OCR Text |
Show late today, will have full control of the steps to be taken against the disease, which continued to spread today with seventeen deaths and 255 new cases reported. re-ported. One hundred and seventy-six new influenza in-fluenza cases were reported in Kansas City, Mo., seventy-three more than yesterday, yes-terday, and it was said there was no lowering of the death rate. Nebraska Stringent. OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 22. State health officials issued regulations today, to check the spread of influenza, even more severe than the city health orders which have been in effect for several weeks. State officials ordered closed all public gatherings and defined a public gathering as "a group composed of more than twelve persons." Public funerals or church funerals fu-nerals are placed under ban and street car windows must remain open regardless of weather. Crowded street cars will not be allowed. City Health Officer Manning's report for the twenty-four hours ending at noon today shows twenty-six deaths and 150 now cases. The quarantine ban cannot possibly be lifted before November 2, says Manning. Decrease at Camp. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. Wash., Oct. 22. The army base hospital here contains ninety-eight fewer patients today than it contained yesterday, according to hospital reports to camp headquarters. There were fifty-seven fewer influenza patients, these numbering 1133. Charts in the office of the sanitary inspector in-spector of the thirteenth division show influenza gradually decreasing, but some Increase in pneumonia. Eighty-five new cases of pneumonia reported yesterday was the greatest number of cases in a single day since tle camp was established. Lessening of Influenza is expected to decrease de-crease the number of pneumonia cases. Hopes in Chicago. CHICAGO. Oct. 22. Hope for the partial lifting of the recent orders, issued as a result of the influenza epidemic, closing Chicago theaters and stopping all public meetings within the next ten days was expressed by Dr. St. Clair Drake, state public health director, tonight. The situation in Chicago and tne northern north-ern section of the state was declared to te improving today, although the disease is still spreading down state. Closing Saloons. CLEVELAND, Oct. 22. The new regulations regu-lations effective tomorrow provide for the closing of saloons, restaurants and cafes at S p. m. TTTCSON. Ariz.. Oct. 22. Following thft deaths from Spanish Influenza of two men In the students' auxiliary training corps, classes at the state university were suspended yesterday and a rigid quarantine established. One hundred and fifty-seven cases nf Influenza have been reported at the university. Fifty-three of these have teen discharged as cured. EL PASO. Tex.. Oct. 22. A total of 7000 Spanish influenza cases were treated here during the last ten days and 420 deaths resulted from the disease, according accord-ing to a statement issued by the city j board of health today. These estimates included the cases and deaths in the aimv at Fort Bliss. CAMP DIX, N. J., Oct. 22. Successful inoculation of 10,000 soldiers against pneumonia following influenza today caused camp authorities to offer the treatment treat-ment to 10,000 more next week. Although not a man Inoculated has contracted pneumonia the treatment was said still to be In Its experimental stage and not advocated as a cure, but as "a preventive. INFLUENZA IS II IMPROVING Epidemic Has Yet to Reach Its Crest in Many Parts of the Country. New York Curtails Telephone Tele-phone Service Because of Operators Affected. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. A alight improvement im-provement In the influenza situation over the country was indicated by reports received re-ceived today by the public health service, but in many places the epidemic apparently appar-ently has yet to reach its crest. In the far west and on the Pacific coast the situation has not proved nearly as serious se-rious as it did In the east and south. Continued abatement of the epidemic In army camps was reported today to the office of the surg-eon-general of the army. New cases during- the twenty-four hours ending at noon today, totaled 2773, against 3007 the day before, while deaths decreased from 404 to 392. There was a slight increase in the number of pneumonia pneu-monia cases. Army medical officers said influenza may now be said to he epidemic in only-five only-five camps, the others reporting less than fifty new cases each daily. The total cases since the disease became epidemic epi-demic number 292,770, with 15,497 deaths. In the east and south generally conditions condi-tions among the civilian population are rapidly Improving, according to reports to the public health service. In the middle-went middle-went and in the Htates bordering the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and Missouri rivers, abatement of the disease also has been noted, although many new cases ptlll are being reported dally. In California 32,000 cases had been reported up to yesterday. Oregon and Washington also report new cases and Hom deaths. Cut Phone Service. N10W YORK. Oct. 22. The New York Telephone company today suspended service serv-ice In half uf the public booths here because be-cause of a shortage of operators caused by the Spanish influenza epidemic. It was told thnt "000. or about 25 per cent, of the operators are ill. Additional complaints were received today to-day that doctors and druggists are overcharging over-charging influenza patients, and thnt landlords are withholding heat from tenants. ten-ants. An ordinance which wotdd compel landlords to keep thermometers In their houses at 6S degrees Wai Introduced at a meeting of the board of aldermen today. If adopted, the measure will supplement ii similar clause In the. sanitary code under un-der which sevcrn I landlords hnve been 1 1 rested. Meal t it Commissioner Cnpeland a n-nounced n-nounced tonight that he had asked Postmaster Post-master General Hurleson to give physicians physi-cians the frunklng privilege for the mailing mail-ing of reports to health departments. While asserting that New York has passed the worwt stage of the epidemic, Dr. Copoland Issued a warning against tmduo optimism and the dropping of pre-caullonar pre-caullonar y measures. Baltimore Better. BALTIMORE. Oct, 22. With less than 200 new rases of Influenza and 170 deaths reported during the last twenty-four hours, t ho health authorities of the rlty are tnore encouraged. Throughout the state the epidemic continues Htrong with 1089 new cases. Funerals are somewhat delayed, but the workers In the cemeteries have neirly caught up with the numbers of graven ordered and It la no longer necessary neces-sary for relatives and friends of the deceased de-ceased to aid In digging their graves. Cardinal Gibbons and those In cha rge of the prelate' r golden Juhllee has boen or 1 tic tied by the health commissioner for holding ceremonies Sunday at St. Mary's Beroinary, at which foreign prelates were present in violation of the nOnn BSemblftgS rule In force during the epldomh-. The C&rdlnal previously had sharply criticised the closing of the churches. Abating in Denver. mONVKIl. Get. 22.-The Influenza epidemic epi-demic In Colorado had claimed 311 victims and thern ftte MM CSSeS In the state, according ac-cording 1o a report given out tonight hy the still r boa rd of healt h. The roports showed thai S71 uf the influenza cases were new today. A marked aba tement of the epidemic In Denver was reported by the city health aid hnrities. although twenty-four den ths were recorded In the twenty-four hour period ending tonight. The numbor of new cases In Denver reported today numbers num-bers d 222 as compared with 2T4 yesterday. In Pennsylvania. TtAKUISIiriHi, I'a.. Oct. 112.--The stain depH.1 1 1 nen i of hen 1th tonight u nnounced that 13,271 deaths had occurred in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania from Influenza arid Its complications compli-cations sltne October L In the asms period there were 5288 dentlis from pneumonia, pneu-monia, The epidemic was feajd to he subsiding in the eastern section of the state, put steadily Increasing in several Western counties. Kansas City Fight. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. 22. The United States health depftrtmoni tonight took entire charge nf the fight against Influents In Kansas City. Kan. This action waa decided upon ii t. a mooting uf the. ell v commissioners, two of whom in'- in with Influent!, nd followed an Investigation by r. H. J, Cfuniblha, iec retury oi the Kansas board nf heslth. Lleutonanl C. D. Slinlton, who airhud |