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Show Board Defers Order Raising Influenza Ban Increase in Cases Due to Assemblage at Peace Celebration Makes Continued Precaution- . Necessary, Is Decision. W can hasten Ui day when the doting or den, effective be nmxHUWlnMM epirfe-io, way WWgUei if tinue to exercise) the precaution advised by the health authorities. The health authorities aaid today that by next Wednesday it may be possible to remove all reitrictiom and to permit the reopening of schools, churches and theatre and the holding of public gathering. gather-ing. Thi can be done tf durm gtherttfrpwcUy 1 j1? Assuredly, we will all rejoice when the schools, theatre and churches reopen and it should be a pleasurable duty to do all in our power to hasten thi day. The Telegram wishes to' appeal to its great family of reader and friends to exercise the prescribed precaution during the next few day. It asks you all to continue to be careful it will be for only a few day for by so doing you will protect your own health, the health of your neighbor and batten the day when the "flu ban" may be raised. The ban on public assemblages will not be lifted by the state board of health Monday, but will continue for a "few days more." until the malady hss lost Its epidemic, character. This wss the snnouncement made today by In-. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner, and other me inhere of the etata board of health. With full cooperation of the publlo and more personal precautions by Individual the ban, he declares, might be safely removed next week. CASES INCREASE. A sudden Increase In the number of new cases, traced directly to the congestion con-gestion of the publlo during the great peace celebration Monday, was the dl- . pr.,l,m.ln. the Clnslns order. Persons who contracted the dls-ease dls-ease Monday did not feel the effeeta of their Infection until yesterday and last night. When the period of In-oculstlon In-oculstlon of the "flu" germs had expired, ex-pired, dozens of nsw cases wsre reported report-ed In rapid succession. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. There is no cause for alarm by the general public on account of these additional ad-ditional cases, lr. Beatty declares. If the patients remain ieolated and the public contlnuee rigid precautionary measures. "It is a duty which every person owes to himself to rigidly guard galnst contact with other persons for the next few days," said 1 T. Beatty. I "IJon't lose your heada and harbor a fear that you are going to get the "flu" and die. It la entirely up to you whether you get Hx and It Is also up to you when the schools, churchee and theatre can Ja opened. Hit light. Tske every precaution and in a lew days the worst will be over and the ban can be lifted with safety." REFUSES TO FIX DATE. Just whst dsy the order might be rescinded. Dr. tieauy reur He said it msy possibly be lifted Wedneedsy or Thuredey. Heports front other sections of the state today showed continued de. creese in the epldessle. WHS) Itie exception excep-tion of a few towns tisdew ie elill in a eeriooe condittuei and eerel new cases have broken out el (yosyts) and Morgan At th letter piee- fTfr persons per-sons were stricken with the malady yealerdey. IndKalHHM were that Ihey contracted the disease while attending I he big peare celebration la Kail Lake Monday, ae most of tlw.se eff lu ted sd-mlttsd sd-mlttsd hsvlng come to the city. Hftl-rials Hftl-rials vf Morgsn sent en urgent cell here for nurses, reporting that ons family of thirteen has been etrlckrn. with sll but the father and a small liatie reported in a serious condition. FEWER DEATHS. REPORTED. I Vp to noon todsy the city board of health received reKrte of twelve, new .cases, which Is not regarded es a serious se-rious Inrresse over the reports for the same period of other dsys. Fewer ' de:ithe sre being reported from sll sections of the stats. Indicating, health ifonflniiert on pse 7 I BOARD DEFERS t 'Otltilitied from page 1 l officials say, thiit the ::ialady has lost i its virulency and that fwer fatalitlea will result - tho dif-cae Kradmlly I dies out. j TWO TOWNS OPENED. The state bonrd Pf health ioda-a "l- j thorlxed the lifting of the closing ban at Itoosevlt and f'oalville, two cities most s-rmuly affected by influ-nxa. i during the -arly staKs of the cpi- I deinic. IUth have reported thut tne I malady has entirely disapiH-ared and! I that health condttiona art again tior- I mal. j- ll was anuoiiiKCd that l'Jj new cases) I were reported in the city iiay, ( as against thiity-one for the ,fi'vhmii da v. Ir. Kauiue) fi. Paul. tHy I I f 1 1 , cmm.ioni , rderd a car f it dei k of ail cases reported aht tilht, Man-p-4'ting ttiat sevral old r-ass had Ih en reported as new ones. FIFTY-81 X NEW CASES. Nurses. Inspectors and doxiot s u the health d'pa,rtment were sent to, dozens f houses from whnh reports had ' been made They determined ; whet her or not the pat tents actually bad the Influenza and when they were first visited by a doctor. The t h king up of the aftuut.ion ib this manner; showed a -cording to I r Paul, that only fifty-six new ras'-s had deveh.ped. ' itsstead of 12,",, in all but twenty-f.ve of the cases reported. Of th 1" cases checked tip, fortv-four fortv-four were found nut to be new -hmh. i but cases that should have heen re- jM.rted a week or more ago. It Paul aays. One of the new caj-es reported esterday show ed, hen ( he ked Ufl. that the victims death certificate ha. I 1 been receii ed . t tlte lo.ird of hnth Welneedv, although lte r'-poH turned in yesterdav was o the'rff.i thar he, had Just contracted the d-ae There are iilf twenty fun more; lioites to he eMiecked tip. srrd What mi miter of n 0 ine-n lh-se 4wtl -A remains to te cn. Mow ever. f r Paul ie ves ttnt eer.l of these will prove tti be old eases, as twentv nut .f the ' number were turned in lv oe dof-'or . who hd r"t previous' rrpi fid a bio- caee sjik e the ii:rnic lUrUj. f |