Show influenza m great rk c f buy annil ill STARTING statistics forty six deaths to every thousand throughout the british isles naw feb 15 A london cable ay la grippe cont iones to rage with unabated violence to such an extent that airee section of the country is almost iu xa absolute state of panic so great ii the alarm that the president of the royal college of physician has com manica ted with lord salisbury Salib bury and the president of the local government lo 10 ird urging the appointment of a royal corn munion far the purpose of investigating tho and the beat means aug the epidemic the idea has been vry favorably received race ived and it i likely that in the courna of a week a cation areca the will be presented to parliament announcing the appointment of such a commission the pros Al lianca yesterday commenced a week 1 I prayer and at st james hall piccadilly with sir arthur blackwood presiding the dath rate in the metropolis is advancing with leaps and blunda bounda according to the weekly report of the registrar general it has now reached the formidable rate of forty six per thousand this is the highest point BO far reached and giva great alarm even in medical circles lest it pass the bounds of an epidemic and attain the dimen biona of an unknown and terrible cleague pl eague brighton IB eve worse ff than the metropolis tha death rate for the week reaching the enormous total of sixty one per thousand in other words the mortals ity of this little ocean resort was higher han that of any of the thirty three large towns f england and wales cn ID the returns twenty tiye hundred bembera of the coiro moiro polita police force are now on the eick list trie epidemic has also broken ou t among the trompa in cantebury barracks sir charles butte the noted judge of tha divorce curt ia oua of the latest victims in the custom service twenty per cent cf the force are on sick leare many of the schools are closed awine to the fact that all tha teachers ar stricken at the meeting ot the gresham life assurance society prof eminent physician and chief medical adviser 0 thy society made some startling statements he said that influenza hd cost the society two ana a half times more docs IB twe deais than cholera had d As to the influence of the disease upon the duration of life he believed that up to forty no ill effect was produced but between tony and sixty biye the expectancy of life ot persons who had been attacked was diminished by fifteen to twenty per cent he doubted whether after sixty five unless it destroyed life at once it leit any trace upon the constitution influenza was a certaro spinal disease from aban to man and it aas pura accident whether the lungs the heart the brain or other eans became in evolved in every country in europe there had followed in its wake local out breaks of spinal meningitis which bal destroyed over ninety ajr cent of those attacked he baw no rason why this disease not at any lime throw off its comparatively benign character and appear in its true malignity to cast tezroe and consternation among the nations of the dunne the past week a number of persons Hy those whose mccu their banu s the reato portion of the day or nigh by aue ot the river chames nave been attacked by the influenza in a somewhat curuta manner the victims first troubled with a nasty blue licked mucus running from afee nose As the temperature rites this mucus be aimes dry and is painful the following day the nasal organ commences to swell and continues to do so until the nose is Bome timea quite three timea its proper aize when it bursts and disfigures the patients face several suBer ers of thin kind have been admitted to the infirmary |