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Show SIX DEATHS IN PAST U HOURS HUE TO THE INFLUENZA WHICH CONTINUES TO SPREAD IN CITY According to a report received from the city board of health this afternoon, after-noon, the number o actual cases of colds, bad coughs, grippe and Spanish Span-ish Influenza reported to that office up to the hour of 2:30 was 685 since the beginning of the-epidemic The malady seems to be increasing throughout tho city at a steady rate of about forty hew cases per day but actually ac-tually correct statistics are hard to get owing to the fact that the doctors of the city are so busy attending the cases that they do not have time to report their totals a any precise hour of the day. The whole force of modi- cal aid and sanitary authority is working work-ing energetically in the direction of counteracting tho disease. Among tho deaths due to Spanish influenza reported since last night are: Lawrence Hobbs, 1 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hobbs; Yase Ka-hashi, Ka-hashi, wife of O. Kahashi, a Japanese resident; Coo H. Doon, who died at Salt Lake City; Karl Trunecka a young man of 25 years; Mrs. C. P. Fitzgerald, wife of C. P. Fitzgerald and daughter of W. J. Parker; Mark Ogle-tree, Ogle-tree, 3 year-old son of Wm. B. and Gertrude Smith and William R. Ogden, Og-den, 3 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ogden of West Second street. |