Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-16 | Page 12 | Over 5,000 Persons Die of Influenza in New York City

IB Over 5,000 Persons I t Die of Influenza I In New York City R NEW YORK, Oct. 1C More than (I 5000 persons have died of Spanish in-r in-r fluenza and pneumonia in this city within a month; more than 50,000 have f been ill and the new cases developing If' during the last twenty-four hours fll show a big increase over those report-Is report-Is ed yesterday, according to the figures J given out today by the health depart-Ill depart-Ill 6 ment. Fatalities aro slowly decreasing, F ' however, the deaths from the disease (I I and pneumonia being twenty-five few-i few-i i or than, for the previous twenty-four I hours.