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Show Children Must Play In Own Back Yards In City of Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 18 Back yards must be the refuge of Chicago children at play as the result of a police order issued today as another step in checking check-ing the spread of influenza. Earlier In the day Health Commissioner Rob-erLson Rob-erLson directed a general' vaccination of Chicagoans with antitoxin. Chief of Police Alcock's order directed di-rected that policemen shoo all children off the streets and disperse street corner cor-ner gatherings and crowds of all kinds. Reports received today for twenty-four twenty-four hours showed an increase in deaths and a decrease in new cases of Influenza and pneumonia. The figures fig-ures were: New cases, influenza, 1,917; pneumonia 402; decrease 76. Deaths, influenza, 211; pneumonia 137; increase 19. |