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Show INFLUENZA IS SPREADING Washington, Oct. 2. While reports today to t office of tho surgeon general 3f the army showed decreases de-creases in the number of new cases of Spanish Influenza at army camps, information ccming to the public health service was that the disease was spreading rapidly among the civilian civ-ilian population over the country. The number of new cares In army camps during the twenty-four hours ending at noon today was slightly more than 13,000, a decrease of 1900 from the total reported the day before. be-fore. Pneumonia In the camps also Ehowed a decrease with 876 new casus and 271 deaths. Influenza cases at all the camps now number more than 100,000, with 7645 casts of pneumonia reported since the epidemic began, and 2143 deaths, , Utah Boys Die . Three deaths of Utahns at widely separated army posts from pneumonia Induced by Spanish Influenza are reported re-ported In this morning's casualties. The victims are Scott P. KliuDall of bait Lake, who died at Camp Uyt n,': X, Y.; George P. Iarrow, of Sait i Lake at Fort MoIIenry, Md., and Rudolph Ru-dolph Peterson of Logan, who died at Camp Kearny, California. |