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Show mmm mmn till mi m vmmm INFLUENZA DECLAHED IN THIRD AND MOST DAIipiEII Bcware.the-HardDryPneumonic-Cough,-Say . Red Cross Man; Salt Lake Mortality Rate Is Increasing:. SPANISH influenza will reap its greatest toll of human life in Salt Lake this week. Greater spread of the malady Is problem-JUiial, problem-JUiial, but fatalities may be expected to increase materially until the epidemic has entirely run its course. The' csourge has reached its third, last and most virulent staee in Utah and more drastic precautions should be observed by citizens for the next two weeks. These are the outstanding features of a statement issued today by Captain J. N. Dolph of the American Red Cross. Dolph left this afternoon for the East and in his statement he summed up thj situation from a review of conditions in all parts of the state. THREE STAGES TO FLU. There are three distinct stages' to an epidemic o( Influenxa,' declared Captain Dolph. "In Utah the malady has paaaed through two stages and Is now Just entering the third, last and most virulent period. Deaths may be expected to occur In far greater numbers num-bers until the disease hss entirely run Its course. - "The disease Is now highly developed devel-oped and many more oases than usual will turn into pneumonia with Increased In-creased fatalities. The person who sneexea or whose nose runs from a ' cold In the bead la not now to be I shunned as much as the person with the hard dry cough. This cough Is pneumonia and Is highly contagious, infection ts easily contracted from such a cold and precautions should be observed. ..,.-- SITUATION WORSE. Although marked Improvement Is shown in outside districts of the state, Salt Lake hss apparently suffered a relapse In the spread and death toll of j the malady. One hundred and forty seven new caaes snd eleven additional deaths were reported to the city board of health yesterday. This Is by far the greatest number of new caaes and deaths reported In a single day since the epidemic became prevalent. Scores of persons applied at the office of the city board of health today for Inoculation with tha new Rose-neau Rose-neau vaccine, which hss arrived from Boston, Cttissns are being vacclnsted free snd a corps of doctors snd nurses is being kept busy caring for the applicants. ap-plicants. WEAR GAUZE MASKS. While Inoculation with the vaccine does not Insure positive immunltyTrom the disease, It Is regarded by medical authorities aa the moat effective preventive pre-ventive so fsr discovered. This apd the wesring of gsuxe face masks is ne-tug ne-tug urged as the most practical precaution pre-caution agsinst Infection. Robert J. Shields, tnansger of the I local Red Cross, said he was going to ' ssk the health authorities to invest!- ' gate sll questionable rooming houses j snd hotels in the city ss a meaaure for greater sanitation. He said he waa of) the opinion that manyrooinlng houses and smsll hotels have become breeding places for influenxa germs, a great number of patients having already been removed from such plsces. VISITING PHYSICIAN, Dr. R. W. Tennsnt. who vn sent to Salt lake from Spokane to help In combating the disease, returned this morning from Ileber, where he was sent by the slats board of health. Dr. Tennsnt says that more than $60 cases of Influsnsa have developed in the vicinity of Heber, but thst the death rste has been kept down to the minimum. mini-mum. He said an Investigation snowed ' that nearly all the eases resulted from the arrivsl In town of two men from Ksnsas City, where they had gone to deliver cattle, and from the holding of a public funeral for an Influenxa victim. vic-tim. FIVE DEATHS AT FORT. Five deaths occurred at the post hospital hos-pital at Kt. Douglas yesterday, frour of the victims wero soldiers and the other was Mum Kdlth June Catties r,f Lead, S. DH an army nurse. Miss fettles fet-tles contracted the disease while nurs-Ing nurs-Ing Influensa pat lent a She valiantly 1 fought her sffllctioo for three days and died heroically In the service of her j country. Iter mother waa with her ' when tha end Came. There Is still an urgent demand for 1 nurse. Many reports of families being stricken and stories of suffering for lack of car and proper facilities continue con-tinue to be made to Red Crose head-qyartTs. head-qyartTs. Kight urgent rstte for nurses emained unanswered Isst night. CATTY INSPECTS. . Dr. T. B. Realty, state health commissioner, com-missioner, went to Tremontun yesterday yester-day and from that point tnvestigsted ths situation In the surrounding country. coun-try. He reports that the most serious situation exists at Rrlghsm City, where three of the four doctors of the town are In bed with Influenxa. Dr. Beany reported thst conditions generslly throughout the stats sppear to be Improving, Im-proving, with a steady reduction In the death rate snd new cases outside of Salt Lake City. Kvery member of the local marine corps recruiting station wss Inoculated Inoculat-ed with Influenxa vaccina at the c-ty emergency hospital today. |