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Show IWEMYTmSHDME DOWN WITH 'FLU' ' III DTI SALT LAKE.Oct, 24 Sixty-soven new cases were -reported to tho city board of health yesterday and eight deaths. City health officials have noted that the number of new cases is always larger every other day than tho day preceding. -Dr. Samuel G. Paul declared yesterday that this was explained by the fact that it takes about forty eight hours for influenza cases to develop after Infection. He said that a number of people were infected in-fected with the disease each day and they mix with the public without knowledge that they have taken influenza. influ-enza. They become 111 and forty-eight forty-eight hours later the people with whom they have come in close contact con-tact come down with the disease. Yesterday's Death Toll The death toll in Salt Lake yesterday yester-day folows: Betty Bradley, G months or age, daughter of John F. Bradley; Elizabeth Davis, 4120 East Third South street; Myron Lorenzo Hock' ing, 21 years of age, Red Cross hospital; hos-pital; Douglas Earl, 33 years of age, 915 Euclid avenue; Percy Underwood, 24 years of age, 63 1-2 West Second South street; Mrs. Grace Benedict, 21 years of age, 1393 Major avenue. Fred B. Hummel, 35 years bf age, died in the county hospital. Frank William Baker Gordon, 4 1-2 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baker, 3057 South West Temple street, died Tuesday night. Evelyn McCarty, 3 years of age, daughter of Mrs. Evelyn McCarty. 205 Paxton avenue, was reported by the Red Cross hospital to have died of influenza yesterday. Some Improvement Noted The situation throughout the state is encouraging, according to Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner. There has been a continued improvement improve-ment in several localities, according to reports received by tho state board of health. Kenilworth. Watson, Cisco. Manila and Beaver were new towns to report cases of the disease last night. Delta reports that since the epidemic gained a foothold 143 cases have developed and five deaths have occurred, but the situation Is now Improving. Heber reports that 225 cases have been reported re-ported and five deaths., Lehl reports 125 cases and Tooele 100. "The need for nurses is as great as ever," Dr. Beatty said last night "The organization of the relief work has been splendid and the people are rising ris-ing to the occasion. Nurses and doctors doc-tors have done wonderful and untiring work, but we need more nurses and unliinloni'c " Mrs. J. S. Trimble and Miss Leona Johnson, two teachers of the Sumner school, who fell victims to the disease while bravely nursing two large families, fam-ilies, have recovered. They both have Reported that they are ready to resume re-sume nursing influenza patients. Dean W. W. Fleetwood stated last night that the usual number of calls for help had been received at Red Cross headquarters headquar-ters during the day. He stated .that, if many women in the city could but see some of the cases of great need they would respond at once to the appeal for more volunteer nurses. Teachers as Volunteers A special meeting of all the teachers in the city was called last night by E. A. Smith, superintendent of Salt Lake schools. More teachers were urged to register for volunteers work to replace those who had fallen from the ranks of tho ones who first registered regis-tered through exhaustion or sickness and to fill the need created by the constant number of new cases. The emergency kitchen of civic center cen-ter is supplying a great need in furnishing fur-nishing hot food and soup to needy families stricken with influenza and to nurses who have no opportunity to prepare food. More than 200 invalids are supplied with lunches and soup every day. Those in charge report that donations of food arc gladly received re-ceived for the use of the sick. Mrs. C. E. Acheson joined the diet kitchen workers yesterday. Several more volunteers vol-unteers joined the motor corps. Nurses who are taking care of patients are requested to get in touch with the civic civ-ic center kitchen. 138 Towns in Grip The number of towns and cities of Utah reported to be in the grip of influenza in-fluenza is 133, according to state board of health estimates. An unofficial estimate es-timate of the number of cases In the state made by health officials and Red Cross is 20,000 cases. Seventy -five draft registrants who called for medical medi-cal examination at tho capitol yesterday yester-day were released. Examining physicians phy-sicians had informed the draft executives execu-tives that many lives would be placed in danger wore they taken from the work of caring for influenza patients to examine draft registrants. oo |
