Show Official Stupidity In New York NEW You Dec 23La grippe was offi daIly ignored at sanitary headquarters in i this city when the case of the Klamreth family who were stricken down with it was reported Surgeon General Hamilton of AVash n ton telegraphed for an official report of the sanitary authorities Sanitary Commissioner Bryant dictated a reply saying say-ing there was no evidence of the existence of an epidemic in this city La grippe however his now reached the officials President Wilson oJthe board of health is prostrated by it Sanitary Superintendent Wing is down with it and half the other officials of the department are suffering from it Unofficially the representatives of the health department say that probably 50 000 persons in New York are suffering from more or less severe attacks of mfl u enza but refuse to give it official recognition recogni-tion la all there are eightyone members of the Brooklyn police force suffering from la grippe today |