595 Cases Of Flu Reported For Day As Plague Again Swells In Denver

• 595 new cases and 12 deaths in last 24 hours• 7,825 cases and 604 deaths to date• Denver is now in the midst of a second wave of the epidemic• The mask order is generally not being followed by people, due to various interpretations and changes coming from city hall• On Tuesday, the mayor and health officers met to clarify the order, and issued a second proclamation clarifying where people must wear masks and where masks were only recommended• No further attempt will be made to enforce the mask order on streetcars, and no arrests have been made• Only one or two stores were enforcing the mask order, none of the banks complied, and “public places generally are paying no attention whatever to the order. Not one person in fifty on the street cars is masked.”• The order that church attendees must wear masks was annulled on Tuesday• Three emergency hospitals are now ready for use by influenza patients• School board will meet Wednesday to determine when schools will re-open; there is a strong sentiment that they should not open until the danger is well past• The general sentiment among city officials is that little attempt will be made to enforce the regulations against the will of the people• Mayor Mills: ‘”Why, it would take half the population to make the other half wear masks. You can’t arrest all the people, can you? A health rule, like all other rules, must be practical of application. How can you make every person boarding a car wear a mask? A person may board a car in the residence section, where there is no policeman, and alight before the downtown section is reached. Who is to arrest such a person?’”• All the hospitals, with the exception of the county hospital, are very crowded with cases, and the emergency hospitals will help alleviate the strain being placed on the regular facilitiesNewspaper article1,