OCR Text |
Show wimiti is 'SIUJPIC Malady Reaches Epidemic Proportions in Many Additional Cities. Conditions at the Army Camps Again Show a Slight Improvement. VC'ASHIXOTO.V. Ort. 10. In its licht to siop the spread of Spanish in.lnenis.t., the pi h ir heal tii sf rvie is invotitiprat ins? the causes of the disease, the (.-onditions which promote its snread and the part played by carriers in en id en ins of i ho mnlady. ' It also is seeking an effective vaccina, hut annotmcriueiit was made toil to-il iaht that Hie service ha s as yet been iinn hie to recommend any that it believes be-lieves will he success fill. Meantime influenza continues to spread over the country in spile of the strenuous efforts and rlrnst ir measures taken to prevent it. The malady now has reached epidemic proportions in many additional cities, includinq: Portland, l.ehanon and Corvallis. Ore. It also has appeared In several counties in Oklahoma and Nevada, Ne-vada, while from 5'"0 to tioo municipalities in . .Illinois report t he disease. Camp Improvement. Tlie conditions nt army camps today showed a slight improvement for the second sec-ond time since the malady became epidemic epi-demic in the training places. During the twenty-four hours ending at noon. 12.3-1 new cases were reported to Die office of the surgeon pen era 1 of the army, with 2 7 it 7 new cases of pneumonia a nd deaths. The total of influenza eases reported re-ported at army camps since tlie disease first appeared has now reached :M1"M1, pneumonia cases 24,fts:j and deaths t-t-. The campaign of the public health service ser-vice is now well under way. Nearly o0 physicians are in the field and headquarters headquar-ters have been organized in more than thirtv cities. Tlie volunteer medical corps of the council of national defense and the American Red Cross are actively co-operating witii the health serviee in its campaign cam-paign in New Knirland. Pennsylvania, New Jersev. Delaware. Xorth Carolina. tomh Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and .Mississippi, as well as in Arizona and .Montana. In other states local head-ouarters head-ouarters have been established in many cities. Additional cities to which physicians of the public health service have been sent include Helena, Mont., and Winslow,. Aria. |