Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-06 | Page 1 | Epidemic Gains Ground Rapidly

PI1IC EMUS nnpr Increase of Influenza Is Greater at Camps Than Ever Before. WASHINGTON. Oct. 5. Spanish ln-l ln-l fluenza increased more rapidly during the : twenty-four hours ending today noon I than in any similar period since the dis-! dis-! case become epidemic. Reports to the j office of the surgeon general of the army j showed 17,3i"3 new cases in army camps. I The new cases represented an increases of 440S In comparison with the number S reported the preceding twenty-four hour ! period. A total of 22 41 new pneumonia I cases were reported, an Increase of "ST. j Deaths at camps totalled 65", an increase of 390. ' Definite reports as to the spread cf the ! disease among the civilian population were lacking tonight. Dispatches received re-ceived by the public health service, however, how-ever, told of little abatement of the epidemic in most states. The stringent measures being taken, it was said, soon should show re suits. Camp Taj lor. Ky., with 1,"S new cases, reported the greatest spread of influenza in the twenty-four hours ending at noon today; the Kentucky c:'.mp also reported 26$ new cases of pneumonia, and forty deaths have occurred. Reports received by the Red Cros from the middle v -st show more than -P nurses have bee? supplied l y the organization organi-zation to meri the emergency caused by demand for nurses. At Camp irherman, Ohio, it is Relieved -the dieaso is subsiding, only TAO new cases being reported in co:np.'.rion with more than 10 no yestc rday. Fifty-three deaths, however, were reported from Camp Sherman. Foi tiie foiuy-v;iht hour period ending i today noon 1 1 1 now cases oi i;i;lue..i, of pneumonia, and forty-five deaths were reported m (,'nmp Meade, M.iry- (Coiuiniicd on Page Four) EPIDEMIC G1S fill RAPIDLY Cr!;nnr! from rK Or.) v ;1 - " . f ' - ( ... -.- , .! . t . p ) r -' . K I- ! T i - : - ' v i . i !. i. i - - r - m v 1 1 ) ir-.-l " M.l t ( . t Co fi i.r- , ,1 i c .'!:: i i- w : t h-ir it .1 . l t - T - if. 1 f-u- t-r- 14 i- I'lern,,- 1 1 ... , , y m 1 , ( t ' .- 1., 1 t i -i 1- ( ,m - i..--r 1 U it i i . . 1 1 - .- 1 1 i ,i ; .t f..r ... i -. .. in i i mi .-.1 S' . t .-. ill i-'-'i .t..:i t"i 1 w t i i.-v . n ,l,-v,hi. ; r t ! l-i 1 1' .;t 1 vwih v . f ,mii h."ir t' f ..-i ,..--f imi.il .t f.. .it, h--'l ir r-. i ,1 t f ul ..f t l.o rp-.li-tr. M 'i t'..- , . . i'1'..n ,.f . - in ft i-i t; r .ul-. r . ' ir. 'i . : t. r- w Ij ',. J,,- ,1 . t ui.-.i I ..v i 1 -t -..in, I. -ii I