Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-22 | Page 8 | Influenza is Now Decreasing

INFLUENZA l NOW DECREASING Six States Show Improvement in Reports to Public Health Service. WASHINGTON. Oct- 21. Improvement Improve-ment in tho influenza situation In six states was shown by reports received today by the public health service, but fwfntv-tsripn nthor sfntrxi ronnrted the. disease still spreading with many additional ad-ditional cities and rural districts affected. af-fected. Conditions apparently were worse in Pennsylvania, whore it is estimated es-timated 350,000 cases have occurred, with probably 150,000 in Philadelphia. For the first eighteen days of October 14, S05 deaths were reported In the state. In army camps a slight increase in both influenza and pneumonia cases were reported Sunday, but a decrease was shown today with 3007 influenza cases and 76S pneumonia cases, the lowest figures reported sinco the epidemic epi-demic became genoral in the camps. For the forty -eight hours ending today to-day at noon new influenza cases totalled totall-ed G666; pneumonia 2079 and deaths '919. These figures brought tho total of influenza cases sinco September 13 to 290.4-17; pneumonia cases of 46,055, and deaths from all causes to 15,072. States reported Improved conditions today to the public health service were Delaware, George, Maine, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, South Carolina and Tennessee. New cases in all these states aro decreasing. de-creasing. The public health service announcement announce-ment said that it was estimated that ISO, 000 cases had occurred in Connecticut Con-necticut up to yesterday, with 2265 deaths reported. In New York 37 cities cit-ies out of 61, oxcluslve of New York City, have registered 1811 deaths from October 1 to IS, while in New York City there were 646 deaths yesterday. In California 25.000 cases had reported re-ported to October 19; Nebraska reported re-ported 275S cases and sixty-six deaths in sixty towns on Saturday, whilo many new cases were reported in Alabama, Ala-bama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Mex-ico, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Utah and Vashington.