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Show INFLUENZA NOW REPORTER WANING Twenty-eight New Cases in Salt Lake; Three Deaths Take Place. Three deaths and twenty-eight new cases, and the statement by Dr. Samuel G. Paul of tho city board of health that the Red Cross emergency hospital would probr bly be closed soon for lack of pa- ' tients, summed up the Salt Lake influenza influ-enza situation at a late hour; last night. Five deaths two at Mt. Pleasant and three at Eureka and the statement by Dr. T. B. Boatty, state health commla- I sloner, that the ban on public assom-hlag-es at Trcmonton, Green River and Levari would be lifted Monday, likewise summed up the situation in the state. . Reports from the hospital at Fort Douglas Doug-las yesterday indicated that the end of the epidemic is at hand? there. For four days past there has not been a new case of the disease admitted to the institution, institu-tion, no new cases of pneumonia have developed, and 'there had not been a death. All patients at the isolation hospital hos-pital are said lo bo well on the road to 1 recovery, and it Is thought to be but a 1 quosticn of time until the quarantine restrictions re-strictions at the post may be removed. From the Red Ci oes hospital (t was re- ' ported last night that only ono new caie had been admitted during the day, and that but one death hud occurred, that of Raymond Henry, 18 years old, whose homo is in San Francisco. The St. Mark's. Holy Cross, Latter-day Saints and County hospitals ouch reported no new cases admitted during tho day, and only i one other hospital reported a death, that of William J. Hatch. 27 years old. Mt. Pleasant reports yesterday stated that there were 175 cases In the town, and that George- Seeiy, 2'. years old, and Benjamin Reynolds, 28, had succumbed to ; tho disease, while from Eureka it was reported re-ported that three deaths had occurred during tho previous twenty-four hours, and that the work of transforming the high school into a hospital was about completed and patients would he received thero Ihls morning. |