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Show SULRER OVER PEAOF 'FLU' Measures of Surgeon General's Gen-eral's Office Bring Disease Dis-ease Under Control. Epidemic Continues to Spread Among Civilian Population of Country. i WASHINGTON. Ost. 16. While Span-; Span-; Ish Influenza continues to upload among j the civilian population generally, a con-: con-: tlnuetl decrease In the number of new cases at army camps tonight led army . medical officials to believe the peak of I the epidemic among the soldiers has been j passed. Secretary Baker said reports indicated in-dicated measures taken by the surgeon I general's office, had brought the disease 1 under definite control. New eases of Influenza among the troops reported during the twenty-four hours ending at noon today totalled 56G8 Bgalnst 6198 yesterday and against more than twice that number only a few days ago. Pneumonia cases today aggregated 1S95 compared with 1316 the day before, and deaths were 710. a decroase of 179. Influenza cases reported from all camps since the beginning of the epidemic. now total 262,186 pneumonia cases, 39,276 and deaths 12,3(0. Improvement Noted. Although reports to the public health servlco showed influenza spreading In most parts of the country. Improvement was noted in some states, particularly Vermont, New Jersey and Tennessee. Tt Is estimated that there now are at least 200,000 cases of the disease In Virginia, Vir-ginia, while the estimate for Connecticut was placed at, 110,000 up to yesterday. Epidemics continued to be reported in many parts of Arkansas, while new cases were reported from practically all sections sec-tions of Maryland, Oklahoma and other states. Tn California 6500 casos had been reported re-ported to October 14. No sharp increase was noted in any of the larger cities, out the number of,-cases continued to rise steadily. In Hawaii very few cases havo appeared and these of mild character. char-acter. The epidemic continues unabated In Washington. |