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Show Keeping Streets Clear. CHICAGO, Oct. 18. Back yards must be the retuge of Chicago children at play as the result of a police order issued today as another step in checking the spread of influenza. Earlier in the day Health Commissioner Robertson directed a general vaccination of Chicagoans with antitoxin. Chief of Police Alcock's order directed that policemen put all children off the streets and disperse street comer gatherings gath-erings and crowds of all kinds. Reports received today for twenty-four hours showed an increase in deaths and a decrease in new cases of influenza and pneumonia. The figures were: New cases, influenza, 1917; pneumonia, 402; decrease seventy-six. Deaths, influenza 214, pneumonia 137; increase nineteen. |