Show FEWER CASES OF EPIDEMIC lIC AT NEW YORK I Situation Declared 1 Much uch II Improved Man Many l y Are I Dead at Chicago Br By g Service Now New cw York Oct 20 Reports O. Reports received I rb by the health bureau toda today showed a aI decrease In the number of new ca cases S of I influenza The total for the tho twenty twenty- four tour hours was which was 05 less than for the preceding day The Thc general situation Js Is better bettor to toda today today to- to da day than yesterday said Health Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Copeland but this rainy damp typical pneumonia weather Is very cr bad Our doctors arc are doing doing- heroic he he- heroic work vork So ED are arc the nurs nurses s Steps were taken today b by the board of health to compel all aU landlords of or I apartment houses houses to furnish heat for tenants 1311 Die in Chicago go I Chicago Oct 20 Three O. Three hundred nd end eleven ele deaths due to the Influenza c epidemic epi pl pt- pt demic were reported In Chicago toa today Dr St. St Clair Drake public health director di- di di director I- I I rector of ot Illinois declared that reports I from down state showed no decrease in to the epidemic I Brazil Takes Holiday Rio Janeiro Saturday Oct 13 The Thc The Brazilian government go o nt has Issued a de decree do- do cree that every day Is a holiday for business and official purposes tho the epidemic has subsided |