| Show INFLUENZA IN LONDON during fourteen weeks persons have died new york jan A dispatch to he new york herald from london says during weeks people have aled from influenza last week the deaths almost trebled la creasing from eight to twenty according to the registrar general among the best known sufferers arc shelborne sir F daxon hartland sir francis jeune sir john bridge mr 0 T and dr morley in the face of the evidence that influenza Is on the increase the doctors will not admit that an epidemic prevails dr sedgwick saunders a medical health of health for london said when interviewed not one twentieth of the deaths reported occurred in my district that Is within the metropolitan area we have not had such a healthy year tor a long time but there must be something to account for the increase in influenza that is a question I 1 am not prepared to go into just now he said supposing an epidemic were to break out Is london prepared to face such an emergency yea he replied in such a case there would be isolation at once there Is ample accommodation in the metropolitan asylum boards hospitals they are splendid institutions with admirable system of ambulance bu lance but just now there Is no epidemic and this Is just the weather to kill microbes mic robes dr alden turner said the increased death rate last week Is easily accounted for it is just the weather when you expect a great increase in the number of deaths the present weather is not the cause of fresh cases of influenza ever since 1889 when we had influenza in this country first we have had it in more or less the same form each winter but never slighter than now |
