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Show INFLUENZA DEATHS ARE DN DECLINE IN STATE SALT LAKE, Oct 31 Influenza in Salt Lake may be on the decline. An examination of the daily records of the city board of health shows a slow but steady decrease in the number of cases cas-es reported each day. Health authorities author-ities are of the opinion that of a check taken Thursday night still shows a decrease, de-crease, the epidemic has passed its peak and is abating. No false hopes are encouraged, however, how-ever, as past records show sudden increases in-creases in the number of new cases following an apparent decrease during preceding days. Red Cross headquarters headquar-ters reports an increasing number of pneumonia cases, with the usual number num-ber of calls for help. A family of thirteen eleven children and their parents was reported to be stricken with the disease yesterday. Trained nurses are needed as urgently as ever, Surgeon General Rupert Blue is still unable to send either doctors or nurses nurs-es to Utah. State Reports Better Encouraging reports of the Spanish influenza situation were received by Dr. T. B Beatty of the state board of health vesterday from several towns in the state. These towns reported a steady, though slow, betterment The opideniic has now penetrated to ev-erv ev-erv county in the state. Dragon was the last town yesterday to send an urgent ur-gent appeal for help. So many citizens in the town and at the Dragon mine were stricken with the dlseaso that there are not enough well people to care for the sick. An urgent appeal Is made for doctors and nurses. The fatalities In Salt Lake, Wednesday, Wednes-day, as the result of influenza, -were as follows: Joseph E. White of Eldora, local hospital; Mary Dowd, 14 years of age, local hospital; Charles Borgor, 37, local hospital; Joseph Abrasturo, 21, local hospital; Lewis Cassero, 48. local hospital; John McClintook, 40, local lo-cal hospital; Gertrude Mcintosh, 16, local hospital; Mrs. Johnson, 21, local hospital; Private Robert A. Fin-nlcal Fin-nlcal and Private Emll F. Gauchat. Willard Stlffler of Snlt Lake, inspector inspec-tor for the state road commission, is reported to be seriously ill at Provo with influenza. Mrs, Stlffler went to Provo last night A well-known local attorney has Informed Dr. Samuel Paul of the city board of health that his bank account is at his disposal for use in relieving cases of distress caused by the influenza. A general order by the state board I of health, making the wearing of masks is public places compulsory,is asked in letters addressed to Governor Gover-nor Bamberger sent by the stale livestock live-stock board, the Utah Wool Growers, association and the Utah Manufacturers' Manufactur-ers' association. The reasons advanced advanc-ed are that the recent system adopted In many communities of the state quarantining against the disease Is causing keenly felt interference with the business and commercial activities of the state. The letter from tho livestock live-stock board is signed by Charles B. Stewart, R. W. Hoggan and Thomas Redmond. Major Glen Miller, field director ofr Utah of the Red Cross military relief work, has received instructions-to take over the relief work for the student army training corps at the Brlgham Young university. Equipment Is Dispatched He immediately sent a quantity of Influenza relief equipment to the university uni-versity training corps to aid the authorities au-thorities there in handling the epidemic. epi-demic. It is planned by the major to name an assistant at Provo to take . pfisunai cuarge oi inc reuei wont, dui ' he will make a trip to the city and personally look over the situation be-i be-i fore making any appointment. Two deaths from influenza-pneumonia were reported from the isolation isola-tion hospital at Fort Douglas yoster-i yoster-i day. Private Robert A. Finnical of j the University of Utah student army I training corps, and Emil F. Gauchat 1 of C company, Seventh engineers, died during the day. No new cases of pneumonia developed develop-ed during the day. No new cases were admitted. nn |
