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Show INFLUENZA SPREADS AND STATE j AUTHORITIES CALL FOR HELP ! IN CARING FOR TIE AFFLICTED Throughout the Btite of Utah the epidemic of Spanish influenza is raging rag-ing with Increased intensity and the state and local boards of health aro bending every power at their command in safeguarding tho public. Despite shortage In the number of nurses available every effort is being made to use people who possess nursing experience ex-perience and who are at present inactive, inac-tive, as well as training willing young women in the care of influenza patients. pa-tients. ' Salt Lako, for instance, has already al-ready commenced the training of a number of School teachers who have offered themselves for this necessary labor. Addressing tho volunteers Dr. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, said that, according to all indications, the disease was Just starting start-ing in Utah, and a long and bitter fight could be expected. He told the teachers teach-ers that the schools would be closed for many weeks. He informed them that he would endeavor to see that they were paid for their work as volunteer vol-unteer nurses. "Common sense should be your best guide," Dr. Paul said. "Serious cases will be sent to hospitals, but there are hundreds of families throughout the state who are absolutely helpless. "The patients require someone to bring them simplo nourishment and water. Wo do not expect to make trained nurses of you in a night, but we can tell you how to be extremely useful. r "According to statistics in the east, abdut 15 per cent of the population of an afflicted city catch tho disease. Our cities in the west are fortunMc in having hav-ing no tenements or crowded populations. popula-tions. Your chief duty toward your patients will be to provide them with plenty of fresh air, such nourishment as thev mav need nnrl tn fnllnw rmf the doctor's orders to the letter, no matter what they may be." The Gauze Mask. In an interview yesterday, Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a noted American authority on public health, who has just returned from France where he has studied tho health conditions of I the battle front, encouraged tho peo- i pie of Utah by stating that, after conference con-ference with the state authorities here, he was persuaded the situation was being be-ing tackled in a highly efficient way to check the spread of the disease. "You havo the disease in a mild form here," said he, "and because of your excellent climate, lack of slums and lack of large numbers of the very poor, the epidemic here should not cause very serious consequences. It mav be expected to run its course more rapidly rapid-ly than in many other places and with far less fatal results." According to Dr. Hutchinson, medical medi-cal treatment will neither prevent no euro the malady. He stated that no medicine has been found that would j'iui a person who is susceptible 'from taking the disease If exposed, and medicine would not cure him after af-ter he got it. "It is true that a vaccine has ijeen developed," .said Dr. Hutchihson, which has been found to givo 'fairly good results in prevention and has been quito effective In reducing fatalities, fatal-ities, but this is so limited in quantity, and the possibilities of its manufacture manufac-ture are so limited that it cannot be gotten In quantities sufficient to be of material use in this epidemic," said Dr. Hutchinson. "Hence the only thing to do is to take every possible precaution to protect pro-tect yourself from infection. Using medicines for this purpose is useless. Nothing has been found that is effective. effec-tive. The only thing that is at all effective ef-fective is the gauze mask and people who want to protect themselves should wear them, even in street cars, on tho streets and other places where they are likely to come Into contact with the disease. "If you get tho disease you don't need a hospital, a physician and a trained nurse. They cannot do anything any-thing more for you than any other person who will wait upon you and see that you have what you want. No medicine has been found which has any effect upon tho disease, so you rlnn't nnnl mmliilnn If i . i- . . ...vmwuc. ij. )UU UL me disease in tthe pneumonia stage, what you need Is not a hospital with doctors doc-tors and nurses, but a tent out in the fresh air with someone, protected by a mask, to sec that you have water to drink and nourishing food. If the resistance re-sistance powers of your constitution are sufficient to throw off the poison you will get well. If they are not you will be dead in about three days. But you stand far better chances for recovery re-covery out in the fresh air than in a most mpdern hospital. Frosh air is the only medicine and tho only treatment treat-ment that seems to have any effect at all. But experience has demonstrated demon-strated that fresh air Is effective, therefore it should bo used to the fullest full-est extent." circulars, reports, etc., should be kepi 1 together. I Already the Red Cross has a store- i' room full of papers, magazines, etc. which are to be tied together. Students Stu-dents and boy scouts, who have nol any work or aro attending school are asked to volunteer their services and assist in this work. It is expected that the local branch of the Red Cross will gather up about two carloads of paper which will be shipped to a California Cali-fornia paper mill. The receipts of tho same will go to the Red Cross. |