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Show FLU SCOURGE III STATE IS LOSING KICK Ban to Be Raised Soon, Is Belief Only ..Twelve New Cases in 24 Hours Re- ported in Salt Lake City "piTERE is still evidence of 1 an epidemic character of influenza in Salt Lake," said Dr. T. B. Bcatty, state health commissioner, com-missioner, today. "Until the situation has cleared to a greater f x- tnt the cluing ban cannot gafely be lifted." Out of 150 Indians on the Goshute reservation, near tioldhtlt. Utah, mere than half of them have been stricken with Influenza and nine have died as a - result of the malady. This report ws made today in, a. telegram to Aqulla Nebeker, local Tnited States marshal, from Superintendent Frank of the reservation. res-ervation. Frank reported that conditions among the Indians were serious and he requested that aid be sent there immediately. im-mediately. There are no doctors or nurses In the vicinity and It is report-e report-e ed the disease continues to spread. Marshal Nebeker appealed to the state board of health for assistance and an effort will be made to send doctors and nurses to the reservation tonight. NEW CASES. Rlx'ty-seven new cases were reported report-ed in Halt Lake county today. Eureka reported two more deaths and fifteen new cases in the emergency hospital there. This makes a total of sixty-nine deaths In Kureka since the malady became be-came prevalent. This is the largest number of deaths in any one city In The state outside of Halt Lake and Og-den. Og-den. Ogden re port el a slight decrease in the number of new cases yesterday. There were 125 new cases reported as 8 gainst 153 Thursday. Reports from there this morning also forecasted a Continued decline. A material decrease is also noted In the number of c;wes reported to the City board of health. .o IncTPaKe hftP become apparent here an a result of the suspect etl re la pe ca u sed by i he great peace demonstration last Mon-v Mon-v day. , VALADY LOSES KICK. Local health authorities are confident confi-dent that the malady has lost its epidemic epi-demic character and that cases now being reported are not as serious as those developed in the early stages of . the scourge. L'p to noon today only twelve new esses bad been reported. Three of these were checked up by Inspectors and found to be cases that should have been reported several days ago. Or. ! Samuel O. Paul, city health commis- I sioner, declares that a large numher of the cases reported in the last two days, snd which had much to do with the continuation of the closing order, shoula have been reported a week or more ago.-Kvery case Is -being carefully care-fully checked by nurses, doctors and inspectors snd in some Instances, he says, the patients reported afflicted fcave returned to their work. Pr. Beatty refused to forecast a pos-. Ible date next week when the closing order might be rescinded. He said it would come as soon as conditions Justified Jus-tified it |