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Show 2P MFLiEMl CASES I'fUl : : ' . 138 STATE TOWNS HIT BY EPIDEMIC; CUT,IA2 REACHED Lack of Precaution, on Part of Patients Held Re-" Re-" " ipohsible for Increased Death Rate ; More Nurses Needed. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT towns and citie of Utah are in the grip of Spanish influenza. These were the official figures fig-ures given out today by Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner. commis-sioner. Cisco and Manila were two new towns which reported at outbreak of the epidemic today. j Health department and Red Cross authorities also unofficially j estimated the number of active cases in the state at 20,000 since the first appearance of the scourge. Seventy-five draft registrants called for medical examination at the capitol were released for an indefinite period. Examining . physicians told draft executives that the lives of many families would be jeopardized if the time of doctors was taken up by the examination of draftees. J he spread- of Spanish influenza, so far as Salt Lake City is concerned, has reached its climax, according to opinions expressed by health department official.. While there are atitl accrea of new caaea being be-ing reported dally tha number. Incline to ahow a decreaae over tha prevtoue day'a report. DEATH RATE HIGHER. However, tha belief la expreaeed that more deatha are occurring; now than at any other time during the epidemic. Official, believe thla Is due to care-teeatieea care-teeatieea on the part of perro&a ex-poaed. ex-poaed. Many patient a refuae to ea to bed or be taken to a hoapttal until the malady tlirna Into pneumonia. According to J. Fred Andereon, manager man-ager of the Juriae Merry hoapttal, moat of tha eaaea hroutrht fltere arem -the verae of pneumonia and nearly alwaye prove fatal. There haa not beea a am. gle patient dla who haa gone to the hoepltal for treatment at, tha flrat aymptoma of tha dlaeaae, he declares, i GERMS WORK RAPIDLY. The germ, of Influenza work rapld'y and tha patient ta quickly overcome and left nrnetrat with every chance for pneumonia. If he doea not take every precaution from tha atart. Mr. Anprron dclarea mn.t patlenta can be dtacharged In a few da-ya tf they go to tha hoepltul before the dlaeaae geta a good aturi and rearhea tha aerloua stage. MORC NURSES CALLED. Robert J. Shields, manager of tha Red Cmea. has Issued another urgent call for volunteer nuraea. ' Th pa -t riot tc women who responded to t he first call last week must now have relief. re-lief. They have been working day and night In dosen of home and many of them are aaid to be on the verge of col la pa. f 1p to thla time It has been Impoe- , sihle to aend them relief, owing to the eerlou shortage of volunteer. A meeting of all city school teacher ha been called for 7:10 o'clock tonight I In th public safety building. They will be asked to volunteer their ser-vice ser-vice a emergency nurse to relieve 'the present army of overworked p- ! t riots. NEW CASES REPORTED. A total of 111 new caaea waa reported re-ported to th city board of health yesterday yes-terday and twenty-three additional up to noon today. Hlx deatha occurred In the city yesterday and one at the Juris Mercy hospital this morning. Twenty-six additional case were admitted ad-mitted to the poat hospital at Kt. Douglas. OGDEN HARDEST HIT. Ogden apparently haa been the hardest hard-est nit if any city in the atate. lher having already been reported 2Jt active ac-tive rave and fffty-two death. Ir. K- W. Tennant of Hooka ne, whs waa sent here by the surgeon general gen-eral to assist in combating the epl-demic. epl-demic. flips' been sent to w here t he in - f1iiegMrHjJn JwwtJMJ0MjjJ |