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Show WEARING OF MASKS , MADE MANDATORY Order to Be Issued Today to Combat Spread of Influenza. NEW CASES REPORTED Five Deaths in Salt Lake, Eight in Ogden, Is Day's Toll. Tlie wearing of masks by every person per-son in Salt ake and elsewhere in Utah afflicted with influenza was determined upon by the state board of health last night. Dr. T. B. Beatty said that the official order probably would be issued some time today. It will apply tQ all persons per-sons in offfces. business houses or public places. The mask will not be worn on the street. That it will be impossible for the Bed Cross to meet the demands for masks was the statement of Robert J. Shields of the Red Cross last night. He said citizens citi-zens should make their own masks at home, either by taking a piece of gauze eighteen by twenty-four inches of eight thicknesses and attaching pieces of tape or" strips of cloth to tie it on. Three thicknesses of finely woven cheese cloth, folded to the same size, will also answer the purpose. In emergency a handkerchief handker-chief will suffice. New Cases Reported. One hundred and one new cases ot ; ' Spanish influenza were reported to the city board of health last night, which was a marked increase over the preceding preced-ing day. Five deaths were also reported, as follows: Agnes Lillian Larson, 5 years old, 16 P street; Ira G. Smith, 32 years old, at a local hospital; Lee Box. at a local lo-cal hospital: Robert M. Williams. 621 Carson street: Paul C. Robinson, 26 years old. 13S South Maimstreet. City nurses reported yesterday that extreme ex-treme suffering had been found In many homes, where dire need had followed in the -wake of influenza. In many cases, they stated, the sole wage earner of the family had become ill and the sudden cold weather, combined with the high cost of the necessities of life, had created deplorable conditions. In many cases children were found almost starving, with both parents ill and helpless. Says Mask Will Protect. That the wearing of the simple gauze j mask will forestall the disease, and that If worn generallv by all the population of the citv. Salt Ike will escape the consequences con-sequences that have been felt in the east, has been agreed by all the s,iate and city health officials. "No person need fear influenza if the protective gauze mask is worn." said Dr. Beatty last night. ; Influenza can be contracted only from the exhalations af tlie breath of a person per-son who has it, and the germ will die quickly unless it secures lodgment in the mouth or nostrils, according to physicians physi-cians of the city. The mask, they declare, serves as a screen that will effectually catch and tangle the moist germ, which then quickly dies. The mask need not I be tied closely over the face, but is sufficient suf-ficient if it hangs over the nose and mouth. Spanish influenza has reached fifteen i new towns In Utah, and in many of these panic has taken possession of the citizens, citi-zens, according to Ihe health authorities. Nurses have found entire families strlck-1 strlck-1 en and have- had the greatest difficulty in securing aid in their work. Delta Is Afflicted. According to Red Cross officiate, half i the population of Delta i.s .suffering with influenza or convalescing from the disease. dis-ease. Pleasant Green has many cases, f and In Moroni the disease has ajrain j broken out after it had apparently. abated. Pleasant Grove lost its only doctor, who . died of Influenza, and it has many cases, f In S'alt Lake, Robert J. Shields, man- j asrer of the Red Cross, reported yesterday . that more calls had come in than on any , previous day and there had been less j nurses or aids to send to those who j urgently needed help. Mr. Shields de- j p!ored that accoupts that the disease was abating had lulled many towns into a false security. He said that the situa- j tlon was still critical and the utmost pre- cautions were necessary to prevent it from becoming a grave menace. He stated that he had received many reports of patients needing care in other towns who had been neglected through the fear of neighbors of the contagion. He said that if the necessary precautions were taken there need be but little fear of contracting the disease through giving the patient attention. Special dispensation was granted th railroads to bring a patient from Eur-mester, Eur-mester, Utah, to the Red Cross hospital. Dr. Realty granted the