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Show ll FIGURE IN LU' Dp TOLL Disease Reaches Epidemic Proportions in All Parts of Country. Further Decrease in Cases Is Noted at Various Army Camps. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Spanish Influenza In-fluenza now has reached epidemic proportions pro-portions in practically every state in tho country. In spite of all efforts by federal, fed-eral, state and local authorities, the disease: dis-ease: has spread rapidly and the death tolLias been high in most parts of the -n. r In army camps the epidemic is subsiding:, subsid-ing:, a further decrease in the number of new cases being noted today at the office of the surgeon-general of the army. Reports made public tonight by the public health service show that outside : of Massachusetts, the epidemic is severe throughout New England. Not a single state east of the Mississippi is clear of the disease, and in most of the coast states from Maine to Florida conditions are serious. In Mountain States. The number of cases reported also is increasing in Oregon, Washington and California, while the malady has appeared in all mountain states and is epidemic in most of them, Minnesota is the only west central state reporting the disease stationary, yhile influenza is epidemic in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois. It also is pnidpmir in nil Hip. southern states as well as in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In war-crowded District of Columbia the epidemic is unabated. As a further precautionary measure, the treasury and interior departments today issued orders that no new employees of those departments depart-ments be brought to Washingtou until further notice. The fuel administration, at the suggestion sugges-tion of the public health service, also announced today that as far as possible all engagements and appointments for . onferenees with out-of-town persons during the next two weeks wiU be canceled. |