Bigger Swath in U. S. Mowed by Influenza

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CaroCaroCaro- t1 eo Iso contin The enl Tho o st an middle we 8 HIe havern IK have cities I tics jn X I an nil 1 cases nU nejl nc ed 2688 stet cd outRide o0 outside polis whet f i polls is seas ts i Tho malady The a Ohio Jhio rep and cHit t teen till It Is ct 1 ia tj nic In the tho other So0 y neW 1 pre stateale les 1 t1 Jemie 1 I1 1 I that that Comb tee Bit CoIl In Hit evon Missouri rc reb and en s cities elites l un Kansas In se 91 set Z j1 rs nd ma rom n. n ties Tho The ew r ei six cities and i unties side Iso is Mexico The Tho oob A 8 spread A read In Arlo c es fr five Idaho reported ft dist disDaU p cities South Da dis Da case throughout ease a hout IV J I a nttt2600 ra reported 2500 the th cast 0 no ers 2 0 wo nen rep r lies weakk Montana rop week during the week eOenJ ap oher ober r1 my tn Although Influent fr eIn n h her bercamps Increased sit ber H I t v je of pneumonia caes 90 99 cases flod easel deere Rod doer iod lod during the hoV tho twenty ho r period 7 ending today at noon were ath ath a. cases against yesterday Ii flu reported from all can a ce the epi ice bagon b now tot t i pneutoti 2 a i Imonia cases Ideaths re ad eb 1 r Ii en 1 l l I fJ tor J to nu 1 Do Scarcity of Nurses N. Y Is Serious In N T Tho The ot New York Oct 18 Tho scarcity oof 18 BO to so great in this Is thin city that toepiepithe Spanish Influenza epi deal with tho Copeland Commissioner loner demic Health Commis proanil pro protonight appealed to business anti hi fessional men to volunteer to work In night shifts In tho hospitals to roro 1100 nurses who have been on duty for tor many hours at a stretch or tho emercmorthe women's cmor At a meeting of gency committee an appeal for nurses hosrom waa Governor's read from Island Governors hosWill pital pital where It was said hundredshos of Buffering soldiers front Influenza were inu frum luhoused with only one trainedd nurse to tu care Cor for them Thc health department announced toThe to toto or wages tor tIny day that a scale of for nurses and unbilled helpers had bp beenn drawn Continued on Pi PIKa CCC. nurses cd S BIGER US I U. SWATH IN U.S. U S. MOWED BY INFLUENZA s o Page 1 Continued From Pape up which provided that the former un Cormer daya day should receive not moro more than 1 IiIdepart departdepartnnid id the latter 53 health 3 Th The Invesment also announced that It Is hiVes meat tigating alleged profiteering In funerfuner als hby undertakers taking advantage oC pl of the tho epidemic In asserting that he ho had not changed hili mind about keeping the his tho schools open Dr Copeland said investigation of thIndicated that more than half thtiC the halt or ab absentees chool wro not attending school or 11 heid by because of fear of ot influenza held i It It 3 Tt r jUM ry In chan tH chiltheir parents and not because the chil children were Ill III liven en IfIt more teachersao ill he sai said he deemed it BO ar to keep children In school might ht and under supervision that It ml be necessary to call In entertainers j GoldGol GoldFormer Health Commissioner Gold water tonight tic public ht urgedcl that the ho closed at once schools bo Copeland today Dr wrote tho heads the toda companies oC the transportation of In this city asserting that he ho was not satissatis fled with tho the conditions oC of ventilation fId In tho the cars and that although possibl bly I may concede that crowding laS at It times unavoidable I enn nevor concede can never mm Im any timo freo ventilation IIs at an that free time mmpossible oror orRear Admiral Usher toda today Issued or ders to nil lers all officers and anel enlisted men un er his Jurisdiction to keep out oC under of unun the subway and underground tubs un tubes untilII the Spanish Influenza epidemic has II I I W s ton abated Grows Influenza G rosIn Foreign Clinics Climes II Washington Oct IS Cable inform Informainformrethou re tion from Spain Italy and Mexico received by tho the United States public health service tod reports continued today