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Show INFLUENZA AGAIN BREAKS PUTIN SALT LAKE. H Something has gone wrong with the H health affairs of Salt Lake. Yesterday H sighty-threo cases of influenza were H deported and there were four deaths. H This means that the capital, with its H loose health regulations and its desire H .o upset the quarantine, has been pun- H Ished by a return of the plague. H Dr. Beatty stated to the local health H board, at a meeting early in December, H that It was safe to multiply the fig- urcn made public in Salt Lake by two, ( and then the number of new influenza I cases would be understated. If this still holds true, Salt Lake is now at the beginning be-ginning of a second wavo of the disease. dis-ease. The Standard Is fully convinced that Utah's health laws must undergo radl cal changes to meot emergencies such as the epidemic which is now raging. More power must be placed in the hands of tho health authorities, and those in charge must be untrammeled by pressure from without. The stato must be divided into districts dis-tricts with health supervisors having jurisdiction over a group of counties. This is for the purpose of escaping any local InHucnce which may be brought to bear to obtain lax regulations. Tho legislature should call before it a national authority on sanitation and j control of epidemics and obtain information infor-mation as to how to proceed to correct the errors into which this stato han fallen in its blind fight against the influenza. in-fluenza. Whon the new laws are framed, no power should be great enough to set them aside and make a fare the measures meas-ures designed to safeguard the lives of the people of Utah. |