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Show : ' S v7aj?iKG ALL M0 - Mortality Amen? Peer of Kcw York Unprecedented, While Other Classes Also Suffer. i . NEW. TORK, March 7. Pneumonia and grippe have spread to such-an ex-" ex-" tent in this city as to be practically epidemic There are at present about 300 cases of pneumonia in Bellevue hospital, and other hospitals have a proportionate proportion-ate number. .. - ' ' ' - ; Pneumonia has attacked persons in ail stations of life. The mortality among the poor is almost unprecedented and the number of deaths among the well-to-do Is unusually large. j , , , ' Tests are being made in several hospitals in this city to ascertain if the srrippe Jbaclllus Is present in the cases diagnosed as influenza. At one hospital 1 the bacillus was found In nine out of every ten of the respiratory cases. Belle-vue Belle-vue hospital Investigators found the bacillus present In about 70 per cent. |