Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-18 | Page 9 | Fighting 'Flu' in 30 States

. FIGHTING W yk u STATES Senate Asked for Large Appropriation to Combat the Epidemic. Public Health Service to Provide Doctors and Nurses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. The public health service now Is actively directing 1 lie light against Spanish Influenza In thirty states, in addition to the whole of New England and the District of Columbia. Colum-bia. Particular attention is being given to providing nurses find supplying physi-claflj physi-claflj for those communities where the y&Uyrs are unable to meet all calls made on them. The epidemic continues to spread In many sections. In a few states the number of new cases is showing decreases. de-creases. New cases of influenza in all camps during the twenty-four-hour period up to that time totaled 4 451, as against 5668 the (lav before. Pneumonia cases decreased de-creased from 1893 to 1S00, and deaths were 681, a decrease from yesterday's total. to-tal. Epidemic in Nebraska. Reports on the influenza situation were received by the public health service today to-day from thirtv-three states. Most of these dealt with conditions as they existed ex-isted several days ago and added little to new dispatches previously sent out from the states affected. They showed that the disease had reached epidemic proportions propor-tions In Nebraska and was spreading in California, New York, Missouri, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Iowa, Illinois. North Dakota, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin. Conditions were described as satisfactory In Oregon, Minnesota, West Virginia and Tennessee. To provide additional funds for fighting fight-ing the epidemic, Senator Lewis of Illinois Illi-nois today introduced a bill in the senate to appropriate $10,000,000, in addition to the $1,000,000 already provided by congress. con-gress. The money would be expended through the health' departments of states and municipalities.