Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-05 | Page 4 | Influenza Spreads to New Camps and Cities over Nation

INFLUENZA SPREADS TO NEW CAMPS AND CITIES OVER NATION WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 Spanish influenza in-fluenza eoi.timus its rapid spivad both amor.g the civilian population and in army camps. Reports today to thr public health tier vice show td the d isease had become epidemic in many more cities, while. U.T."' new ca ses w-'f reported among soldiers iraining In this country. Besides the New Kr glam! district, the disease now has reached epidemic, proportions pro-portions In New Jersey and also In parts of i Vrmsvlvanla, Maine, IV la ware, Virgin Vir-gin and Alabama. There was no record to show the pneumonia pneu-monia and death rales among the civ ilians, but in army t -imps pneumonia ca jes nea rly don nled, t emg 1 v,M today acaitiht '. i'ai yesterday. Deaths in army ca mps, however, decreased, bein l compared with ,100 the day before. The total number of Influenza cases in the camps now in 17, '.''. pneumonia cas-s lo,4l;9 and deaths 2'K ( amp Kutision, Karis , reported the heaviest, increase in Influenza today with new cases, while camps Jackson. South Carolina, and Sherman. Ohio, c mU reported more than lonrt. Although both campu Dix, N. J., and Grant, III., n ported fewer e ses of Influenza, tho pneumonia and death rates at those points increased with 3o pneumonia ens-f and forty-three deaths at Grant and 17- pneumonia cases and fifty-nln.i deaths at Dix. In the fight against the diseaso among the civil ia 11 population, tho public hea! ; h service has sent physicians to Nashville. Tei in., Norfolk, Va., a nd has calls from West Point. Va., Altoona, Pa., Keilin, N. H, laistport. Maine, Chester, -Pa., and Port mout h, Va.. which will bo filled as sot.n as possible. Telegrams have been seat to all slate officers to tho effect that emergency medical and nuislup,- aid from the public health MU'vice ami the Ked Cross In connection with Influenza, will be supplied only by requests addressed to the sur-con sur-con teneral of tho public health service by ntato health officers. This action, it was explained. in the Interest of the F sic n 1 at ir a nd intelligent handling of th campaign n gainst tho disease. Public hualt h f 1 vice official emphasized em-phasized to-lay that the best way lo combat com-bat Mie disease Is to prohibit public gatherings. This now has been dono in many d 1 tcs and the author it lea everywhere every-where thfi t influt nza t hr- a i ens to become be-come epidemic a'-e urged to take similar act Ion. In Washington toe hi v churches j wrro nsVed not to hold religious services 'until the rli sea se is stumped out, while I all dance halln and army post houses ! we ro ordered clored. ! As a pa rt of Its ca mpa Ign the public , health. iervice has sent to state - and municipal health officers over the country coun-try Hiige.es (tons to the Individuals as to how best to avoid (ho disease. As tho head of the t reasiiry depai'i merit . of which tho public health service is a bureau, Secretary McAdoo tn a statement state-ment tonight, asked newspaper editors to give publicity lo the mutgest lonn.