dispensation when it was learned that there was no way of caring for the patient in that town, and that he was seriously ill. Vaccine Is Procurable. Dr. Beatty of the state board of health announced yesterday that a supply of Rosenau vaccine, to be used as a preventive pre-ventive against Spanish Influenza, would arrive soon in the city from Roston. He stated that the vaccine Is the only on? I authorized by the Roston Influenza vaccine vac-cine commission and the medical authorities authori-ties of Illinois. "The vaccine should be used by everybody every-body as a preventive measure," said Dr. Beatty last night. "It Is given In three treatments, with Intervals of several days between each treatment. It renders the subject absolutely Immune from influenza. influ-enza. It will be administered free, as far as Is possible. The reason we have not ordered a quantity before in that It was not to be had. on account of t he previous orders of eastern slates afflicted with influenza before It became epidemic In Utah. "The formula Is no necret, and I have: asked for It In order that arrangements may be made to manufacture Inrtie juan-tltleH juan-tltleH of the vaccine at the University of Utah laboratory. Dr. Rosenau Is now In Chicago helping in the production of the vaccine there." No answer was received by Dr. Beatty to the telegram whb-h he sent Thursday nlaht to Surgeon General Rupert Blue, asking that twelve nurses be sent to Utah at once to aid In combating the spread of the epidemic. Fewer Cases ul Post. There was a marked decrease In the number of new '-uses of Influenza admitted admit-ted to the post isolation hospital y eater-day; eater-day; but the dally report carried one death. Glen H. Miller of PangUltch, Utah, who was admitted to the post hospital from the students' army training corpfl at the University of Utah, died of pneumonia, following' Influenza, Thursday night. Only ten new cases of the disease were fctfAltted to the hoHpliuI during the day, All of these were from the commands at the post. They were light eases, it is announced, however, that, while tin. number of nev admittances to the Isolation Isola-tion hospital in decreasing, the percentage of serious pneumonia eases I showing an Increase. This Is as whs expected, how-flver, how-flver, as It has been the history of the Infection In fill the ramps that the rllscHsn gathered virility h H ran Ms course, find f he percentage of pneumonia cases Increased In-creased ;is the peflo'J of epidemic lengthened. length-ened. ogden reported ssventj new eases and etfM dealhs vest crd;i . Tnf d;ilh loll fniioAn Mrv .i. Marshall, Infant da Ugh Ui or Mr, and Mrs. Harry Marshall, 162 tt'ett Twenty-eighth street; Irving Ctoa- ncii. 20 yeari of age, son or Mr. and Mrs. Jaihes Oosnall. 2"B0 Van liuren avenue; Mrs. Mary Jackson, 7" years of age. Sixteenth street; K. . Smith, employee of the Union Pacific at. Ogden. died at ihe f Jee hospital ; Qeorgs ( Jufford Anderson, Ander-son, ij yearn of age, son f Mr. and Mrs. a. Anderson, BSndlotl a venue, died unt nlKht after l en days' INhchm : Marcus Paulson, "'I years of ag0. Sou t hern Pacific Pa-cific JiKenl nt Ilalleck. Nev., died ;it Op-den Op-den of pneumonia, ii" survived by his widow and two children; Mrs. Qeorgs h'toiey, t n r Capitol fiveniie. Opdcn, died at a Hospital lasi night after a week's Illness; Ill-ness; Charles I'ettlt. til years of ;ikc, died In west OKden of Influenza. He ih survived sur-vived by hi widow and nix children. Nurse Proves Heroism. Ruth Ward, a nurse of ihe Utah Pub-lie Pub-lie Health unsocial Ion, Is traveling alone. Visiting many towns of the stale, bravely fighting i he epidemic of Influensa. She wfift sent out to Instruct others In treat- IllK the disease. According to word received iu Halt rke yesterday, she was about to leav I'rovo When she. was Informed by u franlb-Child franlb-Child that the mother of a certain family on I'rovo bench had Just died and sev- eral of the children were sick with the disease, Neighbors and rela tlvee had fled, fearing contagion, according io heiilth officers, Miss Ward rushed to the rescue a nd found rnndlt I on a a fipa IIIiik The cblldre,! ce.iSerl lo desfialr when she plunged Ii.to hsi work and clung to her as their rescuer. She succeeded In Mtabltehing rji !,denceof neighbors and assured l.ieni lint I hey would not eat' h the dl ease r i bey used proper precautions, Yesterday she wenl on lulo I ' i ,. 1 1 county, u I ling afid Instructing |
