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Show FIVE SOLDIERS TMEN OFF TRAIN SUFFERING OF INFLUENZA ARE - CONVEYED TO DEE HOSPITAL Inspector George Shorten of tho Public Health department reiterates his warning again this morning with regard to the extreme need ;of care in th,e prevention of the spread of in: fluenza throughout the city of-Ogden. Yesterday tberejvere'dne hundred and fifty three -new cases reported, and uj),.to'noon today seventy-nine cases, so'me of which are very serious cases indeed, Among the cases reported are five soldiers who were taken off an eastbound train last night and conveyed con-veyed to the 'Dee hospital where one of the number lies seriously ill at the present time. Everything that can be done is being be-ing done by the local health office to combat the disease and at the present pres-ent time there are about two hundred gauze masks available there which (any may have who are nursing cases of this dlsonse, fr.ee of charge, by applying ap-plying to the office. The Salt Lake chapter of the Red Cross has sent this consignment of masks to .Mr. Shorten, and tho Ogden chapter is now busily at work providing more. It is absolutely necessary, says Mr. Shorten that those who are In waiting upon persons sick from this! complaint shall do everything in their power to save themselves from becoming be-coming carriers of the disease, and tho gauze" mask is simply Indlspenslblo to all such nurses. Whilst these masks will not be given away indiscriminately, indiscriminate-ly, they will bo very gladly given to those who can substantiate the fact that they are waiting upon a reported caso of the trouble. State Officer Here The city was visited this morning by C. Elmer Barrett, sanitary inspector of the State Board of Public Health, who is visiting every' establlohment in tho city that provides work for thirty-five thirty-five or more people and, in the course of his visit, Mr. Barrett is instructing owners and managersof such concerns of this disease In public places. "It is necessary," says Mr. Barrett, "for every employer, however Inconvenienced Incon-venienced he may be by the action to send away from his establishment any person or persons showing the least sign of the oncoming of this terrible disease. It cannot be too clearly understood un-derstood how dreadful, In its serious forms, this disease is and how it may bring about the death of many people whoso lives could have been easily saved If the person beginning to suffer suf-fer from the complaint had simply followed fol-lowed the directions of plain common sense, stayed in bed, and done everything every-thing possible to recover. Jn thisthjs matter, as in all others the stitch In time saves at least- nine." i Fifteen Infected Mr. Barrett reinforced his statement about this aspect of the case' by referring" re-ferring" to the fact that only four days ago a soldier, returning to his home for the enjoyment of a furlough, traveled while sick of influenza, from Henefer to Coalville In an auto. In the incredible in-credible short space of four days that one man has given the disease to no less than 'fifteen people; tho auto driver dri-ver who took him from. Henefer to Coalville is dead; at the home where he visited, tho wife is dead and husband hus-band seriously sick; the barber who shaved him suffers of the discvise, and a number of people in the restaurant where he dined are down. In short, that one man, through carelessness of his own condition, became the cen ter irom wnicn radiated tins troublesome trouble-some disease to as many as fifteen souls. In order that the public may be inspired, in-spired, not to fear, but to reasonable carefulness, there is appended to this report an article dealing with the subject sub-ject of Influenza in such is informative way that all who are desirous of safeguarding safe-guarding their own and their neighbor's neigh-bor's health may do so intelligently. There is very great need that two extremes be avoided. The first is that of neglecting "a bad cold." Go to bed.i call tho doctor, and do as ho bids you. Having done that, don't become morbid. mor-bid. Only yesterday a Standard reporter heard of a case like this: One man was visiting his friend who was sick of a bad cold. Said the sick man, "Yeh, I've got some bad cold, be- (UVtU ULJ Uliv utlD Uttll Lgutu me all day that I've got this Spanish influenza and. she has just about convinced con-vinced me that I have." Don't wait to bo convinced by any body. If you are that kind of a man, you can look in the family medical book and become persuaded that you suffer right at this moment from every ev-ery disease mentioned therein from spinal meningitis to housemaid's knee. Don't wait to be convinced. Get right after the cold. |