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Show 36 NEW CASES OF BISEJISEjEPOfilED Four Deaths in Salt Lake Declared Due to the Influenza. Thirty-sJx new cases of influenza and four deaths were reported to tho city board of health yesterday. Those who succumbed were Bruce Brimley Gerald, 2 years old; Thomas G. Welch, 30; Jesus Barendala, 37, and Delbert A. Budd, 23, brother of Lieutenant Charles C. Budd, who is in France with the 145th artillery. At the Red Cross emergency hospital It was said that three new cases had been brought in during the day, but there had been no deaths. Twelve patients had been discharged as cured. Twelve more will b discharged today, it was said, leaving leav-ing only thirty-seven cases in that Institution, In-stitution, exclusive of such as may be taken there today. Three new cases were received at St. Mark's, four at the Latter-day Latter-day Saints and three at the Hoiy Cross hospital. Members of the state board of health last night held a meeting at the office of Dr. Fred Stauffer in the Templeton building, build-ing, where the advisability of lifting the ban on public assemblages was discussed, among other things. The board adopted a resolution that If conditions continue" to improve as they have in the last few days the order closing schools, churches, theaters the-aters and other places of public assembly will be rescinded, to take effect November 18. It Is understood, however, that such action Is contingent upon continued improvement, im-provement, except in localities where the disease st-ill prevails to an extent that renders such action unsafe. The public is warned to continue to exercise every possible precaution to the end of precluding preclud-ing any turn for "the worse. The zone system of combating the disease dis-ease among the indigent families of tho city and county will be placed in operation opera-tion today, according to information given out by the health officers. The county will be divided into five zones, each of which will have a doctor assigned to it. Zone No. 1 will include all the territory east of Main street and north of Twentv- first South; No. 2, all territory west of Main and north of Twenty-first South; No, 3, all of the area between Twenty-first Twenty-first and Thirty-third Sotnth streets; No. 4, from Thirty-third South to Eighty-eighth Eighty-eighth South, and No. 5, everything south of that. The first zone wil be in charge of Dr. W. R. Anderson; the second. Dr. T. O. Duckworth; the third, Dr. D. G. Edmunds; the fourth, Dr. W. H. Roth-well, Roth-well, and the fifth. Dr. R. W. Born of Sandy. A sufficient quantity of the anti-Influenza vaccine is now ready for distribution, distribu-tion, it is said, so that all who may wish to take the treatment can be supplied. Conditions throughout the state are rapidly rap-idly improving, according to the state board of health, reports yesterday showing two deaths at Eureka, one at Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, two at Payson, four at Ogden and one at Bingham. Neither Eureka nor Pay-son Pay-son reported any new cases. Mt. Pleasant reported the demise of Dr. Frank R. Tanner, Tan-ner, a dentist. The public library at Mt. Pleasant has been converted into an emergency hospital for influenza patients, it is said. But six new cases were reported re-ported from Prove No new cases of influenza were admitted ad-mitted to the isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. This is the fifth day upon which there has been no new cases, and It is hoped that the epidemic is about at its end. There were no deaths reported and no new pneumonia cases. |