesterday yes-terday from (he Judge Mercy emergency hospital, leaving but thirty-one now undergoing un-dergoing treatment. None of these are said to be serious. Bingham reported two deaths, that of Kenneth Schow, 24 years old, and that of Ijydla Kanles, 27, while the demise of Frank Taylor was reported from Payson. Ogden reported no deaths yesterday. No new cases were reported from the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas, nor were there any deaths or new cases , of pneumonia there. Provision of an emergency fund for the use of the Red Cross in the care of indigent in-digent persons afflicted with Influenza was made yesterday at a conference of the city and the county commissioners and represer tatives of the city and the county councils of defense. The county commissioners agreed that the necessary appropriation will bo made by the county. Mayor W. Mont Ferry pointed out that the city has repeatedly appropriated money to such purposes and that the indigents in-digents are properly county charges. It was further pointed out that many persons per-sons are put in a position of needing help because of the epidemic who would not ordinarily be proper county charges and who would shrink from assistance through the agency of the county pauper clerk. For this reason it. was agreed that the placing of a fund at the disposition of, the Red Cross would be the most effective effec-tive and tactful means of giving the needed need-ed relief. It was estimated that a fund of $500 would be sufficient. |