Show INFLUENZA ON RAPID DECLINE IN U. U o Se S. CAMPS v New Nc Cases Show v Decrease of 50 Per Pcr Cent From Previous V T Week Wee n Washington Oct 31 steady a. Steady Improvement Improvement Im Im- provement pro in health conditions at 11 arm 11 H HI cantonments for tor the week weekending weekending I camps and ending October 25 i is noted In Ut the ht health alth report made public tonight t at the tho office office of or fice ilca of or the surgeon general Jeneral of or the army totaling a Influenza cases With new v little little littlemore more than decrease of or more moro tl than n 50 0 per pcr cent from Irom tho previous previous pre pre- I Ious week and pneumonia cases proportionate decrease 61 showing I admission rate dropped to I 1792 and death rate rata to 9 92 per 1000 from the previous weeks week's IH PIT leer r 1000 I While tho the fI figures show that the crest of oC the tho epidemic mic is now well passed tho report said Influenza and anu pneumonia probably would bo be present In tho the c camps for some weeks eel sJ po possibly through the winter due duo chiefly to the con constant arrival of or now men not before exposed to tho tiro disease Now ow cases casts of or Influenza In ht tho the camps reported for Cor the tw twenty hour period period pe pe- pG ending at noon toda today totaled 2246 G A against the day dar before Pneumonia nia cases numbered 84 today tolla against against 98 s yesterday Deaths r reported at l 1 loo were fewer than titan t sInce tho the epidemic began be began be- be gan s-an September 13 Pueblo Hit Hard B By Influenza Denver Den Oct 31 J No No o material change was wn noted b by officers of or tho the state health board in the fl figures on tho the in influenza influenza In- In epidemic submitted to them from various cities and counties of or tho state today todar Totals of oC new cases reported and CO GO deaths led to the assertion assertion as as- that the lifting of or tho the ban on public gatherings still remains Indefinite indefinite nite nito and uncertain Pueblo appeared to bo the heaviest hea sufferer from the epidemic reporting a a. total of or tI new caI cases a a. figure In excess s of or the Denver Den total of oC 06 Deaths from Crom tho the disease In each ach city toda today totaled 12 Reports to the state health health board board mado made this month show a a. total of S 9 deaths In Colorado attributed to Influenza em enza with cases reported Reports no- no ports to the Denver Den health authorities included In the state total give e cases In Denver Den with 3 deaths Community Graves Dug in ill fex 1 Mexico co Juarez Oct 31 All All efforts to bury tho the dead dett from Spanish Influenza In In Individual individual In- In l dl graves and in coffins have o been abandoned In Mexico and community com coin graves ar are being dug UJ In many towns whore where bodies are aio being beng buried burled 1 i nt the rate of or from 60 to dally daily letters let- let tern teu received hero from the Interior toI toda today to- to I da day stated elated The cemeteries have been boen abandond as bur burying places and the tho open fields ields are being used because of ot the large number of ot the deaths from the disease One hundred deaths occurred at Rt Parral Parral Par- Par oral ral Sunday Bunday Fifty Fitly deaths have beni been ben i occurring dally daily In Chihuahua City dally In Torreon and In Saltillo Mon Ion and other northern and central Mexican cities The supplies of ot drugs have v. been exhausted and In n many Instances In Instances In- In stances whole families have stave died without without without with with- out medical treatment or drugs Minnesota l St. St Paul Oct 81 Influenza U Influenza reports to state board of ot health today showed 1690 0 new cases and of or pneumonia and 83 81 deaths In towns sending telegraphic telegraphic tel tel- reports Tho The list Included 59 now cases In St. St O Paul 1 i 01 th Moro MOrO than nan man JOU U refugees in IlL n UI mo e J Cloquet firo district now are aro suffering with Influenza according to a a. message received lato late today nt at state military headquarters from Gen W Yo 1 P. P Rhinow who Is at Cloquet i Illinois Chicago Oct 31 Chicago a Chicago theatres closed by Influenza quarantine roo ro- ro o ened tonight In Jn Illinois toda today 36 communities communities reported new cases of or Influenza a a. large reduction from the previous day Improvement In Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago engo continued New Mexico l East Las Vegas N N. M. M r. r Oct 31 Tito Tho Spanish Influenza situation is clearing up In the larger larget centers and spreading in the moro more isolated communities of or orew New ew Mexico according to a n. statement Issued today by tho the secretary o of tho the state boar board of or health There have o been cases and in deaths death inthis Inthis in inthis this state since the epidemic began Nebraska Lincoln Neb Oct 21 31 Further 1 Further Improvement Im Im- im- im provement In tho the Spanish influenza situation In Nebraska was Indicated by the tho state board of ot health tod today In Ina Ina a a. statement saying that 1584 new cases cares were reported since yesterday This isa Is Isa Isa a big bib decrease In the dalf dally dairy average e of or orew rely rew ew cases reported recently Porto Rico San Juan Porto Rico 1 Wednesday Oct Twelve Twel CO Twelve hundred soldiers at Camp Las Lag Casas aro are ill III with a n. light form of ot Spanish Influenza Forty cases of oC pneumonia ha have developed but there thero has been only onh one death The insular sanitary authorities report that there thero are Ire five lve cases casos of or Influenza among amons- the civil population In San Juan but that there thero arc are SOO cases in the nearby town of ot J |