Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-11-29 | Page 9 | Only 5 New Cases of Flue Reported Today

ONLY 5 NEW CASES OF FLU REPORTED TODAY cleanup fbi; i'spuum I . I Officials Declare Danger Is' Passing; Meeting j j Tonight. Only five new cases of Influenxa i ; were reported to the' city board of ( i health toduy. according to a check made at noon. I r. Kttnuel ). Paul. I city hcahh commissioner, expressed the opinion tliMt the outlook waa very encouraging, j "If there hud leen new cases de-veloied de-veloied Thanksgiving which were not . reported, due 10 the holiday, the, reporfa of these cases would have I hern received thia morning," said Ir. I ltul. "There la every Indication that the epidemic Is aha tin- rapidly. Ill wit) tie ImiroKHihle to tell Just how the condition stunda until the reorta ; for the entire day are checked, hut it . looks now an If the disease waa pasa- j, tttr from the Fpnlmin nt.g." ,. i I A meeting of the rily board of I health, Commlaaloner Karl Hrheid and Mr. T. It. Iteatty of the state board of health Will be held tonight at 8 p. m. In lr. Paul's of flee at the public sitfety building. The object of the meeting will be to discuss the recommendations recom-mendations made recently by the Halt Ijake County Medical society with regard re-gard to combating the influenxa. Among the recommendations of the society is the compulsory wearing of maska by every citixen. and the popularising popu-larising of the vaccine inoculations. It la probable that the vaccine treatment treat-ment witl be strongly advocated by the health author, ties, as there is now plenty of vaccine available. According to Dr. Paul, there Is enough of both the Leary and Hosenau vaccine vac-cine on hand to vaccinate persons, per-sons, and more ran be easily obtained ob-tained from California. The entire influenxa situation will be reviewed and discussed at the meeting tonight and important developments de-velopments may be expected.