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Show GRIP GERM STILL LIVES Dry, Cold Weather Docs Not Serve to Shorten His Rcip. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Despite the fact that the dry, cold weather which followed close on the heels of the last snowstorm was expected to keep grip cases down to the normal level of this time of the year, the compilation of the death records for last week show an Increase in the number of fatal cases. It Is conceded that the dry atmosphere atmos-phere gave every opportunity of not only checking the grip, but thwarting its process. The fact remains, however, how-ever, that the germs have lived through the dry spell. |