or the Influenza epidemic growth of In emic In those countries throughthroughThe disease is still general through out Spain Latest reports IsIs It isnow accompanied by typhoid state asa I tho Italy In 11 ns the Spanish fever Cever CeverS It Is called there Is reported as it becombecom lS becoming alarming An estimate placed the oC cases prevailing In Palermo number of Many deaths have occurred at throughout Ital Italy The Tho malady has madG Its appearance In several ot made tho of the principal mining towns oC of Mexico g roth I 1 Dack Dack I j S- s Chicago Kids KiIS Must lust Play in iii Back Yards Chicago Oct IS 1 S to In I re II- yards mus ar s must bo tho be e of ot Chicago children at pin as the result of play Isor a police order Is ordel IsIs today as step In check sued uel toda checkIS another steD checkhug the spread of Ing ing oC influenza Earlier In the dllY Health Commissioner Hob tho day Hob- uel g a directed a general vaccination ofc Chicagoans with antitoxin Chief Chic of Police Alcocks Chic oC direct's order direct Alcock's directed that policemen shoo all children ott off tho streets and disperse street corner the gatheringss and anti crowds ot of all kinds i j s I- i Reports received today for twenty twentyfour hours showed an increase In deaths and a decrease in now or new cases caes of influenza and pneumonia The fl figures ures ew cases were New 1917 Influenza lpneumonia decrease 76 Deaths influenza pneumonia IninInIn In crease 19 crease A blood serum scrum used as a curative In east only In desperate cases of tho cast the or IninIn fluenza will be tried out In Chicago and Illinois the state influenza com comcorn rree tonight Tho mission agreed The commisslon Is faced with a difficult commis sion problem to obtain tho the curative In sufficient quantity as It was state that eight ounces ot blood must stated be taken from a he patient ofwho has survived malady the malad to0o produce three ounces of or serum Tho commission received The or experiments of report of or this serum 1reports om Dr Herman N. tfrom N Bundesen of ot the tho Chicagoo health ddepartment who rere rere turned today from front a n eastern trip Tho commission laid emphasis on tho The the scrum should that tho the serUm conbe con confused with ith the vaccine now not In use The vaccine Is a preventive and the scrum serum tho Is u u sed ed as aa. curative only in very badbad cases lt e I SUI I I e San Francisco hand first v cr 11b San Francisco Oct IS All theatres and motion mollon picture 11 tho nd In the state were ordered closed houses today b the state oC health board of as a result or the Spanish Influenza epidemic of Schools and churches wll will remain open except In cities where hero the they have been closed bby local authoritiesalready tho board tho the an announced Six hundred and fourteen new cases oC Spanish influenza were reported of to health authorities today bringing his this city's total to cases Twenty deaths tere were reported making a lot totall oC seventy to of tod I date dite EI El Paso so Oct 18 El P Paso or tho Efforts of the department to 1keep health Pao a record of the Spanish cases temwere l tern tem porarily abandoned today becausee the thc doctors were so overworked they did not have time to report cases Tho epidemic now is centered in tho nois' IH can quarter arler Ine Nine deaths occurred thero today there There were seven deaths at lie the Fort Bliss mis base hospital duringduring the past pant hours and nino nine deaths were vere reported from Juarez Mexico op or- Efforts our four hero here Denver or 18 Little Denver Oct IS Little material changeo In the chan was Influenza situation wa waR noted either cither bby state city health or elt slate authorities tocla today In Denver twenty additional deaths were reported during the past dath twenty four N ebraska hours hour 18 Lincoln Neb eb Oct 18 Continued Continued spread of or influenza In ka was Indicatedd in a statement Nebraska liv the tile stat bv star or health Approximately board of non cases were reported to the board 0 lite no I II