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Show MANY DIE OF GRIP Influenza Causing More Fatalities In Chicago Than Since 189 1, CHICAGO, Jan. IS. Influenza is more prevalent and more fatal In Chicago this winter than at any time sine th epidemic year of 1891, according to th weekly, bulletin of th health department. depart-ment. ' Twenty more deaths from this cause were reported during tho week. Investigations by Dr. Robert B. Preble, a medical Inspector for the department, de-partment, are held to show "there can be- no Question that Influensa, or la grippe, is th most Important factor of the increase of pneumonia and, In consequence, con-sequence, of heart disease. Statistics are Quoted as proofs that tho deaths from heart disease and from pneumonia have increased at almost exactly ex-actly the same ratio sine 1M3. The fact that ths germ which causes pneumonia also Irritates tho membrane covering tho valves of tb heart. Is commented on. |