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Show lELEVEN SEWS II OCCURRED II SALT LIE SALT LAKE. Dec. 4. Eleven deaths and seventy-nine new cases was the toll taken yesterday by the influenza epidemic in Salt Lake. The death list includes Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Bul-lough. Bul-lough. aged 25 years; Mrs. Althea J. C. Johnson, 23: Eva A. Jensen, 40; Nellie Larsen, 23 months: William S. Irvine, 29: H. T. Sl.ournoy, 36; Laura Parsons. Beth Felt Paine, Alexander Harrison, J. J. Smith, 39, and Arthur Johnson, 23. The death of Mrs. Nettie Kienke Pexton, aged 24, which occurred late Sunday night, was also reported to the city health office yesterday. Anti -influenza vaccinations administered admin-istered during the day totalled 862, of which 450 were given at the emergency emer-gency hospital, while each of the inoculation in-oculation squads at the several fire stations reported twenty-five to fifty persons treated. Three nurses at the j emergency hospital were kept busy administering the scrum. Liquor prescriptions filled at the emergency .institution numbered 121, which kept an- extra attendant fairly busy, especially by reason of the fact that many who applied failed to bring containers. All such were instructed to bring a bottle or other vessel before their prescriptions could be filled, Some Confusion Reported. Considerable confusion has been experienced ex-perienced by the recent change in the quarantine regulations, which places influenza sufferers and others living in the same houses under the same restrictions as those afflicted with other contagious and infectious diseases. dis-eases. Death in Prison Camp. One more death was reported from the prison camp Isolation hospital at Fort Douglas yesterday. George cumbed to influenza-pneumonia at the prison hospital early yesterday morning. morn-ing. No new cases of the disease have Aeveloped in the camp. There has not been a new case since a week ago Monday. Wear Masks In Murray. Compulsory wearing of gauze masks becomes effective in Murray today, executives at Red Cross headquarters here yesterday. Five hundred masks were sent from Red Cross headquarters headquar-ters yesterday to supplement the stock on hand in Murray, and those the Red Cross branch there was at work upon. nn |