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Show TRAINED NISES ARE WANTED AT ONCE - IHSUTUKE SALT LAKE, Oct. 25 Dr. T.. B. Beatty wired to Surgeon-General Rupert Ru-pert Blue at Washington, D. C, last night for twelve trained nurses. Dr. Beatty says the nurses are needed at once. Tho death toll in Salt Lake yesterday yester-day follows: Mrs. J. B. Coon, Thirty-third South street, died while a nurse was .on her way to the residence in answer to an emergency call sent to the Red Cross by a neighbor. Mrs. J. C. Yeancy, 22 years of age, a resident resi-dent of Magna, died at the Red Cross hospital. James A. Sakins, 31 years of age, died at a local hospital. Ada Helming, 45 years of age, died at a local hospital. Woodrow Jorgenson, 1 year old, died at a local hospital. Mrs. Mae B. Wcnde, 39 years of age, died Evelyn McCarty, daughter of Mr. ; and Irs. Samuel McCarty of 205 Pax-ton Pax-ton avenue, died at a local hospital (yesterday of influenza-pneumonia. The J body will be shipped to Ogden for bur-jial. bur-jial. j Licklln Christine Jensen, daughter I of Nels P. Jensen, 752 Parker's lane, 1 died 'yesterday of influenza. She Is 1 survived also by two brothers, Charles and Merrill. f The number of Influenza cases re- ported to the city board of health since I the epidemic started is 1700. Dr. 'Samuel G. Paul, city health commis-jsloner, commis-jsloner, slated that many doctors of j the city were neglecting to report all i their cases as they were so busy. He j urged that each case be reported as soon as possible, j Officers Co-operate I Dean W. W. Fleetwood, who repre-jsents repre-jsents the Red Cross under the direc-; direc-; Hon of Dr. Beatty, said that not as 1 many calls for help had been received I at Red Cross headquarters as usual and the cases in the city had not proved prov-ed distressing. Dean Fleetwood visit-led visit-led Ogden Wednesday night and he re-! re-! ports that splendid co-operation ex-1 ex-1 isLs between the Red Cross and the health authorities in -that city. I Yesterday a man reported to the Red I Cross headquarters for duty in nursing nurs-ing the sick. He stated that he found he was too old to go to the front but I he could cook and was willing to look ( after needy families. He arranged his business affairs so that he could go ! on duty this morning as his services I were eagerly accepted. The "Silent I Moment," or the simple ceremony of 1 the Red Cross workers held at noon I each day of pausing during work for ; one minute and thinking of the boys , at the front and wishing them well, went into effect yesterdaj' noon at Red j Cross headquarters. I Rainer was one of the new towns to ! report cases of influenza, yesterday. 'Twenty cases and one death were reported re-ported there. Standardville has de-' de-' clared a strict quarantine but no case ;has yet appeared. Kanosh, Hyrum and ' Centerville all reported the presence j of Influenza for the first time yester-cday. yester-cday. Park City pool halls were ordered or-dered closed today by Dr Beatty. The town has obeyed the quarantine rules with the exception of closing of the pool halls. The number of new cases of influenza influ-enza admitted to the post hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday showed a marked decrease. The total new admittances ad-mittances for the day was fifteen cases. cas-es. Those In the hospital are continuing contin-uing to improve and patients are being be-ing discharged dally as recovered The quarantine at the post is still be ing strictly enforced in an effort to get the malady under control and will be enforced until it has disappeared. Three members of the same family, all victims of influenza were burled in Lohi yesterday. They were Charles Goatcs, his daughter Vesta, 8 years of age, and Elaine, G years of age. Kenneth Ken-neth Goates 10 years of age, was buried bur-ied Sunday. All four died in Ogden where Mr. Goates was superintendent of the State Industrial farm. Beaver reports the death of Stanley Edwards,! 23 years of age and Ambrose Harris, 1 26 years of age. Lamar Van Wagenen, 25 years of age, died Wednesday at ' Midway, Wasatch county. Funeral I services will be held today at 10 a. m. iJ, J. Hunt, a prominent stock man of Rexburg, Idaho, died while returning to that city from the east of influenza. I Funeral services will be held Sunday in Rexburg. Morgan, Utah, is reported to be suffering suf-fering severely with the disease. Elev-'en Elev-'en deaths have occurred since the ep-1 ep-1 idemic started and there are now 245 j cases in the town. Three Salt Lake I nurses are coping with the situation. oo |