Show 1 LONDON HAS TilE INflUfNIA AUTHORITIES DENY THAT IT IS EPIDEMIC Nearly Two Hundred Deaths From This Cause In Fourteen Weeks Big Increase Last W kNew k-New York Jan 8A dispatch to the Herald from London says During fourteen weeks 1S3 people have died from influenza Last week the deaths almost trebled increasing from eight to I twenty according to the registrar general gen-eral Among the best known sufferers are I Lord Selborne Sir F DIxon Hartland Sir Francis Jeune Sir Johp Bridge Mr C T Hitchie and Dr Morley In the face of the evidence that influenza is I on the increase the doctors will not admit that an epidemic prevails Dr Sedgwick Saunder n medical officer cer of health for London said when interviewed in-terviewed Not onetwentieth of the deaths reported re-ported occurred in my districtthat is within the metropolitan arr We have not had such a healthy year for a longtime long-time Bu there must be something to account ac-count for the increase in influenza i That is a question I am not prepared pre-pared to go into just now he said Supposing an epidemic were to breakout j break-out is London prepared to face such an 1 emergency I asked Yes he replied In such 0 case j there would be Isolation at once There is ample accommodation in the Metropolitan Metro-politan asylum boards hospitals They I are splendid institutions with an admirable ad-mirable system of ambulances But I just now there Is no epidemic and this j Is just the weather to kill microbes Dr Alden Turne said The increased I in-creased 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 in-fluenza Ever since lsS9 when we had influenza in this country first we have had it in more or less the same form I each now winter but never slighter than |