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Show INFLUENZA INCREASES IN THE CITY; STATE IS IMPROVING 4 IN. ONE USE DIE AT DOUGLAS Five deaths, including one nurse and four soldiers, is the toll of life claimed by influenza-pneumonia at the KorL Douglas Doug-las isolation hospital yesterday. Miss Edith June Catties, army nurse corps, and a member of the nurses' corps of army general hospital No. 21, succumbed suc-cumbed to tin: disease early yesterday morning after a. vialiant struggle against the infection for more than three days. She contracted the malady while on duty caring for others stricken with ii and gave her life heroically in the service of her country. Miss Catties came here from her home in Lead, S. D., only recently, having entered tho nursing servh-e of the army and been assigned lo duty With the gen-ernl gen-ernl hospital at this place. Her mother, Mrs. Levia Woodward of Lead was notified no-tified as soon as the condition of her daughter became serious and .siio was at the hospital when Miss Catties died. The body will probably be taken to her home in Lead for interment. The four other deaths reported yesterday yester-day included Private Edward S. Peter-sou, Peter-sou, E company, Eighth infantry; Private Pri-vate John Anderson, C company, Seventieth Sev-entieth engineers; Private William Frlcss. 0 company. Seventieth engineers, and Private Thomas M. Wathen, C company, Seventieth engineers. Private Edwards was taken from a train passing through Salt Lake a few days ago, he having developed the influenza while traveling. Pneumonia infection developed de-veloped and he died during the day yesterday. yes-terday. Privates Anderson. Priesa and Wathen were members of the railway engineer bat talion at Fort Douglas and were among tho men of this organization who recently developed the disease. Anderson was from Bakersfield, Cal. ; Priess from Carver, Minn., and Wathen from Lebanon, Ky. Relatives have been notified in each case and the remains are being held for instructions. Yesterday's toll of life at the post hospital hos-pital was the heaviest that has been experienced ex-perienced there since the influenza epidemic epi-demic struck the military forces in Salt Lake. Previous to that time there had been a total of only six deaths out of nearly 300 cases of influenza admitted to the isolation hospital. There baa been a steady decrease in the number of new cases admitted to the post hospital for the past four or five days, but with the decrease in new cases there has also come an increase In the percentage of pneumonia cases, which seems to bear out the theory of progressive progres-sive virulence of the malady. When the epidemic first started practically all cases were of mild form and there was very little lit-tle pneumonia. As the epidemic continued the cases became more aggravated and serious and the number of pneumonia infections in-fections has increased perceptibly. Eight new cases of pneumonia infection developed at the post hospital Saturday and three new ones developed yesterday. The pneumonia phase seems to prove fatal fa-tal ip a three-day period and this was the case with the five patients who died yesterday. The malady is .proving an enigma in many ways. While it seems to be on the decrease in the matter of spread, it is becoming increasingly dangerous and fatal fa-tal in its nature, calling for added precautions pre-cautions and care against infection. Seven new cases of influenza were admitted to thepost hospital yesterday. |
