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Show INFLUENZA 1 OGDEN IS NOW H TIE DECLINE . ! There is increasing evidence that I the Spanish influenza epidemic in the I city of Ogden is on Ihe wane. Al-I Al-I though full reports were not received jat tho city board of health at. tho time ' of going to press, the reports received . from many of the busiest physicians I in the city indicate that the trouble is decidedly on the decrease. Ono doctor who has reported as many as twenty-fivo cases a day, this morning reports only nine. Others who have reported as many as twelve j cases per day, report four today, i 'This is no reason why there should ' be any cessation of preventive measures," meas-ures," said Mr. Shorten." Rather there should be increasing diligence to notice tho beginning of coughs and colds and attend to thorn without delay." de-lay." In order that the board of health may be able to report a daily decrease, it is hoped that tho entire poulace will unite in further watchfulness and greater care, say authorities. It is a widely spread opinion, corroborated cor-roborated by many doctors, that the I labor of attending lo cases of the disease dis-ease has been made lighter by the insistent in-sistent use of old fashioned methods of sweating patients and keeping them warmly covered until medical help arrives. The mustard and hot water ,foot bath,, tho drinking of hot lemonade lemon-ade and an early retirement after that I treatment to a well covered bed has ; saved many hundreds of cases from ' becoming serious. During the last twenty-four hours three deaths have been reported to the city board of health. Johana Kruitbosch Ternes, James Nerden and Clarence Baker Frantzen. |